ARK Client Portfolio Manager Ren Leggi and Chief Futurist Brett Winton discuss why ARK believes investors should consider an allocation to disruptive innovation in 2023 in today’s episode of FYI. Ren and Brett discuss the potential size of the disruptive innovation opportunity, why ARK focuses exclusively on investing in innovation and what some of the major breakthroughs were in 2022 that the market might have missed while focusing closely on macroeconomic headwinds like interest rates and inflation. Ren explains why investors shouldn’t think of volatility negatively, and Brett answers the question: “Why should investors hold innovation strategies through downturns in the market?”
Key Points From This Episode:
- Everything Brett’s role entails as Chief Futurist as ARK
- What the size and scale might be for the disruptive innovation opportunity
- Why ARK focuses exclusively on investing in disruptive innovation
- Why Brett believes ChatGPT was a major breakthrough
- Some of the major breakthroughs the market might have missed in 2022
- Our belief that the market might be too focused on macroeconomic headwinds
- What Brett would tell investors concerned about the inherent volatility in innovation
- Making the case for an allocation to disruptive innovation in an investor’s portfolio
- Why the broad-based benchmarks might be short innovation
- The importance of maintain a long-term investment time horizon when investing in innovation
- What innovation is happening in the private equity markets
- Why ARK never changes its investment philosophy even in market turmoil
- Answering the question: “Why should investors hold innovation strategies through downturns in the equity markets?”
- Why investors should not try to “time” the market
- Ren explains why volatility should not be considered a bad word
- Companies seem to be holding elevated levels of cash on their balance sheets
