The danger beneath the AI boom powering your pension

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• If you are a tech firm and you spend £100bn on GPUs and you depreciate them on your balance sheet over four years but they actually depreciate over two years, then you have effectively made up £50bn of earnings

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• I don't think there is a huge risk. We're in a very different place to where we were in the internet bubble. The actual earnings are there, a lot of these companies are much more mature with very robust balance sheets

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• Getting your asset allocation right is key. If you are looking at retiring in the next five years you can't tolerate a 50% loss

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• Retirement-age individuals who were still working watched their nest eggs shrink, and many have undoubtedly concluded that it would be prudent to continue the income from working until either the market recovers or they have had an opportunity to rebuild

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• The number of US workers retiring was projected to have dropped by 3% compared with a scenario in which markets didn't crash

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• It is still too early to call the growth of AI-related industries a bubble

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• Anyone in this generation on the cusp of retirement face their retirement portfolio being destroyed if they are overly exposed to equities during a crash

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• The bubble has been talked about for some time but stocks are still pretty close to their all time highs

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• Workers considering retiring in the next five years should look carefully at how their pensions have been invested

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