ARK Invest's Chief Futurist lists five groups that will give technology investors an edge.
According to Brett Winton, robotics, artificial intelligence, multi-ohmic sequencing, public blockchain and energy storage are key areas because they are all entering the market at the same time.
“We think this is a unique time in the history of the tech economy,” he told CNBC's “ETF Edge” this week.
Winton teams up with Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Invest, to maintain the ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX), which allows investors to buy into the private technology space.
According to the company's website, the fund's goal is to make venture capital offerings for innovative market spaces more accessible to individual investors. As of April 10, it shows the fund's top holdings include Epic Games, known for its online video game Fortnite, and biotech companies Freenome and Relation Therapeutics.
“Our focus is on investing in innovation for the long term and we will support the management teams,” Winton said.
He stresses that it is a strategy that is often not prioritized.
“That's a real challenge, a lot of public market investors don't have that long-term vision,” Winton added.
The ARK Venture Fund is down more than 7% so far this year. However, it has risen approximately 39% over the past 52 weeks.
