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DAILY INTEL | 03 November 2026

The world’s largest institutional allocators are weighing in on AI, fuelling the surge of divisive narratives that now characterise the space.

Building up to the mid-terms today, data centres flipped from the sure-thing, guaranteed-return investment as positioned at the start of the year, to a very shaky proposition, financially and ethically. The flurry of political talking points has brought social stakeholder management to the fore.

Amid the wobble, the international equities and PE boss of Australia’s largest pension fund, Mark Hargraves, has said AI’s "picks and shovels", or capex, remain a sound investment. Indeed, the equity side of AI financing is of higher appeal.

In the same breath, Hargraves points out that AI and AI-related stocks now make up a frightening 40% of the global equities market, the most rapid concentration he’s seen in his three-decade investing career. A concentration that is manifesting in private portfolios at a slower but inevitable rate.

It’s this concentration that the credit chief of Canada’s biggest pension plan, David Colla, has highlighted as a cause for caution, warning firms that "wake up" to find AI is now a quarter or more of their portfolio.

Every surge has winners and losers, but the scale here is unprecedented, which means the dispersion will be of historical intensity when it arrives.

Aftab Bose, Managing Editor, Private Equity Wire®

INTEL
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