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The question is not whether AI is real or whether today's market leaders are good businesses.

It is whether investors are becoming too dependent on a single outcome.
In our new Beyond the Benchmark series, Brian Selmo, Co-Portfolio Manager and Director of Research for the Nedgroup Investments Contrarian Value Equity Fund and Nedgroup Investments Global Flexible Fund, shares how one of the industry's most experienced contrarian teams thinks about concentration risk, valuation discipline and finding opportunities away from the market's most crowded trades.</description>
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