Talking Tech with Mike Seidenberg of the Allianz Technology Trust

MoneyWeek editor Andrew Van Sickle talks to Mike Seidenberg, lead Portfolio manager of the Allianz Technology Trust, to gauge the outlook for tech stocks and the wider industry.

The technology sector has come a long way since the dotcom bubble of 2000-2002. The likes of Apple, Amazon and Facebook-owner Meta spearheaded a global stockmarket rally for a decade after the financial crisis. But last year the industry fell into a severe bear market, with the Nasdaq Composite index, a key technology benchmark, slumping by a third.

This year, tech has bounced back, but it is a false dawn? MoneyWeek editor Andrew Van Sickle talks to Mike Seidenberg, lead Portfolio manager of the Allianz Technology Trust, to gauge the outlook for tech stocks and the wider industry. The trust manages $1.3bn and has handily outstripped its benchmark, the Dow Jones World technology index, over the past decade. This webinar delves into the most promising subsectors of the industry (including AI and cybersecurity) and assesses related investment opportunities. Tech remains a sector with a compelling structural-growth story, regardless of potential further turbulence in the short term.

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Andrew is the editor of MoneyWeek magazine. He grew up in Vienna and studied at the University of St Andrews, where he gained a first-class MA in geography & international relations.

After graduating he began to contribute to the foreign page of The Week and soon afterwards joined MoneyWeek at its inception in October 2000. He helped Merryn Somerset Webb establish it as Britain’s best-selling financial magazine, contributing to every section of the publication and specialising in macroeconomics and stockmarkets, before going part-time.

His freelance projects have included a 2009 relaunch of The Pharma Letter, where he covered corporate news and political developments in the German pharmaceuticals market for two years, and a multiyear stint as deputy editor of the Barclays account at Redwood, a marketing agency.

Andrew has been editing MoneyWeek since 2018, and continues to specialise in investment and news in German-speaking countries owing to his fluent command of the language.