Chinese stocks have spent the last five years really testing the patience of even the most hardcore contrarians. Between the property sector struggles, the crackdown on tech platforms, and the constant friction over chip exports and tariffs, valuations have been pushed down across the board.
Google unveiled a suite of new tools to build AI agents aimed at helping companies automate tasks, with its Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform including new features such as Memory Bank and Memory Profile to help agents remember past interactions.
EMLC holds a broad mix of about 507 bonds issued by emerging market governments, all denominated in local currencies such as the Brazilian real, South African rand, Turkish lira, and Mexican peso. Almost the entire portfolio is sovereign debt at roughly 99 percent, so the fund is essentially a pure government credit exposure.
Steve Schwarzman stated that the firm is 'navigating an intensely negative campaign against the private credit sector,' urging a separation of 'fact from fiction' regarding investor sentiment.
iShares MSCI EAFE ETF (NYSEARCA:EFA) tracks the MSCI EAFE Index, covering large- and mid-cap equities across developed markets in Europe, Australasia, and the Far East, explicitly excluding the US and Canada. The fund has been running since August 2001, carries $77.8 billion in assets, and charges 32 basis points annually. For a fund of this size and history, that cost is competitive.
The S&P 500's performance in 2025 marked yet another blockbuster year after performing well in both 2023 and 2024. Many analysts thought that double-digit gains for a third straight year would be too unlikely, but the market ended up proving them wrong. 2026 is off to a great start for the S&P as well, though a correction is certainly overdue at this stage. But can the market prove bears wrong yet again?
The macro factor driving PWB forward is straightforward: enterprise spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure remains robust, and the companies building that infrastructure are printing money. Alphabet's net income surged 35% year-over-year in Q3 2025 as businesses adopted its Gemini AI models and expanded Google Cloud usage. NVIDIA tells an even more dramatic story-its data center business has transformed the company from a gaming chip maker into an AI infrastructure powerhouse, with earnings growth that reflects the scale of enterprise AI adoption.
With $9.6 billion in net assets and a 0.15% expense ratio, the fund provides institutional-grade access to systematic value investing at a fraction of active management costs. The timing matters now because value has sharply outpaced growth in recent months. VLUE posted a 38.25% one-year return through February 17, 2026, more than tripling the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust ( NYSEARCA:SPY)'s performance.
