Alpha Insights: Portfolio Strategy - 30/10/2025

Foreword

I've never intended to initiate this angle of viewpoint on the broader financial markets for Alpha Insights. And to be honest, I am doing so, reluctantly.

No one wants to hear this, its downright depressing. Even makes me feel lousy when i was writing it up.

I was planning to run my first "portfolio strategy" piece on the energy sector. Being in the AI frontier space, and deriving heavily from my own experiences with AI, I wanted to also share what I think, the AI rollout is going to turn out looking like. And even if investors have been priced out of the GPUs/Semi-conductor stocks, how Australian investors can still gain exposure to the thematic.

I had plans to share ideas of the top 5-10 stocks that would benefit from AI. And no, I wasn't going to run a generic piece titled "Top 3 AI stocks", how you cant get any chip/gpu stocks on the ASX, and therefore your only options are... NXT, GMG, MP1. Or for the more brazen ones, include companies like BRN into that mix and call it - highly speculative.

But.

The theses for those stocks, do not eventuate until later on down the road.

Right now however, we face off against something else, nearing at an uncomfortable pace.

It's a rather long read. And I tried to write it as transparently, and as direct as I possibly could. Read it a few times over, and if there are areas that you've found difficult to conceptualise, reach out! I'll be more than happy to break it down for you.

Without further ado. Welcome to Alpha Insights' first portfolio strategy.