The "Babel Strategy" exchange-traded fund (ETF), which fills half of its investment portfolio with bonds and cash equivalents and focuses the other half on high-growth stocks, is evolving as the domestic stock market continues its volatile market. The Babel strategy is an asset allocation technique that focuses on the extreme combination of safe assets and high-growth stocks, excluding ambiguous risky assets, such as heavy weights at both ends of weights. As stock market volatility increases, demand for asset stability grows, and at the same time, the demand for "smart pension ants" to selectively invest only in stocks with strong growth engines is making such "bond mix 50" ETFs.

In particular, investment in equity assets is limited to up to 70% in retirement pension accounts, and the regulatory environment in which bond-mixed ETFs with less than 50% of stocks are classified as safe assets can be substantially maximized within the account. In the management industry, competition for differentiation between "who brings out what sharp spears (growth stocks)" is expected to intensify with the same shield called "bonds."

According to the financial investment industry on the 22nd, Hanwha Asset Management is scheduled to list the 'PLUS SK Hynix Sandisk Bond Mix 50' ETF early next month. This product is a structure that combines domestic high-bandwidth memory (HBM), DRAM leader SK Hynix (25 percent), and global NAND flash and corporate data storage (eSSD) powerhouse SanDisk (25 percent) with stock portfolios, while the remaining 50 percent is defended with short-term bonds such as treasury bonds. The strategy is to draw strong rebound momentum across the memory industry by investing heavily in two key companies of the next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) memory semiconductor value chain. "If SK Hynix, a pure memory company representing HBM and DRAM, and SanDisk, a pure player representing NAND and eSSD, are incorporated together, it will have the effect of investing heavily in key companies of DRAM and NAND," a financial investment industry official said. "This will maximize the benefits of the memory supercycle."

VI Asset Management will soon introduce "FOCUS Financial Semiconductor Holding Bonds Mixed 50 Active," which distributes investment in so-called "gold, semi- and land" core stocks such as finance, semiconductors, and holding companies. Based on its know-how in managing public offering funds with the same concept, VI Asset Management has already launched its bid to the market in the form of ETFs with high trading convenience, targeting the inflow of retirement pension funds this time. Park Hee-yoon, head of VI Asset Management's investment solution division, said, "The strategy is to take the proportion of basic stock portfolios to 60% of semiconductors, 20% of finance, and 20% of holdings. As it is an active product, it is possible to rebalance by reducing the proportion of semiconductors and increasing holdings and finance depending on market conditions." This product will selectively invest in not only two-top semiconductors such as Samsung Electronics (10.9%), SK Hynix (10.8%), but also 20 net stocks such as KB Financial (3.6%), Shinhan Holdings (2.4%), and Doosan (2.3%) to ensure both profitability and stability.

Products that combine global big tech leaders with tweezers are also about to be listed. Hana Asset Management will release the "1Q Nvidia Alphabet Bond Mix 50" ETF containing Nvidia and Alphabet (Google), the core pillars of the global AI ecosystem, on the 28th. NVIDIA (25%), a leader in AI hardware chips, combined with Alphabet (25%), which leads large language models (LLM) and data center platforms, and topped with 50% of U.S. government bonds. The product is designed with a "monthly dividend" structure that can generate stable cash flows every month even amid stock price fluctuations.

As such, bond-mixed ETFs, which have recently been released, have evolved their portfolio "window" in a variety of ways and are at the level of investors. "1Q Hyundai Motor Kia" (25% Hyundai Motor, 25% Kia), "KODEX Samsung Electronics SK Hynix" (25% Samsung Electronics, 25% SK Hynix), and "WON Samsung Electronics Hyundai Motor" (25% Samsung Electronics, 25% Hyundai Motor), which have already been introduced to investors, have been leading the market settlement with traditional representative stocks as windows. In addition, investors' choices are expanding to "KIWOOM U.S. Space Tech TOP2" (26% of SpaceX, 24% of Rocket Lab).

[Reporter Lee Yoo Seob]