Richard Clode, Graeme Clark and Alison Porter, portfolio managers in the UK-based Global Technology Team, discuss why transportation revolution is an exciting new investment theme within the team’s portfolios. The team explains how they are investing within this powerful secular growth theme, which is being driven by the convergence of artificial intelligence and the availability of vast amounts of data.

Topics covered include:

• Transportation revolution is disrupting the automotive industry

• Rationale for its inclusion as a key investment theme

• Investment opportunities in transportation revolution

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Glossary:

Shared mobility as a service: services that provide users with short-term access to transportation modes on an ‘as when needed’ basis.

Autonomous driving: also known as self-driving where a vehicle is driven to a specific target in real traffic without the intervention of a human driver.

Disruptive technology: one that displaces an established technology and shakes up the industry or a ground-breaking product that creates a completely new industry.

Moore’s Law: coined in 1965 by Intel co-founder Gordon E Moore, it is the ability to roughly double the number of transistors that can fit onto a chip (integrated circuit) every two years.