Hard assets and selective rotation over broad indices

Conviction: 78% · Horizon: 3Y · 2026-04-09
Energy, materials, and commodity-linked markets can outperform in a nationalism-driven capital cycle

Underinvestment in supply and rising pressure to secure domestic resources create durable pricing support for hard assets. Capital should favor producers, exporters, and markets leveraged to real asset scarcity instead of long-duration sectors vulnerable to multiple compression.

Instrument Side Target Reason
XME Long We believe metals and mining assets can outperform because tight supply, long replacement cycles, and strategic competition for industrial inputs support both pricing power and sustained capital discipline across the sector.
EWZ Long Brazil offers liquid exposure to energy, materials, and agricultural strength in a market that benefits when capital rotates toward commodity-producing economies with improving relative strength versus the United States.
Relative strength inside technology and domestic defensives matters more than index direction

Broad index exposure can hide sharp divergence between winners and losers. The better setup is to own niches with structural demand and improving breadth, including optical components, lasers, regional banks, and value-oriented consumer franchises.

Instrument Side Target Reason
COHR Long We believe optical and laser infrastructure can compound ahead of weaker software segments because bandwidth growth, industrial precision demand, and AI-related hardware buildouts require enabling photonics equipment rather than narrative-heavy recurring revenue stories.
KRE Long We believe regional banks can continue to recover as investors rotate toward domestic cyclicals with improving relative strength, cheaper valuations, and greater leverage to local lending and deposit normalization than mega-cap financial proxies.

Themes

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