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Themes
- 01 AI Infrastructure AI infrastructure is the picks-and-shovels of the AI build-out (chips, networking, optical interconnects, and power) starting with optical networking.
- 02 AI-Resilient Investing AI-resilient investing means owning physical, real-world businesses that AI cannot easily copy or automate: mining, freight, infrastructure, and more.
- 03 Allied Manufacturing Supply-chain realignment toward trusted partners (friend-shoring), with South Korea a core node supplying AI memory, batteries, ships, defense, and power gear.
- 04 Batteries & Energy Storage Next-generation solid-state batteries and grid-scale energy storage (ESS), a market BloombergNEF expects to reach about 2 TW / 7.3 TWh by 2035.
- 05 Defense & Rearmament The global rearmament cycle since 2022, led on exports by South Korea, whose Top 100 arms makers grew revenue 31% to $14.1 billion in 2024.
- 06 Robotics & Physical AI Robotics and physical AI is the bet on machines that perceive and act in the real world (humanoids, cobots, automation) as AI moves from screens to bodies.
- 07 Space Economy Companies that build and launch spacecraft (upstream) and sell services from orbit (downstream); a $613B market projected to reach $1.8T by 2035.
Investment concepts
- 01 Google (Alphabet) AI Value Chain The Google (Alphabet) AI value chain lets investors own Google's AI supply chain (TPUs, foundry, optical, networking, servers) rather than just Alphabet stock.
- 02 Heavy Asset Low Obsolescence (HALO) HALO covers U.S.-listed physical-economy companies whose value sits in real assets like mines, railroads, and billboards that AI cannot easily copy or replace.
- 03 Hyundai Motor Robotics Value Chain How Hyundai Motor Group built a vertically integrated robotics value chain, from Boston Dynamics and Atlas down to the Korean affiliates that supply the parts.
- 04 Korea Defense Industry The Korea defense industry theme is long exposure to South Korean arms makers riding a record export boom led by Hanwha Aerospace, Hyundai Rotem, and KAI.
- 05 Korea Manufacturing Core Alliance Korea Manufacturing Core Alliance is a friend-shoring theme covering Korean leaders in AI memory, batteries, ships, defense, the grid, and robotics.
- 06 Optical Networking & Photonics Optical networking (photonics) moves data with light and is a fast-growing AI-infrastructure theme led by Ciena, Coherent, and Lumentum.
- 07 AI Electricity & Nuclear SMRs AI's power crunch is reviving nuclear. The AI electricity and SMR theme covers NuScale, Oklo, Constellation, and the firms powering data centers.
- 08 Solid-State Batteries & Energy Storage Solid-state batteries are the next-gen EV cell and ESS stores grid power, a Korean-led energy theme anchored by Samsung SDI and LG Energy Solution.
- 09 U.S. Space Tech U.S. space tech is the commercial New Space theme: U.S.-listed upstream builders and downstream operators led by Rocket Lab, AST SpaceMobile, and Planet Labs.
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