erin browne out today with her new asset allocation outlook and joins me for an exclusive interview.u. >> nice to be here. >> one thing that jumps out to me is that this is what you told our producers. you are modestly -- you have modestly overweight equities, which sounds like a, dare i sa , modest drop down from where you were before. am i right or wrong? >> are positioning really hasn't changed with inequities in terms of the aggregate length. on a scale of -10 to positive 10, five out of 10. equities relative to where we have been. that remains consistent, but we are broadening the lens in terms of exposures outside of ai tech into a much broader diversified set of assets that we now like within equities. >> you are a believer in the broadening story? if you are moving to diversify away from tech, where are you diversifying into? >> first, starting to see a change and turn in the global pmi's, so you are saying manufacturing growth bounce up. not only that, but you are seeing export orders from our largest trading partners who start to pivot positively and incrementally. some of