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"Pivoting to a cautious macro stance anticipating an AI infrastructure overbuild and deflationary bust, positioning for substantial opportunities in fixed income and equity short sales."
The Fawkes Capital Fund gained 0.70% net of fees in September 2026, bringing three-month net returns to -8.50% and one-year net returns to 36.90%, compared to the Blended Index three-month return of 1.10% and one-year return of 2.90%. Since inception, the Fund has achieved an annualized net return of 16.40% net of fees versus 5.80% for the Blended Index and 7.90% for the All Ordinaries. September performance was primarily aided by a modest uptick in Metasurface Technologies alongside an increase in US Treasury yields, while portfolio positioning is transitioning toward a significantly more defensive and hedged posture. The investment team has fundamentally revised its macroeconomic outlook, moving from a benign environment to forecasting a deflationary bust stemming from an impending overbuild in artificial intelligence infrastructure. Paralleling historical capital cycles such as the dotcom and telecom crashes, effective compute capacity is projected to expand up to 30-fold over two years due to accelerator efficiency gains and architectural advancements. The manager concludes that enterprise labor displacement and consumer demand will fall dramatically short of absorbing the roughly $6 trillion in planned capital expenditure. Portfolio activity is pivoting to position for the unwinding of the capital expenditure cycle over the next 18 months. With data centers facing approximately $3 trillion in debt financing needs amidst elevated sovereign deficits, borrowing costs and credit strains are anticipated to impair non-frontier developer economics. Fawkes Capital is actively identifying substantial short opportunities across overextended technology supply chain equities while preparing to capture meaningful upside in sovereign fixed income as deflationary pressures take hold.
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