VCLO News and Press, Simplify Volt Cloud and Cybersecurity Disruption From 02/16/23

Summary Artificial Intelligence (AI) has garnered a fair amount of hype over the past two months. However, investors may be focusing on the wrong set of companies. In this report, we focus on two areas that we believe are overlooked and offer outsized opportunities: cybersecurity an...

Summary Loosening Big Tech's labor stronghold may help level the global playing field. We believe many of our international holdings will be able to capitalize on dislocated labor markets. International investing offers the opportunity to access markets with technology innovators wh...

Summary As we head into the end of January, technical conditions in major stock indexes are showing a lot of strength. We think a bear market that could easily trim 50% from indexes is in the cards, but timing is everything. We find price action-driven measures more reliable than su...

Summary Fortune 500 decision makers expect a dramatic slowdown in IT spend. Interestingly, cloud spending is expected to fare worse than the average IT spending. In this post, we dive deeper into the drivers of the current underperformance and highlight the medium-term upside potent...

Summary When I think about the lessons learned from 2022, I think the biggest lesson is valuations matter. I do think this is the most predicted recession that I've ever seen, certainly, in my career. Investors of all stripes, whether you're an asset allocator or a stock picker, I t...

Summary In the vast swath of tech innovation that is artificial intelligence, Microsoft has just plonked down a major stake in the ground. It would be fair to say that the multibillion-dollar investment into OpenAI, an artificial intelligence startup and the parent company to ChatGPT, t...

Summary Last year’s market volatility was driven primarily by uncertainty over inflation and interest rates. In last year’s downturn, technology stocks were at the epicenter of market volatility. After years of steady gains, investors now acknowledge that technology stocks...

Summary Expectations for a full-fledged economic regime change may be overblown, but shifts in liquidity, globalization, climate change, and security could accelerate investment in innovation. Economic growth may slow in 2023, but the relative strength of labor, leverage, and liquidity ...

Summary Tech in 2023 likely to perform better than 2022. Recession fears and the tech sector. Can big tech get control of their costs? Some of the biggest names in tech were among the stocks getting swept up in the market volatility of 2022. Will this year be diffe...

Summary In this post, we provide our key assumptions and outlook for 2023. We are relatively more optimistic than most, as we believe that we are already in the mid-late innings of this downturn. We believe that stabilizing interest rates will provide a base for valuations and expec...