Best of the Best: Riding the waves of disruption - Anshu Sharma | Loftus Peak

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Dec 7, 2025

Anshu Sharma, co-founder and portfolio manager of Loftus Peak, is a pioneer in global disruption investing, having anticipated trends in semiconductors and AI. He delves into distinguishing long-term disruptions from fleeting fads, outlining Loftus Peak's rigorous 3-5 year modeling process. Anshu explores pivotal themes such as AI's underestimated impact and the growth potential in life sciences. He emphasizes the importance of valuation discipline and shares insights on recent investments, including a promising Chinese EV battery company.

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INSIGHT

Disruption Is Broad And Mispriced

Disruption will roll through every industry and create lasting market winners.
Markets misprice scale because they are myopic and anchored to the past.

ADVICE

Use Channel Checks To Time Trends

Use many channel checks (trade shows, white papers, conferences) to judge when a trend is becoming mainstream.
Aim to be 12–18 months earlier than the market before deploying capital.

ANECDOTE

BlackBerry Short-Term Win

Loftus Peak caught a short-term BlackBerry rally and exited early to lock gains.
They used long-term theme knowledge to judge fair value and avoid staying in the fad peak.

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We’re continuing Best of the Best, our series profiling some of Australia’s top investors and the processes behind their performance.

Today we’re joined by Anshu Sharma, portfolio manager and co-founder of Loftus Peak, to unpack how a pure-play disruption investor thinks about Nvidia, AI, semiconductors, GLP-1 drugs and more.

In this episode:

How Loftus Peak finds long-term structural trends (and filters out short-term hype)
Which trends are still early in their disruption lifecycle
The process edge: building a 3–5 year view, strict valuation discipline and knowing when to walk away

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