Energy Transition | AI | Shifting World Order, Mint Finance

Amrutha Raj

Energy Transition | AI | Shifting World Order

Deep Fundamental Analysis

Mint Finance

Mint Finance's investment research blends deep fundamental analysis with technical & quant insights. Investment strategies straddle across multiple asset classes with risk management embedded into every trade to deliver an outsized reward-to-risk ratio.

Mint Finance's research is centered around three key themes. First, energy transition and climate change. Second, artificial intelligence. Third, shifting world order with its impact across politics and monetary economics.

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Like them or despise them. But one thing you can’t do is ignore them. The Super Sevens have become a force to reckon with.</li>
<li>Super Sevens appear homogenous but exhibit heterogeneity and diversity. They have growth stock like features while at the same time provide value stock like defensiveness.</li>
<li>Super Sevens aggregate market cap is a staggering USD 12.14 trillion. They comprise 27% of S&amp;P 500 and 55% of the Nasdaq 100 index collectively.</li>
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Like them or despise them. But one thing you can’t do is ignore them. The Super Sevens have become a force to reckon with.
Super Sevens appear homogenous but exhibit heterogeneity and diversity. They have growth stock like features while at the same time provide value stock like defensiveness.
Super Sevens aggregate market cap is a staggering USD 12.14 trillion. They comprise 27% of S&amp;P 500 and 55% of the Nasdaq 100 index collectively.


[S7 Chronicles 1] Super Sevens Will Continue to Dominate Markets in 2024

Quantitative Equity Analyst, DMA

Charlotte van Tiddens, CFA

Quantitative Equity Analyst

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Event-Driven

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<li>Regulatory risks back in the spotlight, dampening decent year for both counters.</li>
<li>At the end of last year, China’s regulator released a proposal to introduce spending and time limits on gaming (22 Dec).</li>
<li>Tencent was down 12% on the day, Naspers and Prosus followed suit with more aggressive selling, sending both stocks down 17% for the half day of trading. </li>
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Regulatory risks back in the spotlight, dampening decent year for both counters.
At the end of last year, China’s regulator released a proposal to introduce spending and time limits on gaming (22 Dec).
Tencent was down 12% on the day, Naspers and Prosus followed suit with more aggressive selling, sending both stocks down 17% for the half day of trading. 


Naspers (NPN) X Prosus (PRX): A Look Back at 2023, Regulatory Risk Back in Spotlight

Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning, Copley Fund Research

Steven Holden

Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning

Copley Fund Research

Copley Fund Research provide research and data on asset allocation among Global and Emerging Market equity funds.  The analysis details absolute and relative positioning across countries, sectors and industries together with highly granular data on single stock and single fund allocations.  The data is updated monthly with time series going back to January 2011.

Global Research - Analysis of 165 prominent Global equity funds, combined AUM $335bn
GEM Research - Analysis of 127 prominent global EM equity funds, combined AUM $250bn

Asset Allocation - Global and GEM Equity

Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>The Magnificent 7, comprising Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, NVIDIA and Tesla  hit record high allocations among active Global equity funds this year.</li>
<li>Thought of as a standalone allocation, they represent the 2nd largest country weight, but also stand as a sizeable underweight versus the benchmark.</li>
<li>Microsoft's dominates the group, NVIDIA has attracted a new investors this year, whilst Tesla has struggled to gain the same level of trust from active Global investors.</li>
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The Magnificent 7, comprising Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, NVIDIA and Tesla  hit record high allocations among active Global equity funds this year.
Thought of as a standalone allocation, they represent the 2nd largest country weight, but also stand as a sizeable underweight versus the benchmark.
Microsoft's dominates the group, NVIDIA has attracted a new investors this year, whilst Tesla has struggled to gain the same level of trust from active Global investors.


Riding High: The Magnificent 7 Surge in Global Equity Funds

Suhas Reddy

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<li>The Federal Trust Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DoJ) issued new guidelines for mergers and acquisitions addressing modern market realities.</li>
<li>Guidelines are aimed at preventing large corporations in highly concentrated markets from acquiring current and/or potential competitors with a view to monopolising their industries.</li>
<li>The new guidelines give regulators better ammunition to scrutinise vertical and cross mergers, giving them much needed “teeth” to challenge “clever” M&amp;A transactions.</li>
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The Federal Trust Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DoJ) issued new guidelines for mergers and acquisitions addressing modern market realities.
Guidelines are aimed at preventing large corporations in highly concentrated markets from acquiring current and/or potential competitors with a view to monopolising their industries.
The new guidelines give regulators better ammunition to scrutinise vertical and cross mergers, giving them much needed “teeth” to challenge “clever” M&amp;A transactions.


FTC Under Lina Khan Is Armed with Shrewd Regulatory Arsenal Against Anti-Competitive M&A Deals

Pranay Yadav

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<li>First mover advantage is half-truth. For every academic study proving that first-mover advantages exist, there is a study proving they do not.</li>
<li>Engineers at OpenAI, scaled up a special machine learning method using large data sets to create GPT or "Generative Pre-trained Transformer."</li>
<li>Launch of ChatGPT has put OpenAI revenues on steroids with reports suggesting USD 1.3B this year (versus USD 28 million before ChatGPT was rolled out).</li>
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First mover advantage is half-truth. For every academic study proving that first-mover advantages exist, there is a study proving they do not.
Engineers at OpenAI, scaled up a special machine learning method using large data sets to create GPT or "Generative Pre-trained Transformer."
Launch of ChatGPT has put OpenAI revenues on steroids with reports suggesting USD 1.3B this year (versus USD 28 million before ChatGPT was rolled out).


Unpacking First Mover OpenAI. Can It Avoid the Fate of Netscape and MySpace?

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[S7 Chronicles 1] Super Sevens Will Continue to Dominate Markets in 2024

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Naspers (NPN) X Prosus (PRX): A Look Back at 2023, Regulatory Risk Back in Spotlight

A look into how the discounts traded through the year. Naspers outperformed Prosus by a large margin highlighting the merits of the structure...

DMA

Riding High: The Magnificent 7 Surge in Global Equity Funds

Microsoft's dominates the group, NVIDIA has attracted a new investors this year, whilst Tesla has struggled to gain the same level of trust from...

Steven Holden

FTC Under Lina Khan Is Armed with Shrewd Regulatory Arsenal Against Anti-Competitive M&A Deals

Clever business models are essential to outperform which includes astute M&A deals. With regulators getting trigger happy and equipped with shrewd...

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Unpacking First Mover OpenAI. Can It Avoid the Fate of Netscape and MySpace?

At the Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the Maia 100 AI Accelarator which is optimized for Azure. It will cater towards customer's AI demand....

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