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What Kara Murphy is saying

CIO, Kestra Investment Management

4 dated public stances tracked since 2026-04-01, most recently 2026-10-14. Each line carries the date and the venue it came from; quotation marks mean verbatim. Methodology.

The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of Kara Murphy's public commentary — television, podcasts, and interviews — compiled by automated transcript analysis and dated to the episode they came from. They may lag the speaker's current view and may contain extraction errors. Text in quotation marks is verbatim from the episode; everything else is our paraphrase. Kara Murphy is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.

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2026-10-14
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Most-argued themes

ThemeStancesLeanMixLast
SPX22 neutral2026-09-25
Small Caps11 bullish2026-10-14
USTS11 bullish2026-09-25

Tracked stances

bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.

2026-10-14 Small Caps bullish CNBC (uncut) · uncut_tv
Earnings growth is spreading beyond mega-cap tech into small and mid caps, while the S&P 500's extreme concentration in a handful of names creates a risk-management case for diversification into these segments
CNBC uncut 2026-10-14 15:41 ET (30 min)
2026-09-25 USTS bullish Bloomberg Open Interest · video
Short-end yields are attractive without requiring duration risk, while the long end is unattractive because high volatility, persistent inflation pressures, and policy uncertainty mean investors are not being adequately compensated to extend duration
“the shorter end of the curve looks more attractive here than the longer end”
Open Interest 9/25/2026
Said again: 2026-10-14 (CNBC (uncut))
2026-09-25 SPX neutral Bloomberg Open Interest · video
Valuations outside the US are much lower while the earnings growth differential between US and international markets is narrowing, making international diversification both a risk-reduction move against US concentration and a source of the next leg of…
“valuations outside the US are much much lower than inside the US”
Open Interest 9/25/2026
2026-04-01 SPX neutral Bloomberg Open Interest · video
Continued dollar weakening cycle, extraordinarily low valuations, and improving earnings outside the US make ex-US exposure attractive; the 2025 outperformance trend has been temporarily halted by oil prices, not ended
“we think it makes sense to have exposure outside of the US... continued pressure on the dollar... extraordinarily low valuations”
Oil Falls on War-End Optimism | Open Interest 4/1/2026

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