“Given our expectations for growth in these new technologies, I think we’re going to see some spectacular returns.”
That was the chief executive officer of ARK Invest, Cathie Wood, who gave an optimistic view of returns for the next four years, in an interview with CNBC that published Monday.
Wood’s resilient view comes despite a 48% tumble over 12 months for her flagship ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund ARKK,
“We’ve been in a terrible bear market for innovation,” said Wood. “However, if you look from the bottom of the coronavirus to that peak [of the Ark Innovation ETF] in February of ’21, we were up 358%.”
Wood said the war in Ukraine will likely lead to lots of “demand destruction and substitution into innovation,” given the surging prices of energy commodities especially. The price of U.S. CL00,
She said the technology stocks ARK invests in will be the “future successes” that end up in the S&P 500 SPX,
The CEO said the firms inflows since Jan. 17 have been “significant,” and that many investors have been “averaging down,” which is a variation of dollar-cost averaging, buying more when an asset’s price is low.
Investors who do this, will often “quickly” see a strategy “come back above that average. And if we’re right, significantly above that average over five years,” she said.
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