At the 2025 Capitalize for Kids Investors Conference, Bob Prince, Co-Founder of Bridgewater Associates, delivered a macro presentation focused on global imbalances and the concept of cyclical equilibriums in an unstable economic environment. The conference takes place every year in Toronto and features the top fund managers and investing experts on their best ideas and macro insights.
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2025 Capitalize for Kids: Bridgewater’s Bob Prince
- Global imbalances economically, including COVID, overstimulation, inflation, and tightening, are now coming to an end.
- Asia is a totally different story, with social measures producing opposite outcomes. Now the region is at a reasonable level of balance.
- “Cyclical equilibrium” is positive for assets.
- Artificial intelligence (AI) has reached escape velocity, but are there limits?
- The US is overconcentrated by investors.
- Environment is complex, nonlinear, with unpredictable outcomes.
- Bridgewater is performing well, but the environment remains tricky.

