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Alger Capital Markets Outlook: Spring 2026

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Dan Chung, CFA;

Chief Executive Officer
Chief Investment Officer
Portfolio Manager

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Brad Neuman, CFA;

Senior Vice President
Director of Market Strategy

Is today’s focus on geopolitical risk obscuring powerful secular changes driven by innovation that may matter more for markets over time?

Will conflict in the Middle East reignite inflation and keep interest rates higher for longer, pushing the economy into a significant slowdown? Or is today’s focus on geopolitical risk obscuring powerful secular changes driven by innovation that may matter more for markets over time?​

​Click below to view our Capital Markets presentation.​

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KEY OBSERVATIONS AND THEMES​​

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Bull vs. Bear ​
Will inflation, challenging affordability, and a weak labor market pressure consumer spending and stock prices? Or will business investment, driven by AI innovation, onshoring, and tax incentives, drive earnings and stocks higher?
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Long-Term Investing​
Regardless of how the short-term macroeconomic situation evolves, the long-term outlook of the economy and equity investing is very bright, in our view.
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Artificial Intelligence
We believe AI is the most important technology of our lifetimes, driving productivity, economic growth and investment opportunities.
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Enduring Themes
Secular investment trends may transcend economic volatility, politics, and central bank actions, producing compelling investment opportunities over the long-term.
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Style Wars
Powerful structural forces may keep the long-term trend of growth outperformance intact, in our view.
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Investing Outside the U.S.
In many areas of innovation, leaders exist outside the U.S. and often trade at a discounted valuation to their U.S. peers, potentially offering attractive investment opportunities.
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Risk Disclosures: Investing in the stock market involves risks, including the potential loss of principal. Growth stocks may be more volatile than other stocks as their prices tend to be higher in relation to their companies’ earnings and may be more sensitive to market, political, and economic developments. Foreign securities and Emerging Markets involve special risks including currency fluctuations, inefficient trading, political and economic instability, and increased volatility. Past performance is not indicative of future performance. Investors whose reference currency differs from that in which the underlying assets are invested may be subject to exchange rate movements that alter the value of their investments.

Companies involved in, or exposed to, AI-related businesses may have limited product lines, markets, financial resources or personnel as they face intense competition and potentially rapid product obsolescence, and many depend significantly on retaining and growing their consumer base. These companies may be substantially exposed to the market and business risks of other industries or sectors, and may be adversely affected by negative developments impacting those companies, industries or sectors, as well as by loss or impairment of intellectual property rights or misappropriation of their technology. Companies that utilize AI could face reputational harm, competitive harm, and legal liability, and/or an adverse effect on business operations as content, analyses, or recommendations that AI applications produce may be deficient, inaccurate, biased, misleading or incomplete, may lead to errors, and may be used in negligent or criminal ways. AI companies, especially smaller companies, tend to be more volatile than companies that do not rely heavily on technology.

Investing in innovation is not without risk and there is no guarantee that investments in research and development will result in a company gaining market share or achieving enhanced revenue. Companies exploring new technologies may face regulatory, political or legal challenges that may adversely impact their competitive positioning and financial prospects. Developing technologies to displace older technologies or create new markets may not in fact do so, and there may be sector-specific risks. There will be winners and losers that emerge, and investors need to conduct a significant amount of due diligence on individual companies to assess these risks and opportunities.

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The following positions represented the noted percentages of firmwide assets under management as of January 31, 2026: NVIDIA Corporation, 10.63%; Microsoft Corporation, 7.62%; Alphabet, Inc., 4.68%; Intel Corporation, 0%; Amazon.com, Inc., 6.30%; Meta Platforms, Inc., 4.57%; Oracle Corporation, 0.01%; AT&T, Inc., 0%; and Verizon Communications Inc., 0.02%.

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