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Australia's Biggest Pension Fund To Cut Global Stocks Allocation on AI Concerns (ft.com)

(Friday January 02, 2026 @03:30AM (msmash) from the PSA dept.)


Australia's largest pension fund is [1]planning to reduce its allocation to global equities this year , amid signs that the AI boom in the US stock market could be running out of steam. Financial Times:

> John Normand, head of investment strategy at the A$400bn (US$264bn) AustralianSuper, told the Financial Times that not only did valuations of big US tech companies look high relative to history, but the leverage being used to fund AI investment was increasing "very rapidly," as was the pace of fundraising through mergers, venture capital and public listings.

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> "I can see some forces lining up that we are looking for less public equity allocation at some point next year. It's the basic intersection of the maturing AI cycle with a shift towards Fed[eral Reserve] tightening in 2027," Normand said in an interview.



[1] https://www.ft.com/content/4be26ef3-3f06-44c0-8878-60370336581c



Smart people (Score:2)

by gweihir ( 88907 )

Well, somewhat. To not see the bubble and how there is no way in Hell most investors will even recover their investments requires you to be deeply in delusion at this time.

Re: Smart people (Score:1)

by blue trane ( 110704 )

Do you think they'll switch to US Treasuries?

It usually starts out as a trickle.. (Score:4, Interesting)

by linuxguy ( 98493 )

but ends in a stampede. Some people are going to be left holding the bag... of manure.

OpenAI is projected to have a revenue of a little less than $13B in 2025. That is revenue. Not profit. They didn't have a profit for this year, but instead had a loss of $16B. Their spend commitment is $1.5T!!!!

This lunacy is not limited to OpenAI. People have lost their collective minds. This is not going to end well.

Re: (Score:2)

by outsider007 ( 115534 )

It really more or less is limited to OpenAI. If their investors lose faith it can all go away overnight.

Anthropic might be in a little trouble, but Gemini will be fine and so will Grok. Nvidia is obviously going to be sad that they're no longer printing money.

It's a bubble (Score:3)

by OrangeTide ( 124937 )

Get out as soon as you can. The ultra rich are the one ones that are going to walk away unscathed.

Re: (Score:2)

by OrangeTide ( 124937 )

Trump may be ultra-rich or simply very rich, but what's more important to remember is that Trump is a whore for the ultra-rich, always has been.

Re: (Score:3)

by gtall ( 79522 )

It seems he has his dirty little hands in quite a few places:

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/intera... [nytimes.com]

It is sickening to read. One of his latest gambits, admittedly small potatoes, is his defrocking the committee running Wash. D.C.'s golf courses. He intends his golf company to run them instead. They will squeeze out the common folk and the only ones allowed to play are the ones who can pay the exorbitant fees membership in one of his stupid clubs requires. T

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/31/us/trump-deals-policy-conflicts-web.html

Pop! (Score:2)

by devslash0 ( 4203435 )

...goes the bubble.

Let this news be digested by Wall Street later today. Others will follow suit.

Re: Pop! (Score:1)

by blue trane ( 110704 )

Are you saying the sky is falling?!?

Must be under 48 inches in height.