AI market volatility video: Analysis from David Jenkins, Global Sustainable Equities manager - Brunel Pension Partnership

In the beginning of this week, the financial markets experienced a remarkable volatility, driven by the announcement of the Chinese company Deep Seek on its advances in Artificial Intelligence (IA). This provoked extremely abrupt movements, which affected the actions of the main companies related to recent advances in AI, not only those dedicated to the development of learning models, but also, in a very relevant way, companies dedicated to the …

The most important trend in finance over the past 40 years is the emergence of technological industrial structures in which the winner takes it all. We live in a world of network effects and increasing scale yields. In sectors ranging from PC software (Microsoft), Internet searches (Alphabet), online retail (Amazon) and social networks (Meta) to high-end consumer hardware (Apple), most of the profits and market share have gone to a single compan…

AI market volatility video: Analysis from David Jenkins, Global Sustainable Equities manager - Brunel Pension Partnership

In the video below David Jenkins, Portfolio Manager, Global Sustainable Equities at Brunel, highlights the context and implications of yesterday’s AI-induced market fall. Markets fell significantly on Monday on news that DeepSeek, a Chinese company, had successfully built a powerful AI model. Tech majors bore the brunt of the fall, notably Nvidia. In this video, David highlights the context of the fall and what it illustrates about investing. T…