Amid a rapidly changing world, where China’s rise as an industrial powerhouse has nations around the globe on alert, we believe that American reindustrialization will be an important driver of investment returns in the decade ahead. Standard U.S. equity indexes are poorly positioned to capture the benefits of this generational opportunity due to their global, technology-heavy composition.
In a new piece from the GMO Event-Driven Team, Doug Francis and Sam Klar discuss the growing supply-demand imbalance in the asset class that has driven focus towards the SPAC boom and away from the opportunity in other investments like merger arbitrage.