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ETFs
15 fundsTwo ways to use funds, a boring broad foundation you can hold forever, and targeted thematic bets when you have a view.
Foundation
5 fundsBroad, low-cost, own-the-market funds. Start here, you're diversified by default.
The entire US market in one fund. The simplest core holding.
The top 100 Nasdaq growth and tech names. The cheaper QQQ twin.
Quality dividend payers. Adds stability and income.
Everything outside the US, developed and emerging.
Broad US bonds. The ballast for when stocks fall.
Thematic
10 fundsOne fund for a whole trend, when you want the theme without picking the single winner. Higher conviction, bigger swings.
A diversified basket of AI hardware and software beneficiaries.
The 25 biggest chipmakers, including Nvidia and TSMC.
Memory chips (SK Hynix, Samsung, Micron). Korea-heavy, a clean AI tailwind.
Quantum computing and machine-learning names.
Robotics, automation, and autonomy in one fund.
The space economy. Actively managed and holds pre-IPO SpaceX, so aggressive and new.
The largest cybersecurity fund, software and hardware.
Uranium miners and nuclear fuel. The cleanest nuclear proxy.
Rare-earth and critical-materials miners worldwide.
Samsung and SK Hynix, memory and AI-chip exposure outside the US.
Core compounders
10 namesThe deepest moats and the most reliable compounding, profitable, dominant companies in growing industries. Hold them like real estate, not like trades.
The dominant AI chipmaker. Its GPUs power nearly all AI training and inference.
Azure cloud, Office, and the OpenAI partnership. AI built into everything.
Search, YouTube, Cloud, and Gemini. A cash machine with a frontier AI lab.
E-commerce plus AWS, the largest cloud and a core AI-infrastructure winner.
The iPhone ecosystem and a billion-plus loyal users. Enormous cash flow.
Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook. Ad profits funding a massive AI build-out.
Manufactures the most advanced chips on Earth for Nvidia, Apple, and AMD.
Enterprise workflow automation and AI agents. Sticky, high-margin software.
Buffett's diversified machine, insurance, railroads, energy, and a cash mountain.
AI software for governments and enterprises. High growth, premium valuation.
Sectors & themes
by themeQuality leaders grouped by theme, the picks-and-shovels behind AI, energy, robotics, materials, and the buildout.
Energy & power
5 picksAI data centers and electrification need enormous power. These names sell that power or the equipment that generates and delivers it.
Largest US nuclear operator. Signing direct AI deals, including the Three Mile Island restart with Microsoft.
Utility with major nuclear + gas exposure. The biggest single beneficiary of AI-power demand.
Gas turbines, grid equipment, wind. Builds the actual generation capacity.
Small modular reactors, still pre-commercial. The leading SMR pure-play.
Solid-oxide fuel cells for on-site power. Real revenue, very volatile.
Semiconductors
5 picksThe chips themselves and the companies that make them physically possible.
Only company on Earth that makes EUV lithography machines. Every leading-edge fab needs them.
Custom AI silicon for hyperscalers plus networking chips. The "AI ASIC" winner.
Chip-making equipment (deposition, ion-beam, lithography).
Gallium-nitride power chips for fast charging and data centers.
Tests chips for reliability. Tiny, lumpy, customer-concentrated.
Memory
2 picksAI is insatiable for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and storage. Every GPU server needs more of it, one of the cleanest AI tailwinds in the chip stack.
US memory leader, one of only three HBM suppliers for AI GPUs.
Pure-play NAND flash storage, recently spun off from Western Digital.
Photonics & optical
6 picksAI moves staggering amounts of data inside and between data centers. Light through fiber, not copper, is how that happens at scale.
Optical fiber and specialty glass. Also tied to the data-center cabling buildout.
Optical transceivers and lasers. Key supplier for AI interconnect.
800G and 1.6T transceiver leader for data-center connectivity.
Smaller, higher-beta transceiver maker ramping data-center optics.
Optical-engine chips for AI interconnect. Micro-cap, pre-revenue.
Photonics and compound-semiconductor materials. Micro-cap, speculative.
AI infrastructure
4 picksEverything around the chip, racks, cooling, AI servers, and the cloud providers renting GPU compute to AI companies.
The bigger, more diversified AI server play. Steadier counterpart to SMCI with enterprise + PC exposure on top.
Liquid cooling and power infrastructure for AI racks. Cooling is the new bottleneck.
AI cloud / GPU compute, vertically integrated. Sells the actual compute that AI companies run on.
Custom liquid-cooled GPU servers for hyperscalers. Volatile (2024 accounting reset), but real demand.
Software & internet
5 picksHigh-margin recurring revenue businesses that benefit from AI without having to fund the buildout themselves.
Cybersecurity SaaS leader. AI-native detection.
Cybersecurity platform consolidating the whole stack.
Digital bank and fintech platform. Profitable now, still swingy.
Social platform monetizing ads plus AI-data licensing. Recent IPO, volatile.
AI marketing and data cloud. Higher-risk, higher-growth, size it smaller.
Quantum
4 picksReal moonshot: computing that could break today's limits, years from payoff. The fund route is QTUM.
The big-tech quantum leader (Qiskit, a real roadmap) inside a stable blue chip.
Trapped-ion quantum computing, a pure-play leader. Pre-revenue, volatile.
Superconducting quantum chips. Micro-cap, pre-revenue, high-risk.
Quantum annealing; the one selling commercial systems today. Volatile.
Robotics & automation
8 picksThe machines, and the parts that make them see, move, and work, from surgical robots to warehouse automation to the sensors that give them sight. The fund route is BOTZ.
Da Vinci surgical robots, ~80% share. The dominant medical-robotics leader.
The largest pure-play US industrial-automation and factory-control company.
Chip-test gear plus Universal Robots cobots and MiR warehouse robots.
AI-powered warehouse robots automating retail supply chains. Huge backlog.
Edge-AI vision chips that give cameras, drones, and robots on-device sight.
Precision force and strain sensors, including for humanoid robots.
Digital lidar, the "eyes" for robots and autonomous machines. Smaller, higher-beta.
Autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, a Postmates spin-out. Speculative.
Defense
3 picksRecord defense budgets + the shift to drone & AI warfare are reshaping who wins. The legacy primes are fine but slow, the modern drone & software names below are the better bets.
Drones and unmanned systems. How modern wars are actually being fought. Real revenue, real contracts.
Drones + private wireless for defense. Smaller and more speculative.
Defense and government AI analytics. Small and speculative.
Space
4 picksCommercial space is finally a real industry, direct-to-cell satellites, cheap launch, Earth imaging, and now SpaceX itself, which you can own directly via SPCX. More speculative, so size smaller (0.5–1.5% each).
Newly public (June 2026, the largest IPO ever). Starlink plus launch dominance, the megacap space play.
Electron rocket (second-most-launched US vehicle) plus the larger Neutron in development. Real revenue.
The largest fleet of Earth-imaging satellites. Recurring geospatial-data revenue.
Satellite-to-phone network, no special hardware. Partnered with AT&T and Verizon. Pre-revenue.
Rare earths & critical materials
7 picksThe physical inputs for everything, magnets, copper, lithium, uranium. Strategic, geopolitical, and supply-constrained. The fund route is REMX.
One of the world's largest copper miners. Large, liquid, lower-risk.
The flagship US rare-earth miner (Mountain Pass), now making magnets. The anchor.
The world's largest lithium producer. The blue-chip battery-materials play.
US uranium producer adding domestic rare-earth oxide processing.
US rare-earth magnet maker building a Texas plant. Pre-revenue, speculative.
Critical-mineral refining via its ReElement stake. Micro-cap, speculative.
Antimony, a restricted strategic metal. Small and volatile.
This is the list, what I watch and research. How I size positions, when I buy, and when I sell lives in the investing guide →