Stanley Druckenmiller says this is how he’d build a portfolio from scratch right now

Stanley Druckenmiller says this is how he’d build a portfolio from scratch right now Stanley Druckenmiller says artificial intelligence is no longer playing a starring role in his investments, as he focuses more on hard assets like copper and a more diversified portfolio of stocks. The closely followed investor, who runs the Duquesne Family Office, made the comments in an interview for “Hard Lessons,” a Morgan Stanley podcast that was published on Friday. He was asked by liana Bouzali, Morgan Stanley’s global head of derivatives, distribution and structuring, how he would construct a hedge-fund portfolio from scratch today. Continue reading your article witha MarketWatch subscription Barbara Kollmeyer is based in Madrid, where she leads MarketWatch's pre-markets coverage of financial markets and writes the Need to Know column. She has worked in London and Los Angeles for MarketWatch previously. Follow her on Twitter @bkollmeyer. Copyright © 2026 MarketWatch, Inc. All rights reserved.