2025 was a year in contradictions with all-time highs, big market swings, and wavering consumer sentiment. Overall, it confirmed the need for investors to be prepared for anything by building portfolios with tools that can handle shocks and help smooth the ride while still capitalizing on the growth from AI. At TrueShares, we build innovative tools to help fill the gaps in traditional investing and to handle whatever market trends might emerge in 2026.

A Big Tech Alternative

The market has largely been carried by a handful of mega-cap tech companies through the AI boom of recent years. The top 10 US stocks now account for over a third of the overall market.¹ While enthusiasm for AI has driven the indices to new heights, heightened concentration risk could mean that a shock or earnings miss to any one of the top 10 could greatly rattle returns. There have also been whispers of the AI market becoming an overvalued and unprofitable bubble just waiting to burst. 

Whether AI is a bubble or a bullet train, we believe diversifying within the tech sector has its benefits. The TrueShares Technology, AI, and Deep Learning ETF (LRNZ) offers investors an accessible entry point to the AI boom outside of the mega-cap Magnificent Seven and into a more concentrated yet highly diversified portfolio of tech companies from the life sciences and semiconductors to cybersecurity and Internet of Things (IoT). Incorporating stocks with fairer value could simultaneously shield from concentration risk in the indices and provide exposure to AI.

Renewed Renewables

One trend that surprised many in 2025 was the roaring success of renewable energy. The S&P Global Clean Energy Transition Index, for example, far outpaced the growth of the S&P 500 Index by about 3x in 2025. Despite political headwinds, cost-cutting innovations and rapidly increasing global demand have driven renewables beyond what many expected last year. If this trend continues, 2026 may be the year to get in on the energy transition if investors aren’t already.

TrueShares Eagle Global Renewable Energy Income ETF (RNWZ) also outpaced the S&P 500 last year. Target portfolio companies primarily own and operate renewable energy facilities such as wind farms and solar fields, energy storage, and electric transmission assets, which tend to generate stable cash flow streams derived from long-term contracts.

Income Incoming

The value of the dollar dropped in 2025 as money moved out of U.S. assets and into European and emerging markets.² More money has also flowed into money markets this year, with the asset class holding over $8 trillion in the U.S. as of early December, setting a new record.³ Bottom line, investors are looking for ways that the market can provide them with steady sources of income with lower risk. 

TrueShares S&P Autocallable High Income ETF (PAYH) and S&P Autocallable Defensive Income ETF (PAYM) are our latest ETFs that seek to provide income. They bring this popular autocallable income strategy to investors seeking high, stable monthly income. The ETF wrapper seeks to offer predictable income, contingent protection, and built-in hedging, all in a tax efficient single-ticker solution.

In the Event of Turbulence

2025 wasn’t immune to the ups and downs of the market. The same forces making waves last year — trade, geopolitical tensions, and monetary policy — may very well play a role in 2026 because volatility is a feature of the market, not a bug.

Investors should consider retrofitting their portfolios with tools to handle volatility, regardless of the reasons behind the market’s swings. TrueShares offers a robust suite of ETFs to manage volatility in a way that suits an investor’s existing portfolio makeup and desired risk-return profile. The Structured Outcome ETF series offers 12-month rolling uncapped buffers that can be customized into existing portfolios. The Quarterly Bull and Bear Hedge ETFs (QBUL and QBER) harness volatility using options to provide potential positive boosts even when the market tanks. The Seasonality Laddered Buffered ETF (ONEZ) is a single-ticker solution made up of the aforementioned ETFs.

Then we have the Convex Protect ETF (PVEX), an enhancement to the idea of a boost on the upside. PVEX is designed to participate in the growth of U.S. large-cap equities with the potential for meaningful capital appreciation, providing convexity on the upside. On the downside, the fund aims to mitigate against a meaningful portion of the risk posed by a decline in U.S. large-cap equity markets.

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TrueShares holds over 25 ETFs that can act as powerful tools in the savvy investor’s blueprint, no matter what 2026 might bring.

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1. https://www.morningstar.com/content/cs-assets/v3/assets/blt9415ea4cc4157833/blt3fbdf50a6b6032be/6917ce5963445181e043bb4d/2026-Outlook_ALL_FINAL.pdf
2. https://www.jpmorgan.com/insights/markets-and-economy/top-market-takeaways/tmt-in-the-rear-view-how-did-our-2025-themes-pan-out
3. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/record-8-trillion-in-us-money-market-funds-why-investors-keep-pouring-in-amid-fed-rate-cuts/articleshow/125727195.cms?from=mdr 

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*The S&P Global Clean Energy Transition Index is designed to measure the performance of companies in global clean energy-related businesses from both developed and emerging markets, with a target constituent count of 100.

*The Magnificent Seven refers to seven of the largest, most influential, and high-growth tech companies in the U.S. stock market: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla.

*S&P 500 Index: a stock market index tracking the stock performance of 500 leading companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.

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