Click here or press enter for the accessibility optimised version Allianz Technology Trust PLC Annual Financial Report 31 December 2025 Investment Objective Allianz Technology Trust PLC (‘the Company’) invests principally in the equity securities of quoted technology companies on a worldwide basis with the aim of achieving long-term capital growth in excess of the Dow Jones World Technology Index (sterling adjusted, total return) (the ‘benchmark’). Investment Policy The investment policy of the Company is to invest in a diversified portfolio of companies that use technology in an innovative way to gain competitive advantage. Particular emphasis is placed on companies that are addressing major growth trends with innovation that replaces existing technology or radically changes products and services or the way in which they are supplied to customers. What constitutes a technology stock Technology has become a vast and diverse sector. It encompasses those companies that sell technology solutions – from cloud storage to component manufacturers to software developers – but also those for whom technology is an intrinsic part of their business – for example, the car makers or ecommerce groups using technology to gain a competitive advantage. In short, technology stocks may sit across multiple sectors, including healthcare, industrials or financial services. As technology becomes ever more pervasive, the lines between technology companies and significant adopters are increasingly blurred. Even where companies aren’t selling technology, technology may be intrinsic to their success as a company. More companies are becoming technology companies as disruptive innovation brings change and displaces incumbent market leaders. The challenge is to understand not only current technologies, but also future trends and the likely effects. Asset allocation Voya Investment Management Co LLC (the Investment Manager) does not target specific country or regional weightings and aims to invest in the most attractive technology shares on a global basis. The lead portfolio manager aims to identify the leading companies in emerging technology growth sub- sectors. The investment team seeks to find opportunities in mid and large cap technology shares. Risk diversification The Company aims to diversify risk and no holding in the portfolio will comprise more than 15% of the Company’s assets at the time of acquisition. The Company aims to diversify the portfolio across a range of technology sub-sectors. Key Information Gearing In normal market conditions gearing will not exceed 10% of net assets but may increase to 20%. The Company’s Articles of Association limit borrowing to one quarter of its called up share capital and reserves. As at 31 December 2025 there was no borrowing facility in place. Liquidity In normal market conditions the liquidity of the portfolio, that is the proportion of the Company’s net assets held in cash or cash equivalents, will not exceed 15% of net assets but may be increased to a maximum of 30% of net assets. Derivatives The Company may use derivatives for investment purposes within guidelines set down by the Board. Foreign currency The Company’s current policy is not to hedge foreign currency. Benchmark One of the ways in which the Company measures its performance is in relation to its benchmark, which is an index made up of some of the world’s leading technology companies. The benchmark used is the Dow Jones World Technology Index (sterling adjusted, total return). The Company’s strategy is to have a concentrated portfolio which is benchmark aware rather than benchmark driven. The Company has tended to have a significantly higher than benchmark allocation to high growth, mid cap companies which are considered to be the emerging leaders in the technology sector. The lead portfolio manager believes that the successful identification of these companies relatively early on in their growth stages offers the best opportunity for outperformance over the long term. Click here or press enter for the accessibility optimised version Financial Highlights Net asset value (NAV) per Ordinary share +24.7% 2025 571.7p 2024 458.6p Ordinary share price +25.8% 2025 527.0p 2024 419.0p Benchmark +20.0% 2025 4,425.3 2024 3,688.0 Net asset value (NAV) per Ordinary share (p) Shareholders' funds (£m) Ordinary share price (p) Premium (discount) of Ordinary share price to NAV per share (%) Performance against benchmark1 NAV versus benchmark (%) Performance against sector average1 ____ Allianz Technology Trust – NAV – undiluted ____ Dow Jones World Technology Index ____ (sterling adjusted, total return) ____ Morningstar EAA Fund Sector ____ Equity Technology peer group 1 10 years to 31 December 2025. Rebased to 100 at 1 December 2015. Source: AllianzGI/Datastream. The Alternative Performance Measures (APMs) can be found here. Financial summary As at 31 December 2025 As at 31 December 2024 % change Net Asset Value per Ordinary Share 571.7p 458.6p +24.7 Ordinary Share Price 527.0p 419.0p +25.8 Discount of Ordinary Share Price to Net Asset Value (7.8%) (8.6%) Dow Jones World Technology Index (sterling adjusted, total return) 4,425.3 3,688.0 +20.0 Shareholders' Funds £2,029m £1,747m +16.1 For the year ended For the year ended Open full table in browser: https://allianzgi.turtl.co/story/att-annual-financial-report-2025/page/2/2 Five year performance summary As at 31 December 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 Net Asset Value per Ordinary Share 571.7p 458.6p 338.2p 231.0p 347.9p Ordinary Share Price 527.0p 419.0p 303.5p 210.0p 352.5p (Discount) premium of Ordinary Share Price to Net Asset Value (7.8%) (8.6%) (10.3%) (9.1%) 1.3% Open full table in browser: https://allianzgi.turtl.co/story/att-annual-financial-report-2025/page/2/2 1 As defined in the APMs here. Click here or press enter for the accessibility optimised version Chairman's Statement A good year, despite the geopolitical backdrop 2025 saw its fair share of volatility resulting from the febrile global geopolitical backdrop and sporadic bouts of nervousness surrounding the valuations of the listed technology companies the Trust invests in. Nonetheless, it has been a positive year for us, and one that I am happy to be reporting on. Performance I am pleased to report that ATT has once again delivered a strong positive absolute return in its Net Asset Value of +24.7%. Our benchmark index, the Dow Jones World Technology Index, rose +20.0%, so in relative terms this represents an extremely strong 4.7 percentage point outperformance for the Trust. As the discount also narrowed slightly over the year, the share price total return for shareholders was marginally higher at +25.8%. Regarding drivers, it is interesting to note the strong impact of our differentiated strategy – not holding the benchmark equivalent weights in the very largest companies and instead looking for opportunities further down the market capitalisation spectrum. This year we can no longer say the benchmark was wholly driven by ‘Mag 7’ exceptionalism, though those companies still featured. Nvidia and Alphabet were the largest contributors to the benchmark’s performance, with Microsoft third and Meta rounding out the top ten contributors. Apple however was lacklustre, yielding a barely positive return. Our outperformance came from holding higher weights in companies such as Micron Technology, Lam Research, Celestica, Robinhood Markets and Amphenol. We hold well over benchmark weights in the former two which respectively focus on computer memory and semiconductor manufacturing equipment production. The last three – involved in high-tech electronics manufacturing, electronic trading and specialist interconnectors – are not part of our benchmark but are highly exposed to strong secular technology growth themes. Of the Magnificent 7 companies in the benchmark, the maths can become interesting. As noted, Nvidia was the largest contributor to the benchmark return, its winning Tim Scholefield Our outperformance came from holding higher weights in companies such as Micron Technology, Lam Research, Celestica, Robinhood Markets and Amphenol. contribution the result of a dominant 14%-plus index weight and its respectable 30% return. We maintained slightly less than a 10% weight during the year. In contrast, Micron Technologies returned around +216% but only constitutes around 0.6% of the index (we owned a 2.5% position on average). In longer ‘compound’ performance terms, 2025’s +24.7% return comes on the back of 2024’s +35.6 % and 2023’s +46.4%, a solid +106.7% return over the past three financial years, representing a +2.7 percentage point outperformance of the benchmark index over that time. Of course, those with a longer memory will point out 2022’s -33.6%. The point I make is twofold – the volatility associated with the tech sector can be painful, but the rewards when they do come have also been substantial. This is the balance one has to remember when investing in tech. Discount and buybacks Given these impressive returns, it can be difficult to rationalise the persistent discount to Net Asset Value in the price at which the Company’s shares have been trading. The wider environment for investment trusts may have a bearing – overall levels of discounts across all trusts remain generally elevated when compared to history. For tech companies a degree of caution over the sector’s short term prospects following a period of very strong performance may also have provided a headwind in 2025. We hope that shareholders will remember that our Investment Manager’s primary focus is to extract the best returns over the long term from this tremendously exciting sector while reducing exposure to risk, which should help investors worry less about short term newsflow and focus more on their investment returns compounding over time. Beyond sales and marketing efforts to encourage demand, the other mechanism by which the Board can exert some influence on the discount is by buying back the Company’s shares. The Board’s policy in respect of buybacks is unchanged. We would consider buying back shares when the discount is consistently over 7% and we judge it appropriate to do so given the prevailing market backdrop. Over the year to 31 December 2025, a total of 26,088,876 shares were bought back, for an aggregate value of £124,993,000. The Company traded at an average discount of 9.8% over the period. We ended 2024 at a discount of 8.6% and were pleased to end 2025 at a slightly lower discount of 7.8%. Since the end of the financial year and up to 11 March 2026 the Company bought back a further 4,025,723 shares for an aggregate value of £21,364,000. Our Investment Manager’s primary focus is to extract the best returns over the long term from this tremendously exciting sector while reducing exposure to risk. It may be easy to suppose that buybacks should be used to initiate a ‘zero discount policy’ as some investment trusts have chosen to do. We view them differently, as a tool to help reduce discount volatility. Moving too far beyond this however risks overly interfering with the permanent capital pool that the Investment Manager works with – a key benefit of investment trusts over open-ended vehicles over the long term. We believe that a balanced approach with that long term view on shareholder value is the right one to take. To that end, at the forthcoming AGM, the Board will once again seek authority to buy back up to 14.99% of the shares in issue. Investment Company of the Year Awards I’m delighted to report that the strong three-year performance noted above, along with recognition of our differentiated strategy and ongoing drive for consistent shareholder returns, was once again recognised by ATT being named ‘2025 Investment Company of the Year’ in the ‘Technology’ category at Investment Week’s prestigious awards in November 2025. The geopolitical backdrop For much of 2025 there was considerable uncertainty. The macroeconomic environment was generally supportive and the year started with some positivity remaining from the inauguration of President Trump on the basis that he had been fairly pro-business in his first term. The ‘mic-drop’ moment came on 2 April with ‘Liberation Day’, when tariffs on imported goods were proposed against most countries outside of the US. Markets reacted strongly. Tech was by no means immune, with multi- jurisdictional supply chains woven into the very fabric of the industry. However, the nervousness was short lived. US politics hasn’t been the only driver of geopolitical pressure. War still rages in Ukraine. Israel and Palestine moved towards peace but it remains fragile. Against this background though, as a key enabler of modern life, demand for technology continues to accelerate and technology companies have carried on innovating, growing and ultimately justifying their valuations. The benefits of a differentiated approach With the dominance of the largest tech companies over recent periods, it has been seemingly ‘easy’ to achieve performance with lower-cost investment vehicles, like passive funds and ETFs. But that misses the point. ATT has an approach of focusing lower down the capitalisation scale, in the mid- and large-cap segments. Over time, despite mega-cap tech stocks having dominated, ATT’s differentiated approach has provided Over time, despite mega- cap tech stocks having dominated, ATT’s differentiated approach has provided strong compound outperformance versus the index from its actively managed portfolio. strong compound outperformance versus the index from its actively managed portfolio. Risk (particularly concentration risk) can be somewhat esoteric, especially when those very large stocks do not suffer any apparent issues – but the point is sound. Our approach is to provide shareholders with a diversified portfolio where risks are spread and not excessively concentrated in a small number of dominant holdings. We therefore avoid the concentration risk that results from a passive approach to portfolio construction which slavishly replicates index weightings. Moreover, sudden or excessive falls in company share prices can create attractive entry points for bottom-up active investors with a longer term investment horizon – a case of opportunity emerging out of market overreaction. The mechanism to mitigate concentration risk as far as possible (while looking at the smaller up-and- coming companies) is a key element we provide for shareholders. We feel ATT’s record of active fund management speaks for itself and demonstrates both the benefits of our differentiated approach and the advantages of an investment team located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Why San Francisco, the Bay Area, Silicon Valley? Our Lead Portfolio Manager, Mike Seidenberg, believes there is something special about a ‘whites of the eyes’ conversation, and not just a video call. The advantage lies in the physicality of the access – he values the chance to see the office, some elements of operations and access to line managers as well as senior management – as it gives him a better feel for how an organisation is truly operating. Being able to experience, and therefore assess, the corporate culture at first hand is a significant advantage. Our manager, having come from industry himself, really values that insight. On top of that, the unique scale of the Bay Area ecosystem allows the investment team to assimilate new tech themes and identify beneficiaries rapidly and effectively. AI and beyond My statement doesn’t need a lengthy section dedicated to AI. We have covered the topic in detail previously, and Mike Seidenberg gives more of his team’s own thoughts on the topic in the report on pages 7 to 9. Suffice it to say that there has been no material challenge to the narrative around AI – it is truly transformational, not just within the tech sector, but for pretty much everyone and everything. It is speed of adoption, ethics and monetisation which are valid areas of debate. Parallels are often drawn to the rise of the internet – the companies leading the charge at the time weren’t necessarily the longer-term winners and that could be the same with AI. The skill for investors will be making money from this incredible trend while maintaining a balanced perspective on risk. Your Investment Manager’s focus is not to get carried away on the back of market groupthink, but to look for opportunities with genuine appreciation potential for our shareholders. So, what comes after AI? Although the technology has been around for some time, we now seem to be closer than ever to the emergence of quantum computing as a practical technology. Where conventional computers process information using bits, quantum computers use qubits, which can hold both "on" and "off" states simultaneously. This property allows them to explore multiple solution pathways in parallel, making them extraordinarily powerful for solving problems involving quantum physics, such as molecular interactions. This capability is already attracting serious attention from leading pharmaceutical companies, though the opportunity extends well beyond pharmaceuticals, into materials science and other fields. While fully functioning quantum computers could still be some time away, the pace of innovation is rapid. Another technology which is not new but penetrating ever quicker into mature applications is blockchain. While the technology has attracted investor attention for some time through cryptocurrency speculation, the more significant opportunity lies in its emerging role as core enterprise infrastructure. After years of pilot projects, blockchain has reached a maturity level where it is now being deployed for specific, high-value business problems – particularly those involving multiple parties who need to share data without fully ‘trusting’ each other. Stablecoins are transforming cross-border payments, asset managers are beginning to ‘tokenise’ treasury products, Walmart is tracking products on blockchain, and Maersk and Citibank have automated trade finance guarantees using smart contracts. The costs of running your Company Your Board has maintained close attention to the costs of running the Company to ensure they are competitive. The Company’s Ongoing Charges Figure (OCF) has fallen marginally to 0.62% (2024: 0.64%). I am pleased to report that the Company continues to have the lowest OCF within its AIC peer group (Technology & Technology Innovation). The OCF excludes any performance fee due to the Investment Manager. Despite outperforming the index in the year there remains brought forward underperformance to offset. As a consequence no performance fee was earned. The board reviewed the performance fee calculation in the year, and considering the increased size of the Company, negotiated a reduction in the percentage performance fee cap from 1.75% to 1.25% of the average Net Asset Value. This took effect from 1 January 2026. Continuation vote In accordance with our Articles of Association, shareholders will be asked to vote on the continuation of the Trust at this year's AGM. In view of ATT’s excellent long-term performance record and our confidence in the Investment Manager to be able to maintain a portfolio giving differentiated exposure to transformative technologies well into the future, the Board strongly encourages you to vote in favour of the resolution. Annual General Meeting (AGM) arrangements This year’s AGM will be held on 23 April 2026 at 2.30pm. As with previous years, the AGM will be a hybrid meeting, meaning shareholders can either attend physically or online. We strongly encourage all shareholders to submit their votes by the deadline of 21 April 2026. Those shareholders attending virtually will be able to view the AGM and submit questions electronically. The Board encourages shareholders to attend the AGM if possible. A presentation by the lead portfolio manager will be made at the start of the meeting. For those unable to attend, a recording of the AGM will be posted to the Company’s website. The Board looks forward to welcoming shareholders to this year’s event. Outlook One thing is certain – we are very likely to see ongoing volatility. Firstly, it is likely within the sector as investors continue to get over-excited and then over-fearful in turn. An AI ‘Bubble’ has been called multiple times this past year, and the market has reacted accordingly. There are two camps emerging – those that believe we are seeing valuations starting to overheat, and those that see enough evidence of AI-driven revenue or margin improvement to validate higher valuations today. You can read our Investment Manager’s detailed view later in this report, but suffice it to say here that while the onward path is unlikely to be monotonically upward, with times of investor retreat very likely, Mike and his team do not view the current scenario as bubble territory. Volatility will also likely be driven from outside the sector by an increasingly fraught geopolitical environment. A new world order appears to be emerging, and disagreements and posturing are becoming increasingly uncomfortable, and could spill into wider global conflict with profound market implications. Any volatility can be both good and bad for investors. Certainly, it never feels comfortable while experiencing it live – but for the seasoned, dedicated and attuned investor, therein lies opportunity. One of the key skills of our Investment Manager is to navigate the complexity of the macro environment as it melds itself with the day-to-day business of tech firms. Your Trust provides a vehicle to give access to this exciting sector, while providing the reassurance of a highly experienced, investment management team. Tech firms will carry on innovating, growing and selling products and services and demand for those products and services will continue to grow. The signals remain strong for improving revenue growth and the macroeconomic environment looks like it should be supportive. We will continue to ensure the Trust follows its primary objective of generating long- term returns for shareholders from skilful selection of individual businesses in this tremendously exciting sector. Tim Scholefield Chairman 13 March 2026 Tech firms will carry on innovating, growing and selling products and services and demand for those products and services will continue to grow. The signals remain strong for improving revenue growth and the macroeconomic environment looks like it should be supportive. Click here or press enter for the accessibility optimised version Why invest in technology? After two decades of strong growth, few investors will need to be persuaded of the case for technology. It has been the dominant growth engine for stock markets and the broader economy. Strong share price returns are not an accident, but rather a function of the superior earnings potential of technology companies that have an ability to build and sustain new markets unparalleled in any other industry. Growth The Nasdaq Composite has seen a cumulative 10 year return of 364%, or an annualised return of 16.6%. The technology sector has achieved this return without exhibiting greater volatility than other major sectors. This growth is inherent in technology. It consistently disrupts existing industries and creates new markets. In recent years, we have seen multiple industries transformed by technology. In parts of the healthcare industry, for example, as we look to the future, the key determinant of the success will be a company’s mastery of technology, rather than its master of mechanics. We see a similar phenomenon in payment systems. Cash is increasingly obsolete, while mobile apps and digital currencies are likely to overtake credit and debit cards as the most popular e-commerce payment methods worldwide. Nimble fintechs are challenging the existing banking networks, which are encumbered by legacy systems. Meanwhile, tokenisation, blockchain and cryptocurrencies are busy trying to disrupt the disruptors. No other sector has this ability to evolve, to penetrate existing industries, or grow new ones from scratch. In a portfolio technology serves a dual purpose. It gives investors access to growth, but it also gives them something of a hedge against disruption to other parts of the market. Innovation Technology moves quickly. Today’s fresh idea can rapidly become obsolete. Even well-established technology can be disrupted. Search engines have been an immovable feature of internet use for more than a decade, but are now being threatened by the adoption of AI. This is why we believe it is important to be nimble, focusing on the entire technology market, rather than just a handful of mega-cap companies. Equally, all technology adoption comes with an ecosystem. AI, for example, relies on cloud computing and data centres to store and interrogate the data on which it builds its insights. This creates a vast supply chain of hardware manufacturers, providing sophisticated cabling or semiconductors. The ecosystem requires energy producers cooling systems and AI needs software that can generate insights from swathes of unstructured data. This ecosystem is often where the most exciting opportunities are to be found. It is also where active managers can thrive, uncovering these pockets of innovation at an earlier stage, before they become a significant part of the index and their growth is behind them. Efficiency While investors often focus on innovation and disruption, technology also has an important role in allowing businesses to be more efficient. This is at the heart of corporate digital transformation. Those businesses that neglect their digital strategy find themselves marginalised and uncompetitive. Companies that rethink their existing business models and processes through the use of technology are becoming more efficient. This is a powerful motivator for companies and therefore a consequential driver for technology returns. A breadth of opportunities The technology sector has a huge and constantly evolving opportunity set. It blends fast-growing, disruptive companies with steadier options. Alongside an Nvidia or Palantir sits Microsoft or Apple, which could be considered more stable, annuity-like options. Less highly-valued than their peers, they pay growing dividends and deliver steady earnings. The sector will also hold turnaround ideas, or special situations. As investors strive to keep pace with changing markets, anomalies will emerge. Great companies will be overlooked because they are in the wrong sector or investors misinterpret the opportunity. Active management can uncover these disparities and exploit them. This diversity is often over-looked. Active managers can build a balanced portfolio within technology, allowing them to perform in a range of market environments. This can also help avoid the concentration risks that tends to build up in index-focused strategies, delivering a more consistent return to investors. Forward-looking Technology investment forces an investor to look to the future. This is the direct opposite of investing in a benchmark that rewards yesterday’s winning companies. Technology investment demands that investors uncover the trends of the future, looking to see where industries are going, and who is likely to win or lose from those developments. In this way, it forces investors to keep pace with changing markets. Through active management, investors can align themselves with the winners from change, rather than those at the wrong end of it. We continue to see new industries being created, while old industries die or are forever altered. Technology sits at the heart of this evolution. Most investors have long-term goals for their savings: they may be saving for retirement, or for their children’s university fees. It makes sense, therefore, to future-proof an investment portfolio by aligning part of it with enduring structural trends. An actively managed investment in technology helps keep a portfolio focused firmly on the future. Total return – how technology has performed against UK and global equities Source: Thomson DataStream, total return % in GBP, to 31 December 2025. How technology contributes to the MSCI World index Source: IDS/Wilshire Atlas 31/12/25. The weightings for each sector of the index are rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent; therefore, the aggregate weights for the index may not equal 100%. Click here or press enter for the accessibility optimised version Allianz Technology Trust PLC Allianz Technology Trust is managed by the highly experienced Global Technology team* based in San Francisco. The team benefits from its close proximity to Silicon Valley where many of the world’s key technology companies are headquartered. The Company is a UK listed closed- ended fund which aims to achieve long-term capital growth by investing principally in technology companies globally. The team looks to identify major trends ahead of the crowd and invest in stocks that have the potential to be tomorrow’s Apple, Google or Microsoft. The Company invests in mid to large technology companies. Our aim is to hold companies we expect to benefit from the continued growth in particular sub-sectors of technology, especially in companies that provide solutions to save money or enable companies to improve their relationships with customers and deliver revenue growth. The Company also seeks to hold companies that will create shareholder value with the introduction of a new product or new technology. Over the past 20 years, this would have included PC manufacturers, software, internet applications or consumer devices. Allianz Technology Trust offers access to the investment potential of the technology sector from the heart of the industry. The AIC publishes annual ISA Millionaire research on those investment companies that would have made investors more than £1 million if they had invested the full ISA allowance in the same company every year from 1999. Allianz Technology Trust is pleased to be ranked 1st in the 2026 list and would have made an investor £3,652,929. Allianz Technology Trust was named ‘Investment Company of the Year’ in the ‘Technology’ category at the Investment Week awards in November 2025. *In July 2022, portfolio management for Allianz Technology Trust PLC transferred from Allianz Global Investors to Voya Investment Management. The same investment team continues to manage the portfolio and the investment process remains unchanged. Allianz Global Investors continues to act as the Company’s AIFM, providing company secretarial, administration, and sales and marketing services. First-hand knowledge Allianz Technology Trust’s top twenty holdings… Meet the Managers Mike Seidenberg Lead Portfolio Manager Michael Seidenberg is a senior portfolio manager for the global technology strategies and an equity analyst on the fundamental thematic team at Voya Investment Management. He joined the firm following Voya’s integration of certain assets and teams comprising the substantial majority of Allianz Global Investors U.S. business, where he was a portfolio manager, analyst and director on the U.S. global technology team. Prior to that, he worked at a number of hedge funds, including Pequot Capital, Andor Capital and Citadel Investment Group. He also worked in the software industry and at Oracle Corporation. Michael earned a BS in business administration from the University of Colorado and an MBA with concentrations in finance and accounting from Columbia Business School. Erik Swords Portfolio Manager and Managing Director, Head of Global Technology Erik Swords is head of global technology strategies on the fundamental thematic team at Voya Investment Management. He joined the firm following Voya’s integration of certain assets and teams comprising the substantial majority of Allianz Global Investors U.S. business, where he was a lead portfolio manager, managing director and led the U.S. global technology team. Prior to that, he worked at Newton Investment Management for 16 years, leading one of BNY Mellon’s largest technology strategies, along with several other thematic portfolios focused on technology and related sectors. Previously, he worked as a research analyst covering the software sector at Pilgrim Baxter Associates, Exis Capital Management and Credit Suisse First Boston Technology Group. Erik earned a BS in finance from Lehigh University. Danny Su Portfolio Manager/Analyst Danny Su is a senior equity analyst on the fundamental thematic team at Voya Investment Management. He joined the firm following Voya’s integration of certain assets and teams comprising the substantial majority of Allianz Global Investors U.S. business, where he was a portfolio manager, analyst and director with global responsibilities for the hardware, semiconductor, semiconductor capital equipment and contract- manufacturer sectors. Prior to that, Danny was an associate analyst at ABN Amro, covering the internet-infrastructure software and marketing research sectors. Previously, he was a business analyst with McKinsey & Company in Hong Kong. Danny earned a dual BS in electrical engineering and economics from MIT and a master’s degree in management from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Justin Sumner, CFA Portfolio Manager/Analyst Justin Sumner is a senior portfolio manager on the global technology strategies and an equity analyst on the fundamental thematic team at Voya Investment Management. He joined the firm following Voya’s integration of certain assets and teams comprising the substantial majority of Allianz Global Investors U.S. business, where he was a senior portfolio manager and director on the U.S. global technology team. Prior to that, Justin worked at Newton Investment Management for 15 years, developing, launching and managing thematic investments focused on technology. Previously, he worked as an equity analyst covering technology and related sectors at several asset management shops, including Sentinel, AmSouth and American Century. Justin earned a BS in economics from the University of Kansas. He is a CFA® Charterholder. John J. Coyle, Jr. Portfolio Manager/Analyst John Coyle is a portfolio manager and an equity analyst on the fundamental thematic team at Voya Investment Management. He joined the firm following Voya’s integration of certain assets and teams comprising the substantial majority of Allianz Global Investors U.S. business, where he was a portfolio manager and director with research responsibilities for the U.S. small-mid cap and global space team covering a wide array of companies across technology, consumer, and cyclical sectors. Prior to that, John was a vice president and research associate at Barclays and Lehman Brothers covering the U.S. building products and homebuilding sectors. John earned a BBA in finance, cum laude from Louisiana State University. Click here or press enter for the accessibility optimised version The Silicon Valley ecosystem One of the astonishing features of the artificial intelligence boom is the speed with which capital has mobilised to support it. Entrepreneurs and researchers have been able to generate venture capital funding to back their ideas, while larger companies have been able to get public market funding for investments in AI. Data centres have been rapidly developed to facilitate AI workloads. This is the brilliance of Silicon Valley – turning an exciting idea into reality. AI has been an elegant example of Silicon Valley’s vast ecosystem in action. As the technology emerged, there were entrepreneurs ready with new ideas to exploit it, a willing band of financiers ready to fund it, plus a network of engineers ready to do the requisite plumbing. Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence startups raised a record $150 billion in 2025. It is testament to how a disruptive technology develops real world viability. It also demonstrates why Silicon Valley remains pre-eminent, even though there have been many pretenders to its throne. It has been at the heart of technology investing for much of the past forty years and remains a hub for technology innovation, bringing together intellectual property, capital and a skilled workforce. About Silicon Valley Silicon Valley has been a hub for the technology sector for more than 40 years. The name Silicon Valley was first adopted in the early 1970s because of the region's association with the silicon transistor, which is used in all modern microprocessors. Silicon Valley covers an area of 1,854 square miles and is home to about three million people. It is located in the Bay region of California. It's also home to Stanford University and several state university campuses. This academic presence has helped fuel a rich research and development synergy throughout the Valley. Despite some companies moving to cheaper spots such as Texas, an impressive rollcall of major technology companies retain their headquarters there. This includes giants Apple, Alphabet, Meta and Nvidia, plus hardware companies such as Cisco, Oracle and Intel. OpenAI is based there, alongside other AI pioneers such as Anthropic and ScaleAI. It is also a hub for start- ups, who know they can rely on its comprehensive ecosystem to grow their businesses. The region is a hotbed of entrepreneurship and ambition. Per capita income reached an all-time high of $157,000 in 2024, more than double the national average. The region is home to 56 billionaires and 145,000 millionaires. Aggregate household wealth in Silicon Valley was approximately $1.01 trillion in 2024. Entrepreneurs can find everything they need to drive growth – from skilled staff to available funding. Software developers are the largest occupational group in Silicon Valley, with over 147,000 workers, followed by engineers, with 116,100. There is nowhere else in the world that can boast this concentration of technological know-how and capability. The latest Silicon Valley index shows the extent to which the region is still central to the evolution of the technology industry. It accounts for more than 50% of US venture capital and 37% of the nation’s angel investments. Patents awarded to Silicon Valley inventors continues to expand, hitting 23,600 in 2024. Companies know that they can harness these resources to scale. Silicon Valley and San Francisco host 277 unicorn companies (companies worth more than $1bn) and 21 decacorns (companies worth more than $10bn). Capital is directed to where it is needed. More recently artificial intelligence has scooped up more of the region’s investment, but over time, it will ebb and flow depending on where the best ideas can be found. The region’s public companies, in aggregate, are valued at more than $23 trillion – an amount 2.4x higher than pre-pandemic. This is a growth rate of nearly double that of the S&P 500 and nearly triple that of the NYSE Composite Index. Silicon Valley has an unrivalled pedigree of launching, scaling and growing technology companies. Challengers There are challengers to Silicon Valley’s crown. Tesla has moved to Austin, Texas, while Hewlett Packard has decamped to Houston. High real estate prices can deter some companies. Equally, it has spawned international imitators. India has Bangalore, which is now the centre of its growing high tech industry. 80% of the world’s IT companies have a presence there. Taiwan and Korea are home to a significant share of the semiconductor supply chain. The UK has ‘the Silicon Valley of Europe’ in the Thames Valley, with a similar ecosystem of intellectual property emerging from Cambridge University and an experienced workforce ready to commercialise it. China has its Nanshan District in Shenzhen and Zhongguancun, a technology hub in Haidian District, Beijing. However, none have the scale and resources of Silicon Valley, which continues to bring together great ideas, dynamic capital and strong execution. Between 2018 and 2023, the region increased the number of tech jobs by nearly 19%. Only New York, Seattle and Dallas come anywhere close. Companies are there because it gives them an edge. There can be downsides to the abundance of risk capital. The region has had its failures, of which Theranos and WeWork were among the most high profile. Inevitably, in the maelstrom of ideas and activities, good and bad will emerge. We believe that there is no alternative to being on the ground, visiting companies, talking to competitors and suppliers for proper due diligence. This helps us separate what might be just a good idea from what has the potential to become a viable and sustainable business. We want to ensure that the management team is sufficiently talented to bring an idea to life. Capital to support businesses is still significantly concentrated in Silicon Valley. Around half of the total capital for US technology companies is raised there – over $500bn. This has become self-sustaining. Companies perceive a need to be there to support their growth. We believe that being in Silicon Valley offers us the best possible vista from which to observe and analyse the global technology sector. Differentiated insight The human side of fund management is vital. Investment is an art as well as a science. It is only when fully embedded in this ecosystem that it is possible to understand the buzz around a new technology, the enthusiasm among its staff and the fear from its rivals. Even while out and about grabbing a coffee, chatting at school sports events or having a quick bite for lunch, the buzz is tangible about existing technologies and new ideas. It’s also not unusual simply to bump into company executives. A simple five-minute meet-and-greet can prove a valuable source of analytical insight. Being at the heart of Silicon Valley can bring more nuanced information flow. Sitting through a formal results presentation does not provide the same insights that proximity to founders, engineers, competitors, early customers and even ex-employees can deliver. It is possible to spot patterns more quickly than we would by relying on standard disclosures. It also gives us access to “off-balance-sheet” signals: hiring momentum, product roadmaps, customer sentiment, or technical bottlenecks. It is also easier to differentiate signal from hype by hearing multiple independent perspectives on the same company or technology. Being on the ground in Silicon Valley makes it easier to have regular, informal access to founders and the C-suites of private and public tech companies. We will also talk to senior engineers and product leaders. These can be better barometers of sentiment and change than CEOs. Our professional and personal networks includes board members, advisors, and serial entrepreneurs. We find that proximity helps build long- term trust, which improves the quality of dialogue over time. Perhaps most importantly, being embedded in Silicon Valley helps us build a superior understanding of technology itself. We have access to technically sophisticated analysts, data scientists, and former operators, as well as to academics and leaders at the universities of Stanford and Berkeley. This can give us a perspective on which technologies are genuinely disruptive. It is also important to understand where technical constraints might lie. That enables us to better understand the execution risk companies may face, rather than just looking at the market size. With visibility across the value chain, we can look at which platforms are gaining developer mindshare, which suppliers are becoming critical bottlenecks and where margins are likely to accrue over time. We can get early exposure to emerging themes, before they become global. Important technological leaps, such as AI, cloud and crypto all became clear in Silicon Valley first. It is far easier to identify inflection points and consensus shifts on the ground in California than from a desk elsewhere. There is also access to talent. Voya IM have hired people with deep specialisation, and operating backgrounds in technology. If we need expertise to understand a particular technology, we can find it. This helps us build a team that can engage credibly with engineers and founders, not just CFOs. These factors all bring a depth to our decision-making that dry statistical analysis alone cannot deliver. Silicon Valley is a unique environment, unmatched anywhere else in the world. Click here or press enter for the accessibility optimised version Technology bubble 2.0? It is over 25 years ago since the dotcom bubble burst, but its legacy still looms over the technology sector. Many investors are perpetually alert for a dotcom bubble 2.0 despite technology being one of the best sectors for investors over the past decade compared to more general stock indices. As artificial intelligence has taken off, some have seen parallels in the soaring share prices, vast capital expenditure and concerning signs of exuberance. However, the market for artificial intelligence has some important differences with the days of the Internet boom. A number of high-profile commentators have suggested that the enthusiasm around AI could have bubble characteristics. The IMF and Bank of England have both warned about the risks inherent in AI, while the CEOs of JP Morgan and Alphabet, Jamie Dimon and Sundar Pichai respectively have also expressed concerns over the high spirits creeping into parts of the market. These concerns have tended to focus on a number of areas. The first is the vast capital expenditure being directed at AI. The hyperscalers – Amazon, Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft – have spent significantly. The consensus estimate among Wall Street analysts for the group’s 2026 capital spending is now $527 billion, up from $465 billion at the start of the third-quarter earnings season. Capital spending has continued to be revised higher over time. Whereas previous capital spending was funded from cash flow, these companies are now turning to the bond markets to pay for this spending. Analysis from Apollo Global Management suggested that by 2030, the hyperscalers could form half of the 10 largest borrowers in the Capex estimates for 2026 have been revised higher Consensus capex estimates for AI hyperscalers ($ billions) Source: FactSet, Goldman Sachs Research, 18 December 2025. US investment-grade corporate bond market. Morgan Stanley estimates that these companies could raise as much as $400bn from the US high- grade market in 2026, up almost 10x in just two years. There are other areas of extraordinary spending. Data centre construction hit a record $40 billion annual rate in June 2025, up 30% year on year. This in turn is creating significant energy demands, with power consumption from data centres expected to jump 175% by 2030 from 2023 levels. There is also huge investment in semiconductors and hardware. Nvidia continues to lead the pack, but there is also a growing interest in specialist chips. Significant capital is also going into the ‘Intelligence Layer’, where companies are focused on developing models. These include companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. OpenAI has attracted billions in investment, including a $300bn deal from Oracle, up to $100bn from Nvidia, and $250bn from Microsoft. The application and software layer has not seen the same level of investment to date, though this may be where the most compelling AI opportunities emerge. This will include AI agents and enterprise tools, plus productivity tools. Even if the sums aren’t as large, significant investment is flowing into areas such as healthcare and finance. Anthropic, for example, has launched Claude Cowork, with a series of plug-in tools including sales and legal options. Developments in the application layer and enterprise tools are already firmly underway. The investment being made by the large technology groups will depend on the eye of the beholder. It is either an endorsement of AI, in that Hyperscaler capex ($ billions) Source: Finncial Times / Source: Jefferies, calendar years, Oracle as of August 2025. companies think it will be so big that they are willing to back it with billions in investment, or it is a misallocation of resources. Our view is that both things can be true. The long-term potential for AI is extraordinary, yet there will likely also be some misallocation of capital along the way. These leaps in technological progress come around once every 12-15 years and tend to be highly disruptive when they do. Their adoption is never linear, but arguably, may be more significant than even the most optimistic predictions. These developments tend to have an impact across the whole economy and require investment across every layer of the technology and communication stack. There are already real-world uses for AI emerging. It has already moved inextricably into our lives. Personal digital assistants such as Siri and Alexa have been many people’s first direct encounter with AI, but they have long relied on personal recommendations from Spotify or curated content from Instagram. AI is already operating behind the scenes to combat fraud and mitigate cyber attacks. It is being used in healthcare for drug discovery. Self-driving cars are becoming a reality. Almost every industry is making some use of AI at some level. Our view is that this is the tip of the iceberg for AI adoption. The use of debt is an area to watch. Many of the largest technology companies have supported previous capital investment from cash flow and there are areas of concern. Oracle, for example, has invested billions of dollars to build its cloud and AI infrastructure this year, in spite of a debt pile of $100bn. However, barring a few exceptions, overall leverage remains relatively low compared with other sectors. Microsoft, for example, has free cash flow of $83.3bn and adjusted debt of $18.4bn. For Meta, it is $46.4bn versus $12.8bn. These are still companies with strong balance sheets, good free cash flow and vast revenues. Valuations have been another area of concern. The share prices for some of the largest technology companies have run up significantly, and they have grown to be an increasingly dominant part of global indices. The weight of the top 10 largest companies in the S&P 500 (almost all mega cap technology companies) is now around 40%, having more than doubled in a decade. While the lion’s share of this gain has been driven by superior earnings growth, multiple expansion has also been a feature of these gains. Alphabet, for example, has moved from a price to earnings ratio of 19x in September 2025 to 30x today. That said, valuations are not particularly stretched. The forward price to earnings ratio for Nvidia has fallen over the past 12 months as the company has consistently outpaced market expectations. Valuations are more reasonable as investors look beyond the largest AI players. AI comes with a vast ecosystem attached – it requires computing power, storage, software, hardware and connectivity. These areas do not dominate the headlines and have not attracted the lofty valuations seen elsewhere. The listed companies at the forefront of AI tend to be vast, cash-generative, profitable companies. They have cemented their position as early adopters and built significant dominance over the AI ecosystem. This has put them in an unrivalled position. The Dotcom bubble was characterised by speculative valuations for companies with low revenues and zero profits. Equally, many of the Dotcom companies were based on fragile business models or way too optimistic forecasts, while the AI leaders are, on the whole, solving important real-world problems. Some degree of capital misallocation is unavoidable. No evolving industry is perfect. We see some private market valuations showing signs of exuberance. As Amazon founder Jeff Bezos admitted, the excitement around this new technology is so great that bad ideas get funded alongside good ones. We have seen newly-launched companies such as Thinking Machines Lab attract vast valuations. It was created by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati and sells a customisable AI tool ‘Tinker’ designed to make AI systems more efficient and accessible. However, it only launched in February and has already attracted a $12bn valuation. OpenAI, undoubtedly an important pioneer in the sector, is discussing a new funding round that would value it at $750bn, up 50% from October. Ultimately, these valuations will need to be tested in public markets and they may come unstuck. In our view, investors should resist the urge to dismiss AI as a bubble. While AI has yet to translate into tangible revenue growth for many companies, this is typical of disruptive technology. AI is likely to unleash a significant wave of technological progress and is one of the clear areas of strong growth in the global economy. On the other hand, there needs to be a disciplined framework in which to assess valuations and ensure that investors are not paying too high a price for the growth on offer. There will be periods of capital misallocation, and gains are unlikely to follow a linear path. However, it is an argument for active management by experts deeply entrenched in the sector, rather than swerving AI altogether. Click here or press enter for the accessibility optimised version Quantum computing The space race of the 21st century? If AI has been the major technological breakthrough of the past decade, quantum technology could be the driver for the next wave of progress. It promises to super-charge AI, while solving many of its limitations, such as its energy usage. There is a growing drumbeat of new breakthroughs, with real-world applications growing closer. The mega-cap technology companies are all looking at this area. Google’s Quantum AI Lab has led the pack. At the end of 2024, it unveiled ‘Willow’, its latest quantum chip. This futuristic chip is the size of a wine barrel, with intricate wires and discs, connected to a liquid helium bath refrigerator, which maintains the temperature at one-thousandth of a degree above absolute zero. The chip has already shown that it can solve tasks that normal computers cannot, and at extraordinary speed. Google claims that Willow solved a problem that would have taken the world’s fastest computer 10 septillion years (more than a trillion, trillion). In October 2025, Google said the result had been applied to its Quantum Echoes algorithm, which had been able to compute the structure of a molecule. “This is the first time in history that any quantum computer has successfully run a verifiable algorithm that surpasses the ability of supercomputers,” the group wrote. “This repeatable, beyond-classical computation is the basis for scalable verification, bringing quantum computers closer to becoming tools for practical applications.” Google is not the only company finding effective uses for quantum computing. Global banking group HSBC said it has used the technology to deliver a “world first in bond trading”. “Working with a team from IBM, HSBC leveraged an approach that utilised quantum and classical computing resources to deliver up to a 34 percent improvement in predicting how likely a trade would be filled at a quoted price, compared to common classical techniques used in the industry", adding that it was “on the cusp of a new frontier of computing in financial services”. In February 2025, Microsoft unveiled a new quantum computer called Majorana 1. The computer uses a new quantum bit called a topological qubit. These are less error-prone than alternatives, but researchers have struggled to make them work. Chetan Nayak, senior researcher at Microsoft's Station Q quantum computing research centre said: “This past year has been transformative for our quantum programme. The launch of the Majorana 1 chip marked a pivotal moment, not just for Microsoft, but for the field of quantum computing.” China has been committing significant resources to its government-led quantum programme, Pan. It is a key part of Beijing’s latest five year plan. Pan has developed and tested the Zuchongzhi 3.0 quantum computer and opened it up for commercial uses in late 2025. The BBC has called it the ‘space race of the 21st century’. Quantum use cases Momentum is definitely building for a technology that has been largely theoretical to date. Quantum computers use quantum mechanics to solve problems, rather than traditional binary logic. Quantum mechanics is a branch of physics that emerged in the early 20th century. It explores the behaviour of matter and energy at a molecular level, and has already provided the foundation for a range of existing technologies such as nuclear power and semiconductors. Quantum computing allows for the vast expansion of computing power. This makes it faster and more powerful. Google claims that its quantum computers could be around 13,000x faster than current classical ‘supercomputers’. There are three main areas of potential use for quantum technology. 1.Quantum computers could lift many of the restraints associated with technology progress: they could be multiple times more energy efficient than a standard supercomputer, for example, also solving some of the energy requirement problems around AI. Quantum computing could help enable AI, allowing the swift processing of data required to generate AI insights. This could enable advances in areas such as cryptography, optimisation models and drug discovery. 2.Quantum sensing is another area of interest. Quantum states are extremely sensitive, which allows for ultra-precision measurements. This could have uses in medical technology, in navigation and in monitoring for natural resources. 3.Quantum communications could be a powerful tool to protect privacy and national security by enhancing encryption. The investment opportunity McKinsey says that surging investment and faster-than-expected innovation could propel the quantum market to $100 billion in a decade. It says: “The three core pillars of QT – quantum computing, quantum communication, and quantum sensing – could together generate up to $97 billion in revenue worldwide by 2035. Quantum computing will capture the bulk of that revenue, growing from $4 billion in revenue in 2024 to as much as $72 billion in 2035. While QT will affect many industries, the chemicals, life sciences, finance, and mobility industries will see the most growth.” While China has led the way, other governments around the world are starting to invest. The US has its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). This is tasked with identifying a feasible way to build useful quantum computers. In the UK, a £140 million National Quantum Computing Centre open in Oxfordshire in 2025. It is also a priority for companies. A 2025 survey of 500 business leaders across China, France, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States by SAS found that around 60% of enterprises are either exploring opportunities or actively allocating resources to quantum. Quantum AI is a particular area of interest, combining quantum computing and AI to develop new algorithms. This expands the potential for AI, allowing it to solve problems that are impossible for normal computers. Capital is flooding into the sector, with global investment in quantum technologies up 17x over the past decade. In the US, there was around $2.8bn invested in quantum start-ups in the third quarter of 2025 alone. There are still relatively few publicly listed quantum companies. D Wave has built technology that allows it to address complex optimisation problems, while Rigetti Computing is another pure play quantum group. Both launched during the pandemic and and shares prices have proved volatile. There are also software providers such as Arqit Quantum and Quantum Computing Inc. This is likely to expand as quantum technology becomes more viable. Controversy Even those who have made breakthroughs in quantum computing admit that real world use of this technology could be years away. Some of those working in the field suggest it could emerge as an important technology by the late 2020s. Others point to the mid-2040s as the start date for truly game- changing quantum computers. Some of the breakthroughs have been controversial, with independent experts questioning the science that underpins them. It is also worth noting that quantum computing may disrupt certain industries. Quantum computers can break encryption methods at an alarming speed, rendering ineffective encryption tools that are widely used today to protect everything from banking and retail transactions to business data, documents, email and more. Blockchain groups have been worried that quantum computers could eventually crack the elliptic curve cryptography. Most blockchain networks operate on this technology, and threats to it could potentially compromise billions of pounds in digital assets. This could prompt a re- examination of the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries. In the meantime, quantum computing remains an area of close interest. It is in an experimental phase, with many of the world’s finest minds applying their considerable brain power to unlocking its potential. They are backed by the economic might of giants such as Google, IBM and Microsoft alongside global governments. Quantum appears to be more realistic than it’s ever been and ATT is keeping a close eye on its development. We currently own a position in IonQ, a pure play around quantum and are very interested in their products. In addition, we are looking at the entire ecosystem around quantum computing. If it emerges, it could super-charge the AI boom and usher in a new era of transformative change. Click here or press enter for the accessibility optimised version Investment Manager’s Review How did the technology sector perform in 2025? Overall, it has been another strong year for technology. Our benchmark, the DJ World Technology index, rose 20.0% and the Company delivered 24.7%. Our returns came from a range of sectors, as technology leadership broadened out from the dominant US mega-caps. We saw particular strength in semiconductors and some hardware names, while the growth of artificial intelligence remained a strong and persistent theme. Nevertheless, this positive result disguised plenty of intra-year volatility. The year definitely had some gut wrenching moments, which seems to be a feature of most years! For example, ‘Liberation Day’ caused a severe sell-off across global stock markets. The announcement of tariffs made for an unpredictable period for the technology sector. Many technology companies have large global franchises and were therefore on the front line for the tariff impact. It took time for deals to be struck and for share prices to recover. As long-term investors with the goal of owning strong technology franchises in all types of markets, we have built a diversified, resilient portfolio which we hope will weather these short-term storms. Over many cycles, we have learnt that ‘doing nothing’ is often the best course of action, and the Liberation Day sell-off was no different, when only minor changes to the portfolio were made. These are noisy times and we need to be careful not to respond to every White House announcement. In some cases, we added to our favourite positions when we saw prices of these companies retreat and actively engaged with management in order to understand any potential implications for their business. Our proximity to many of the companies in Silicon Valley allowed us to meet with a number of companies during a tumultuous period for the stocks. We found that, in many cases, the outlook for companies hadn’t changed. Portfolio Manager's Report Mike Seidenberg CFA There have been growing fears of a ‘bubble’ in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Are you worried? AI is the most important sectoral theme to emerge in the last few years and it is a significant focus for the Company. We are always striving to make good risk/reward decisions for our shareholders, and to do that we have a clear framework around valuation. For every company, we analyse long-term growth rate, profitability and potential. Comparisons have been made with the dotcom boom. In our view, the biggest difference is that in the dotcom boom there were a lot of weak businesses that didn’t solve difficult problems. In contrast, many AI companies are solving large, real world problems. Equally, while the first- movers on the internet didn’t necessarily stay the distance, the hyperscalers have built far greater dominance over the AI ecosystem and have longevity. As with every technological revolution, not all will make it, which is why active, disciplined management is so important. Public market valuations remain high, but – for the most part – are not excessive and not nearly as high as at the peak of the dotcom euphoria. We do see signs of exuberance in some of the private equity valuations and are watching capital spending carefully. Companies recognise that it could be an existential threat if they get AI wrong – they risk becoming obsolete. This could prompt some potential capital misallocation, but a rigorous bottom-up approach ensures that we can avoid any excesses. What happened to technology company earnings during the year? Earnings have exceeded expectations for many technology companies, particularly those associated with AI. This has created a high bar and investors have been ruthless where companies have disappointed. In general, companies such as Alphabet have been on the right side, while companies such as Meta and Microsoft have struggled to impress. Nevertheless, it is worth noting that technology continues to contribute a substantial share of S&P 500 earnings – as much as two-thirds for 2025. Earnings strength has broadened out beyond the hyperscalers and into the AI ecosystem and this has been an increasing area of interest for the Company. The Company has around one- third in semiconductors. Why has this been an area of interest? ATT aims to offer investors a diversified technology portfolio. Our goal is to look at the entire ecosystem Public market valuations remain high, but – for the most part – are not excessive and not nearly as high as at the peak of the Dotcom euphoria. and find compelling investments across a wide spectrum of companies. In previous secular themes, we attempted to uncover investment opportunities which sit behind the obvious theme leaders, such as the companies supplying the infrastructure to the AI leaders, and our goal is the same here. This resulted in a robust investment pool in the semiconductor ecosystem. The semiconductor sector made up around a third of the portfolio (32.5%) over the year, and delivered an average return of 45.6%. The names we chose within that sector, including Micron, Broadcom and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), were important for overall returns and we outpaced the benchmark in the semiconductor sector. Micron contributed more than any other single stock to our performance over the year. Elsewhere within the AI ecosystem, we have invested in groups such as Celestica, which is a product manufacturing and supply chain services group that is benefiting from the growth of data centres. We are also invested in Amphenol, which makes the connectors that go inside data centres and is seeing strong growth in demand. Memory was also an important area in 2025 as supply shortages hit, with LAM Research a significant contributor over the year. New ideas added to the portfolio in 2025? Robinhood is an interesting new idea in the portfolio, contributing 1 percentage point to relative performance in 2025. The trading platform is widely used among younger generations for their long- term savings. Its strategy is highly differentiated and uses elements of ‘gamification’ and’ nudge theory’ to encourage savings and investment. Young people have a different way of thinking about their savings and expect to be able to manage them in a different way. Robinhood has tapped into that market very well and built a loyal customer base. Has the Magnificent Seven relinquished its grip on market leadership? It was a more complex year for the Magnificent Seven companies, with real concerns over the level of spending and whether they would see returns on their commitments. Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet and Amazon are expected to spend a combined $350 billion this year. Investors increasingly need evidence that those commitments are paying off. In 2025, Alphabet convinced investors that its capital allocation was proving effective, while the jury was out for Meta and Apple. Nvidia’s share price was very strong for much of the year and its earnings managed to outpace even the high expectations set for it by analysts. Its third quarter results showed revenues growing at 62% year on year. All the data on AI spending continues to support strong growth for Nvidia and we are comfortable with our position in the stock. The strong performance of the mega caps had been a headwind for active technology strategies such as ours. In a diversified, actively managed portfolio, it would not be prudent to hold Nvidia at index weight or above. And so, even though it is our largest holding, Nvidia did not deliver outperformance versus our benchmark. We prefer to look for large and mid cap stocks where we believe we can add more value. The mega cap headwind became a tailwind in 2025, as investors recognised that there is a range of options to invest in AI growth and started to turn their attention elsewhere. Did your market cap positioning help relative performance over the year? Yes. The portfolio held 47.5% in the mega caps (i.e. those companies worth more than $1 trillion). This was around 12% below the benchmark and this underweight contributed to performance over the year. Our weighting in mid-caps, at around 5% of the portfolio, was a strong contributor, particularly AMD, Amphenol and CrowdStrike. Palantir was another significant contributor to returns in 2025. What drove share price performance there? Palantir sat at the intersection between two major trends in 2025: defence and AI. Defence was a popular sector as European powers committed to raising defence spending, both in support of Ukraine and in response to the US backing away from its prior defence commitments. The MSCI World Aerospace and Defence sector rose 52.5% over the year, more than double the return of the MSCI World. Palantir is also at the forefront of AI. It has the most demonstrable real-time AI deployment. Its customers are large government agencies, who use Palantir products for a variety of use cases. Palantir is moving into the corporate realm and focusing on building its enterprise presence, which should be fruitful. They have some of the brightest and best software engineers and have done a phenomenal job of growing their business with year-on-year sales growing at over 55% in 2025. Did higher defence spending also boost cybersecurity? Cybersecurity is a crucial area of spending for companies and governments. The adversaries have become so good and so sophisticated. In 2025, we saw production disrupted at Japanese beer maker Asahi and at UK car group Jaguar Land Rover. They were among a whole host of companies, businesses and governments to experience attacks. Cybersecurity’s relevance extends beyond defence spending and is more about the world we’re living in – a digital world requires spending on cybersecurity. Companies in the sector had a reasonable year, with CyberArk and CrowdStrike marginally ahead of the benchmark. We had a 7 percentage point overweight at the start of the year, reducing to 5 percentage point by the end. We still find this segment a good hunting ground for ideas. Cybersecurity’s relevance extends beyond defence spending and is more about the world we’re living in – a digital world requires spending on cybersecurity. Software was a more difficult area in 2025. Why was that? Software is still an important part of the portfolio, at 25.8%. However, it had a tough year. The S&P 500 Software Index was down over 2025, falling 1% , which was a significant relative underperformance compared to the rest of the technology sector. The fear is that many software names will be taken out by AI, with IT buyers looking to AI agents to perform tasks currently performed by software. Shares in companies such as Salesforce, ServiceNow and Adobe have all struggled. We believe it will remain a difficult area. Semiconductors are growing at 30%+, which makes an allocation to software, where growth rates are a more anaemic 10-12%, hard to justify. The market tends to reward technology companies for growth. Nevertheless, there is a question over whether they have gotten too cheap – the decrease in value has been extraordinary. We are finding some interesting opportunities. MongoDB, for example, has been hit hard over the year. It is a good example of a company that hasn’t been able to prove to investors that it is part of the deployment of AI workloads, but we see value there. Elsewhere, we continue to look at software companies in detail, visit their premises and pore over the data. We need to be sure that not owning them at these valuations is the right position. As Asian vendors pick up more of the AI supply chain and China expands its technology ecosystem, are you seeing more opportunities outside the US? While the companies we hold draw revenues from across the world, they tend to be listed in the US and have their centre of operations there. It is true that some of the excitement in technology this year has come from outside the US. Investors have started to wake up to the broader AI ecosystem, much of which is located outside the US. We have participated through companies such as TSMC, where we had a 4.3% average weighting over the year. Some of the Korean memory companies have also been strong, but we have participated through Micron. Ultimately, we are based in the US, at the heart of Silicon Valley. The US technology ecosystem is unparalleled, and it is still home to significant Ultimately, we are based in the US, at the heart of Silicon Valley. The US technology ecosystem is unparalleled, and it is still home to significant global innovation. global innovation. We want to leverage our strengths for the benefit our investors. How optimistic are you looking in 2026? We are cautiously optimistic. We continue to see good opportunities for technology to be a bigger part of people’s lives. This has been a recurring theme since the first day I started working for the Company. We balance this with a nuanced understanding on the spending environment. Innovation continues to support growth for technology companies, particularly around AI. These technology shifts come once every 12-15 years and when they occur, they tend to be very powerful. People will always worry about a bubble, but when a secular change emerges, it tends to create significant value over the cycle. It is our job to uncover this value and to look beyond the obvious opportunities to other parts of the market. 2026 has potential to be a robust year for IPOs with a number of high- profile companies waiting in the wings. Obviously, a number of factors need to line up to execute these IPOs and we look forward to learning more about these exciting businesses. We are alert to the risks of over- valuation, portfolio concentration and also the risks emerging from a volatile macroeconomic backdrop. We are constantly testing our hypotheses and striving to understand the risk and reward for every company. For the time being companies appear to be weathering the macroeconomic volatility well. It has not been a great environment, but in the aftermath of the pandemic, companies underspent on technology and there is still pent- up demand. We expect that companies will need to show value in order for purchase orders to increase but this usually allows the leaders to take market share and for also-rans to fade away. It is important not to let macroeconomic or geopolitical factors become a distraction. There is always noise, and even more so in recent years. Our stock selection has to be governed by our deep dive on the stocks, rather than by the latest missive from the White House. Occasionally, macroeconomic factors will change the business model, but not as often as markets imagine. It is important to remember technology remains at the forefront of creating differentiation for many companies across numerous vertical markets and thus our long- term enthusiasm endures. Mike Seidenberg Lead Portfolio Manager Voya Investment Management Co LLC 13 March 2026 Innovation continues to support growth for technology companies, particularly around AI. These technology shifts come once every 12-15 years and when they occur, they tend to be very powerful. Click here or press enter for the accessibility optimised version Investment Portfolio Top Twenty Holdings 1 1 NVIDIA Sector: Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment Country: United States Value: £209.9m % of portfolio: 10.5 Nvidia designs specialist graphics processing units (GPUs). It built its name in the gaming industry, but has been at the heart of the growth in artificial intelligence. Generative AI requires vast processing power that is now largely provided by Nvidia’s sophisticated GPUs. The group has built a significant head- start in this part of the market, which has led to strong earnings growth. Its GPUs are also used in a variety of other industries, including architecture, engineering and scientific research. Photo: Shutterstock / BongkarnGraphic Top Twenty Holdings 2 2 Alphabet Sector: Interactive Media & Services Country: United States Value: £191.1m % of portfolio: 9.5 Alphabet is best-known as the parent company of Google, the world’s leading search engine. However, it also owns YouTube, AI research lab Deep Mind, travel app Waze, ad management group DoubleClick, smart home devices group Nest and fitness tracker group Fitbit. The group is also a major provider of cloud services, though remains behind Amazon and Microsoft. It is making significant investments in AI that should help its search engine and YouTube business segments. In 2024, it unveiled its first quantum computing chip, Willow and 2025 saw further progress from its Quantum AI lab. Photo: Microsoft Top Twenty Holdings 3 3 Microsoft Sector: Software Country: United States Value: £163.7m % of portfolio: 8.2 For many people, Microsoft has emerged as the public face of artificial intelligence through its AI-based Copilot tool. It has had a tie-up with Chat GPT group Open AI since 2019. In 2024, it announced a $3.3bn investment in an AI hub in Wisconsin, and a $30bn AI investment partnership with BlackRock. Its cloud computing business has also gone from strength to strength. It brought out its Majorana 1 quantum computer in 2025, saying the past year had been “transformative” for its quantum programme. Photo: Apple Top Twenty Holdings 4 4 Apple Sector: Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals Country: United States Value: £146.3m % of portfolio: 7.3 Apple has lost its crown as the most valuable company in the world, with Alphabet and Nvidia now commanding a higher valuation. Nevertheless, its services business, including its iCloud and Apple Music segments, continued to go from strength to strength in 2025 and iPhone sales were strong. It has made some progress on its AI rollout, but investors are still waiting for the next version of Siri. Photo: Broadcom Top Twenty Holdings 5 5 Broadcom Sector: Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment Country: United States Value: £145.9m % of portfolio: 7.3 Broadcom designs and develops a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Its chips are used in a wide variety of markets, including data centres, networking, software, broadband, wireless, and storage and industrial markets. It has been a significant beneficiary of the roll-out of AI infrastructure, with AI revenue growing 77% year-over-year to $4.1 billion and infrastructure software revenue growing 47% year-over-year to $6.7 billion. Photo: TSMC Top Twenty Holdings 6 6 Taiwan Semiconductor Sector: Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment Country: Taiwan Value: £112.0m % of portfolio: 5.6 TSMC has been a dedicated semiconductor foundry since 1987 and is now the world’s most valuable semiconductor company. It makes semiconductors for companies such as Apple, Broadcom, Qualcomm and Nvidia, while Intel and Texas Instruments, among others, outsource some of their production to TSMC. Until recently, TSMC only made its most advanced chips in Taiwan, but increasingly it is being incentivised to develop manufacturing plants in other countries. It is currently building foundries in Japan, the US and Germany. Photo: Micron Technology Top Twenty Holdings 7 7 Micron Technology Sector: Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment Country: United States Value: £94.0m % of portfolio: 4.7 Idaho-based Micron is the largest US maker of memory semiconductors. It produces a range of semiconductor devices, including dynamic random access memory, flash memory, and solid-state drives. Its consumer products are marketed under the brands Crucial Technology and Lexar. In 2025, share price growth has been fuelled by AI-related demand for Micron's high-bandwidth memory. Photo: Lam Research Top Twenty Holdings 8 8 Lam Research Sector: Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment Country: United States Value: £73.3m % of portfolio: 3.6 Lam Research Corporation is an American supplier of wafer-fabrication equipment and related services to the semiconductor industry. It remains an important part of the semiconductor supply chain, with its products used primarily in front-end wafer processing. Its products provide the link between design and manufacturing for the latest electronic devices. Photo: Shutterstock / Primakov Top Twenty Holdings 9 9 Meta Platforms Sector: Interactive Media & Services Country: United States Value: £60.3m % of portfolio: 3.0 Having rebranded Facebook as Meta Platforms in 2021, the group has turned its attention to its AI proposition. It has committed significant capital expenditure across various areas of AI, including the build out of data centres to support its growth. Its ambition is to achieve superintelligence where computers outthink humans. Meta announced its artificial intelligence model Llama 2 in July 2023 and in 2024, announced its new AI model Movie Gen, which can generate movie clips from user prompts. The group also owns powerful brands, such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Top Twenty Holdings 10 10 KLA Sector: Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment Country: United States Value: £53.2m % of portfolio: 2.6 KLA is a supplier to the semiconductor and nanoelectronics industries. It provides process control and yield management systems used by chipmakers to detect defects and boost production. It also has advanced inspection tools, metrology systems, and computational analytics. Its products are used throughout the entire chip-making process. Photo: [•] Top Twenty Holdings 11 11 Monolithic Power Systems Sector: Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment Country: United States Value: £50.9m % of portfolio: 2.5 MPS creates small, semiconductor-based power solutions for systems found in industrial applications. Its specialist semiconductors are designed to be energy efficient, cost-effective and environmentally responsible. This is becoming increasingly important at a time when there are concerns about the energy use associated with technology developments such as AI. The group was founded in 1997 by current CEO Michael Hsing. Top Twenty Holdings 12 12 Amphenol Sector: Electronic Equipment Instruments & Components Country: United States Value: £46.8m % of portfolio: 2.3 Amphenol is one of the world's largest designers and manufacturers of electronic and fibre-optic connectors, cable and interconnect systems such as coaxial cables. It also makes antennas and sensors. While it operates across a range of industries, including automotive, communications, aerospace, and industrial, it has come to prominence as provider of connectivity for data centres. The global data centre market reached $347.6 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $652 billion by 2030, fuelling demand for Amphenol’s products. Top Twenty Holdings 13 13 Snowflake Sector: IT Services Country: United States Value: £41.7m % of portfolio: 2.1 Snowflake is a cloud computing data warehousing company, founded in July 2012. It provides cloud-based data storage and analytics, also known as "data warehouse-as-a- service". It runs on all the major cloud- computing platforms and is considered the pioneer in cloud-based data platforms. It listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2020 and, at the time, was the largest software IPO in history. Photo: MongoDB Top Twenty Holdings 14 14 MongoDB Sector: IT Services Country: United States Value: £37.8m % of portfolio: 1.9 MongoDB is a database software company founded in 2009 as 10gen. It listed on the Nasdaq in 2017. It provides a flexible storage model that enables users to store and query different data types, allows companies to interrogate data at a more granular level. In recent years, the group has expanded into AI- related applications, including vector search and advanced multi-cloud deployment. It has built partnerships with the major hyperscalers. Photo: Shopify Top Twenty Holdings 15 15 Shopify Sector: IT Services Country: Canada Value: £35.5m % of portfolio: 1.8 Shopify is a Canadian multinational e- commerce company headquartered in Ottawa. Its proprietary cloud-based ecommerce platform allows merchants to launch online stores. The platform will handle marketing and payments, plus secure transactions and shipping. It now has 2m merchants across 4.6m websites using its platform. It transacts 15m orders per month. Photo: AMD Top Twenty Holdings 16 16 Advanced Micro Devices Sector: Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment Country: United States Value: £34.6m % of portfolio: 1.7 AMD is an American semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California. It develops chips for a range of business and consumer markets. In 2025, it announced a multi-year deal to power OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure. AMD CEO Lisa Su referred to the partnership as a “true win-win, enabling the world’s most ambitious AI buildout and advancing the entire AI ecosystem.” It has emerged as a credible rival to Nvidia and is a beneficiary of data centre growth. Top Twenty Holdings 17 17 Analog Devices Sector: Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment Country: United States Value: £29.8m % of portfolio: 1.5 Analog Devices is a US-based semiconductor company specialising in data conversion, signal processing, and power management technology. It has a particular focus on industrial chips. It has seen significant innovation in recent years. It is benefitting from AI infrastructure growth, but also other significant trends such as factory digitisation. Top Twenty Holdings 18 18 Arista Networks Sector: Communications Equipment Country: United States Value: £29.2m % of portfolio: 1.5 Arista is a computer networking company founded in 2008 and listed since 2014. It builds scalable high-performance and ultra-low- latency networks for data centre and cloud computing environments. It currently has more than 10,000+ cloud customers worldwide and has deployed 100m ports. It was founded by Andy Bechtolsheim, Ken Duda and David Cheriton. Top Twenty Holdings 19 19 CrowdStrike Sector: Software Country: United States Value: £27.3m % of portfolio: 1.4 Security group CrowdStrike uses artificial intelligence to give real-time protection and visibility for companies, preventing attacks. The group draws data from across the globe, giving it one of the most advanced data platforms for security. This is designed to identify and prevent breaches before they occur. In 2025, the company has picked up a range of new customers and expanded its AI-powered detection. Top Twenty Holdings 20 20 Cloudflare Sector: IT Services Country: United States Value: £26.6m % of portfolio: 1.3 Cloudflare was founded in 2009 and listed in 2019. It provides services to make websites run faster and more securely. Cloudflare is used by more than 26 million sites and by around 20% of the Internet for its web security services. Its post-quantum cryptography capabilities give it an edge over its rivals. 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