Outlook 2026 - Unprecedented Times, Exceptional Portfolios
Markets have proven resilient in 2025, but the restructuring of the global political and economic order necessitates that wealth managers adapt portfolios to address major shifts in how and where business is done. Tariffs have become a primary weapon to restructure trade and secure other goals. The transactional nature of American foreign policy has upended long-standing alliances. The Federal Government has used regulatory and legal threats to directly influence US and global business leaders.
Against this unprecedented backdrop, CIO Group aims to emerge as a valuable and timely expert resource for investors. Our unique platform, combining exceptional investment analysis with the precision of AI-enabled data analytics, allows us to build what we expect to be resilient, forward-looking, portfolios.
Our COLOR technology allows us to make entire client portfolios far more efficient, reducing expenses, lowering tax burdens and increasing cash yields, while increasing the quality and focus of every portfolio asset. CIO Group is built to work in partnership with CIOs, advisors and other asset managers. We do this by sharing information in the service of our clients.
Artificial intelligence is driving profound changes in how businesses operate. Fintech is at the forefront of many of these changes. Entirely new personal investing tools facilitating trading in equities, commodities and crypto have upended traditional formats. For CIO Group, AI and the availability of novel, sophisticated technologies have enabled us to build a state-of-the-art platform from scratch. We aim to create better client experiences and opportunities to drive efficiencies that benefit investors directly.
3 STEPS TO ACTIVE ASSET ALLOCATION
We believe investors need to understand the true sources of economic growth. Breakthroughs in technology and improvements in the organization of resources have solely driven increased per-capita living standards since the Stone Age.
PORTFOLIO OBSERVATIONS ENTERING 2026
SUMMARY OF OUR US ECONOMIC OUTLOOK FOR 2026
The Outlook for 2026 & Beyond
Deep Dive into Alts, VC & Digital Assets
PEACE, PROSPERITY OR CONFLICT. OPPORTUNITY
Descendants of those who fought World War II have lived in an unprecedented time of human development and relative peace. In that context, the threat of change to the world order - with the potential for global chaos and war - is highly unsettling. Will leaders including Trump, Putin, Xi or others fundamentally break the detente of the past 80 years? Will government control overwhelm free enterprise and innovation? Will macroeconomic policy fail to cushion destabilizing technological change?
These are large questions to be answered in coming years. Yet, merely facing such critical questions does not tell us how to invest. This is why we have developed our CIO Group strategic framework for investing.
