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Strategists at Bank of America have compiled a projection of the biggest, world-transforming themes over the next two to five years, and companies that they believe would benefit.
"The future is arriving sooner than investors expect," Beijia Ma, an equity strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, said in a recent note.
"By 2020E, we see electric and autonomous vehicles, the Internet of Things (IoT), AI and other hyperbolic technologies impacting lives on Main Street. 2023E serves as an inflection point for tectonic shifts including peak labour, the maturing of Gen Y & Z, and grid parity for renewables - while many moonshots [like animal-free meat] come closer to reality."
The team put together a list of stocks they believe would be the biggest beneficiaries of these trends. All the companies are "buy" rated by Bank of America's equity strategists, and have "material exposure" to the themes.