Established in 2002, Strategies Summit is THE portfolio construction strategies conference of the year. Presented each August, the program features 50+ carefully selected leading investment thinkers who will challenge and refresh your portfolio construction thinking by debating contemporary and emerging portfolio construction strategies, for you to consider applying in practice to build better quality portfolios.

The market still believes in the AI supercycle. But it is beginning to ask harder questions about price, funding, margins, energy, inflation and return on invested capital.

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These tutorials relate to the IMAC 2026 lectures and are available to CIMA candidates enrolled in the CIMA Certification Asia Pacific Program 2026.

This week was a test of how markets process conflicting signals. Markets again showed how quickly they are willing to move past geopolitical risk when the AI capital cycle remains intact.

The market remains willing to fund transformational growth. SpaceX proved that. But SpaceX is not merely an IPO. It is a market structure event.

One of the most remarkable features of the current market cycle is that capital is no longer simply chasing growth. Increasingly, growth is chasing capital. The next phase of the cycle may be determined not by the capabilities of artificial intelligence, but by the capacity of financial markets to fund it.

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Markets continue pricing artificial intelligence as a productivity revolution. Increasingly, it is also becoming a capital cycle, influencing how capital is allocated throughout the global economy.

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Markets continue to behave as though AI can absorb almost any macroeconomic shock, largely pricing AI as an abundance narrative. Meanwhile, the underlying system is increasingly signalling scarcity.

Markets continue to behave as though AI can overpower the macro cycle. But underneath that confidence, a different system is emerging.

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With Jerome Powell concluding his tenure as Fed chair, his legacy is likely to reflect a striking irony - it will have been secured by the man who sought most aggressively to undermine him.

The AI boom, energy insecurity, strategic infrastructure, liquidity management and private market implementation are all becoming part of the same portfolio construction conversation.

Private credit markets are under growing stress, fuelling fears of a financial crisis that could spill over to the real economy. But a closer look at the evidence suggests predictions of a meltdown are running well ahead of the facts.

Markets can remain stable at the index level even as risk becomes more uneven, more concentrated, and more difficult to hedge. This week's signals suggest that is now the dominant dynamic.