21 Risk Management Strategies for AI-Era Portfolios
Developed market portfolios face unprecedented volatility as artificial intelligence adoption collides with geopolitical fragmentation and sticky inflation. Traditional 60/40 allocations no longer suffice—investors must deploy multidimensional hedging strategies.
The AI supercycle demands rotation from infrastructure plays to productivity adopters. Financials and industrials now offer asymmetric upside as AI integration drives margin expansion. Meanwhile, zero-cost collars can hedge tech exposure without premium drag.
Tax optimization becomes tactical. Front-loading charitable contributions in 2025 anticipates higher capital gains rates. Derivative overlays now incorporate volatility skew from crypto assets like BTC and ETH, which increasingly correlate with tech equities.
Institutional flows show bifurcation: pension funds accumulate inflation-linked instruments while hedge funds short sovereign debt via ETF proxies. The smart money builds convexity through options strategies on mega-cap tech and crypto proxies including SOL and DOT.