Tema ETFs Insights
The Competitive Techscape:
Dispelling the Monopoly Narrative
Can the technology sector give rise to monopolies?
One of the hotly debated topics in investing is whether the technology sector can give rise to monopolies. With big tech getting bigger and the recent landmark anti-trust lawsuits against them, investors would be forgiven to answer with a resounding yes.
Yet, to understand monopolistic power it is important to analyze companies and industries from the lends of the key sources of competitive advantage. This gives surprising results.
We subject the tech space to monopoly criteria tests:
- Network effects
High switching costs
Economies of scale
Regulation
Non-replicable physical assets
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Important Risks
Diversification does not ensure profits or prevent losses.
Investing involves risk including possible loss of principal. There is no guarantee the adviser’s investment strategy will be successful.
Sector Focus Risk: The Fund may invest a significant portion of its assets in one or more sectors, including Engineering and construction, Financial Sector, FinTech, Industrials and Infrastructure, and thus will be more susceptible to the risks affecting those sectors than funds that have more diversified holdings across several sectors.
The success of the Fund’s investment strategy depends in part on the ability of the companies in which it invests to maintain proprietary technology used in their products and services. Companies in which the Fund invests will rely, in part, on patent, trade secret and trademark law to protect that technology, but competitors may misappropriate their intellectual property, and disputes as to ownership of intellectual property may arise. Similarly, if a company is found to infringe upon or misappropriate a third-party’s patent or other proprietary rights, that company could be required to pay damages to such third-party, alter its own products or processes, obtain a license from the third-party and/or cease activities utilizing such proprietary rights, including making or selling products utilizing such proprietary rights. These disputes and litigations may be detrimental to performance.
Investing in foreign and emerging markets involves risks relating to political, economic, or regulatory conditions not associated with investments in U.S. securities and instruments. In addition the fund is exposed to currency risk.
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