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MGA Wealth Management LLC
Standing Meeting
November 18, 2024

Attendees:

  • Alec Klungle
  • Michael Brimble
  • Cody Yancey
  • Teddy Anderson
  • Boyd King

Agenda

Color Key: Completed | In Progress/Did Finish | Moved to Next Standing Meeting

  • Bullshit
  • TOUR Update
  • Housekeeping
  • Market Discussion
  • How do we utilize our leverage?
  • Fund Moves

Next Steps:

  • All

Notes

  • TOUR
    • We will book before Christmas
    • Last week of June
    • Teddy will assist in finding a spot

Housekeeping

  • We are going to move these meetings to Monday nights

Market Discussion

  • AI will continue to be the big thing tech companies use to leverage their growth.
  • MSFT, IBM, GOOG, AAPL will be in these headlines doing shit with AI.
  • Where does the value of AI come in? What is going to be the AI “Revelation” in 2025?
    • Chip manufacturers?
    • Hardware/Structure
    • Services
    • AI Software
    • ServiceNow
    • SalesForce
  • The Blue Ocean thing
    • iPhone
    • Things that the iPhone allowed to be built made so much money
  • PLTR
    • First good example of using AI as a service
  • Best value will be brought toward businesses – Agile, smooth, efficiencies
    • How does that come through in the Income Statement
  • Next step will be bringing value to customers, but we don’t think that is going to happen in 2025
  • We should be looking at companies that provide services to other businesses.
    • B2B services that could be impacted by AI efficiencies
    • Accenture
    • ServiceNow
    • PayCom
    • Which of those are going to be able to bring value leveraging AI.
  • Path to profitability for AI products
    • Probably easier for consumer-facing products
  • “Everybody’s an AI company”
  • Financial Providers
    • Can these be companies that leverage AI in a B2B capacity?
    • Companies that can greatly diminish their workforce thanks to AI efficiencies
  • More consolidation that occurs
    • The Metas & Googles are going to start buying out competitors
    • Consolidation of IP among the Mega-Caps
  • Healthcare
    • There is a lot of uncertainty around this right now with the new administration.
    • Bobby Kennedy Jr. is now HHS secretary
  • Nuclear
    • GE Vernova
    • Bought Hitachi’s nuclear business
  • Diamondback Energy (FANG)
    • Good energy play
    • Good oil play
  • With this new administration, there could be some very friendly policies for the oil industry
  • Occidental Petroleum (OXY)
    • Warren Buffet buying this stuff up
  • Self-Driving
    • Trump will be friendly to Elon Musk
    • This will lead regulations to relax on self-driving
    • Google owns Waymo – This could benefit them
  • Cody buys Google
  • Anthropic
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Admiral Fund

  • Do we want to take profits anywhere?
  • Broadcom is a play to load up more on
  • As AI grows, specialized chip producers will become more important
  • Broadcom makes more specialized chips
  • Get out of Intel and move that money somewhere else.
  • Take a little bit of money off the table from WMT and find somewhere else to stick capital with a low beta
  • Barbell Approach
    • Growth part of the barbell is going to be the tech stocks like Microsoft & Google
    • The safe, quality part of the barbell is low-beta stocks with dividend growth stocks.
    • Companies with good entry point. With great yield and a dividend that is going to grow 5%/year for the rest of your life.
    • Dividend Kings
    • Call it 60/40 quality core dividend growth/value growth stock

The Trade Desk

  • Eaton
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Miscellaneous

  • The purpose of hedge funds is not to beat the market. The goal of hedge funds is to provide a guaranteed return above the risk-free rate.
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