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Aesop or Zeno? AI competition and the economics of staying ahead

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing at remarkable speed, but history suggests that technological leadership does not always translate into lasting economic value. As competitors narrow the gap more quickly, investors need to look beyond headline innovation and ask harder questions about pricing power, returns on capital and the durability of competitive advantages.

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2021 will be a year of recovery. This is not surprising given last year’s economic downturn. If vaccines are being rolled out gradually during the year, we believe the economy will recover, especially those sectors that have been hit hard like travel.
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Asian Growth Update - January 2021

In our last client update, written through the depths of Covid-despair, we observed that real life and the world of markets are seldom so intimately entwined.
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