Where conviction is rising: defense, next-wave AI, and real stuff
The biggest dollar adds are unambiguous: they want more exposure to defense, second-tier semis/AI infrastructure, and the metals that will feed both digital and physical build-outs.
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Northrop Grumman: A bold move, upping the stake by 70.4% and adding about $248.3M. With only a 1.4% gain vs their average buy price, they are clearly buying into volatility, not performance-chasing; this is a conviction call that defense budgets and strategic programs will keep compounding.
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Coeur Mining: Shares up 37.2%, adding roughly $175.4M, on a position already sitting about 60.9% above cost. That is doubling down on their precious-metals complex as a levered, higher-beta extension of the existing Wheaton and Pan American allocations.
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Palantir: A 14.1% share add worth about $122.4M signals belief that software intelligence remains under-monetized. With the stake up roughly 66.0% vs cost, they’re betting Palantir is transitioning from story stock to cash-flow asset in the AI stack.
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Marvell, TSMC: In semis, adds of 17.6% in Marvell (
$87.8M) and 14.4% in TSMC ($60.6M) say they prefer AI plumbing and capacity expansion over crowded GPU trade extensions. -
COPX and Hudbay: The roughly $97.7M add to the Global X copper ETF and $51.7M into Hudbay deepen a clear copper thesis. Copper sits at the intersection of AI datacenters, electrification, and grid build-out — the kind of non-fad bottleneck this manager likes to buy early and hold.
Conviction
The big buys
The biggest dollar adds this quarter — where conviction is rising.
| Position | Change | Portfolio weight | Value |
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| NOCNORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP | Added 70.4%+$248.3M | 0.7% | $601.1M |
| CDECOEUR MNG INC | Added 37.2%+$175.4M | 0.8% | $647.0M |
| PLTRPALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC | Added 14.1%+$122.4M | 1.2% | $990.8M |
| COPXGLOBAL X FDS | Added 20.1%+$97.7M | 0.7% | $584.9M |
| MRVLMARVELL TECHNOLOGY INC | Added 17.6%+$87.8M | 0.7% | $587.6M |
| CSXCSX CORP | Added 12.4%+$68.7M | 0.7% | $622.4M |
| TSMTAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFAC | Added 14.4%+$60.6M | 0.6% | $481.9M |
| HBMHUDBAY MINERALS INC | Added 12.3%+$51.7M | 0.6% | $470.2M |
Dollar changes estimated at current prices (shares added × current price); top-50 current positions only.
What they’re selling: skimming the cream off mega-cap winners
On the funding side, the pattern is consistent: trim liquid, highly profitable winners where the multiple is rich and the gain banked, and recycle into less fully priced themes.
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Nvidia, Micron, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon: All saw modest share cuts, generally low- to mid-single-digit percent reductions, yet remain among the portfolio’s largest holdings. With gains ranging from about 38.1% on Amazon to 607.9% on Micron versus cost, these look like disciplined risk management rather than a change of mind on AI or big tech.
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RSSL (Global X fund): This is the single biggest trim by dollars at about -$181.3M and an -11.1% share cut. Given the still-hefty 1.74% portfolio weight and roughly 48.4% gain vs cost, they’re freeing up capital from a broad thematic ETF to allocate into more targeted exposures like COPX and specific miners.
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Wheaton Precious Metals and Freeport-McMoRan: Both were nudged lower (Wheaton by -6.4%, Freeport by -6.7%), even as the metals basket overall grew. That indicates a preference for higher-operating-leverage or more idiosyncratic names like Coeur, Hudbay, and Southern Copper over these more established bellwethers.
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Lockheed Martin vs Northrop: Lockheed was trimmed by -8.5% (about -$62.3M) while Northrop was aggressively increased. This looks like a relative-value switch inside defense, not a sector call.
Sector posture: tech still rules, but the margin shifts to steel and missiles
Despite the high-profile trims, technology remains the largest sleeve at 41.13%, only modestly down from 42.13%. The nuance is that capital is sliding from mega-cap platform software and GPU headline names toward enabling semis and AI-software names like Marvell, TSMC, and Palantir.
Industrials are where the real build is happening. The sector’s weight climbed to 23.91%, underpinned by adds to Northrop, railroads (CSX, Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern), industrial machinery and automation (Eaton, Rockwell, Parker-Hannifin), and infrastructure contractors like Quanta. This basket ties directly into themes of re-shoring, grid modernization, and logistics resilience.
Basic Materials, now 15.14%, is increasingly a curated bet on uranium and copper plus precious metals optionality. Cameco and NexGen anchor uranium; Hudbay, Freeport, Southern Copper, and the COPX ETF cover copper; Coeur, Pan American Silver, and Wheaton provide gold/silver torque.
Utilities and energy (largely midstream gas via Energy Transfer, MPLX, Enterprise Products, and Sempra) hold a combined mid-single-digit share but play an important role: they provide steady yield and inflation-linked cash flows to offset the higher volatility of metals and cyclicals.
What this portfolio is really saying about the next leg of the cycle
Viewed as a whole, this quarter’s moves sketch a manager preparing for an environment where AI remains critical, but returns disperse toward enablers, infrastructure, and resources rather than only the top of the tech food chain. They are locking in part of their mega-cap tech windfall and re-deploying into names tied to capex, defense, and commodity scarcity.
The heavier bets on defense primes, rails, and industrial machinery say they expect a long runway of public and private investment: rearmament, onshoring, energy transition, and grid upgrades. The intensified focus on uranium and copper suggests they see physical bottlenecks becoming as important to performance as software moats.
On the risk side, this leaves the book more cyclical and more sensitive to real-economy and policy shocks, but less dependent on sustaining extreme valuations in a handful of tech giants. The continued adds to Palantir and second-tier semis preserve upside to AI, while the diversified metals and midstream complex offer inflation and downside ballast.
If the next phase of the market is about who supplies the tools, power, and materials behind AI, defense, and infrastructure — not just who sells cloud seats — Mirae Asset’s Q2 positioning is already skating to where that puck might be heading.
Frequently asked questions
What did Mirae Asset Global Etfs Holdings LTD buy in 2026-Q2?+
In 2026‑Q2, Mirae Asset Global Etfs Holdings LTD added heavily to Northrop Grumman, Coeur Mining, Palantir, Marvell Technology, TSMC, the Global X copper ETF COPX, and Hudbay Minerals, signaling rising conviction in defense, second-derivative AI infrastructure, and metals.
What did Mirae Asset Global Etfs Holdings LTD sell in 2026-Q2?+
The firm trimmed several large winners, including Nvidia, Micron, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Wheaton Precious Metals, and the Global X fund RSSL. These moves look like profit-taking and capital reallocation rather than wholesale exits from technology or precious metals.
What is Mirae Asset Global Etfs Holdings LTD's biggest holding as of 2026-Q2?+
Based on the top‑50 positions disclosed, Nvidia is the largest single holding at 2.70% of the reported portfolio, followed by Micron at 2.32% and Apple at 2.02%. The top‑10 positions together account for 17.8% of the disclosed book.
How is Mirae Asset Global Etfs Holdings LTD positioned by sector in 2026-Q2?+
Technology dominates at 41.13% of the disclosed portfolio, with Industrials at 23.91% and Basic Materials at 15.14%. Consumer Discretionary, Utilities, Energy, and a small Telecommunications sleeve round out the rest, reflecting a blend of AI, defense, infrastructure, and resource themes.
Is Mirae Asset Global Etfs Holdings LTD reducing its exposure to AI?+
They trimmed mega‑cap AI beneficiaries like Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon, but increased positions in enablers such as Marvell, TSMC, and Palantir. The overall tech weight barely changed, suggesting a rotation within AI and tech rather than an exit from the theme.
How has Mirae Asset Global Etfs Holdings LTD performed up to 2026-Q2?+
Across the eight quarters since 2024‑Q2, the 13F portfolio shows an annualized return of 19.64% and a cumulative gain of 43.13%, with 2026‑Q2 itself up 8.74% on a 13F-reported basis.