From Signals to Strategy: Halftime Guide for 2025

06 Aug 2025

After a strong run in 2024 and a volatile first half of 2025, investors are now facing a very different set of conditions. Persistent inflation, postponed rate cuts, and political volatility are reshaping the landscape but also creating new opportunities.

At Global X, we began the year anchored on four key themes: US exceptionalism, AI monetisation, real assets as stagflation hedges, and valuation discipline. While not all of them have played out equally, the scoreboard still favours those who’ve stayed selective, diversified, and forward-looking.

This is our mid-year scoreboard and the updated game plan for the second half.

In this report we will cover:

Halftime Scoreboard: Where We Scored. Where We Missed
Changing Field Conditions
First Half MVPs: AI, Value and the Economic Hedge
Tactical Substitutions: Shoring Up Defence
Linebacker Core: Commodities as the Hard-Hitting Hedge
Coach’s Final Word: Same Framework but Adjust Formation

Read the full report here.

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