CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Harbor Capital Advisors, Inc. (“Harbor”), an asset manager focused on delivering differentiated investment solutions, today announced the launch of the Munificent Seven ETF (Ticker: BBLS), an actively managed thematic ETF designed to provide investors with exposure to the global energy and infrastructure companies believed to be positioned to benefit from the rapidly growing physical demands of AI, or artificial intelligence.
The launch builds upon Harbor’s recently introduced AI Lab Ecosystem ETF Suite, extending Harbor’s broader vision that AI has evolved into its own investable asset class with multiple layers of opportunity. While the AI Lab Ecosystem ETF suite provides targeted exposure to the frontier AI ecosystems developing next-generation intelligence, the Munificent Seven ETF focuses on the companies supplying the energy, infrastructure, and industrial capacity required to bring AI to scale.
Investing Beyond the Builders of AI
For much of the AI revolution, investor attention has centered on semiconductor manufacturers, hyperscalers, and software companies developing increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models. Harbor believes the next chapter of AI investing may be driven by a different question. Not simply, “Who will build AI?” But rather, “What will AI require to operate at global scale?”
Every new data center, foundation model, inference engine, and enterprise AI deployment requires enormous amounts of electricity, energy infrastructure, industrial equipment, transmission networks, and capital investment. The Munificent Seven ETF seeks to provide investors with concentrated exposure to companies believed to be positioned to benefit from those long-term structural demands.
Continuing Harbor’s Vision for AI as an Asset Class
“With the launch of the Harbor AI Lab Ecosystem ETFs, we introduced the idea that AI has evolved from a technology theme into its own asset class,” said Kristof Gleich, President and Chief Investment Officer of Harbor Capital Advisors. “The next step is recognizing that AI is becoming an industrial economy as much as a digital one. As Jeff Currie observed with the ‘Munificent Seven’ concept, the future of AI won’t necessarily be determined only by the companies building intelligence. It will also depend on the companies supplying the energy, infrastructure, and physical assets required to power it. The Munificent Seven ETF extends our AI platform by giving investors a differentiated way to participate in that next phase of AI’s evolution.”
The Physical Infrastructure Behind AI
Unlike traditional AI investment strategies that primarily focus on technology companies, The Munificent Seven ETF seeks exposure to leading global energy and infrastructure companies believed to be positioned to benefit from expanding AI-related electricity demand and industrial investment. Harbor believes artificial intelligence is becoming an industrial revolution as much as a technological one.
As AI adoption accelerates, demand for:
- electricity generation
- natural gas
- transmission infrastructure
- industrial equipment
- physical resource development
- energy infrastructure and
- capital investment
may continue expanding alongside the technology itself.
The Munificent Seven ETF seeks to help investors participate in this complementary layer of the AI value chain.
Why the Harbor Munificent Seven ETF?
Rather than replacing traditional AI allocations, Harbor believes the Munificent Seven ETF complements them by providing exposure to companies enabling AI’s continued expansion. The actively managed strategy focuses on a concentrated portfolio of globally significant energy companies while retaining flexibility to invest in additional businesses Harbor believes are positioned to benefit from AI-driven infrastructure demand.
The investment process combines the following attributes in an effort to identify companies participating in the physical infrastructure supporting artificial intelligence:
- top-down macroeconomic analysis
- company fundamentals
- capital allocation
- long-term energy demand trends
- infrastructure scarcity
- active portfolio management
A Modular Approach to AI Investing
Harbor views artificial intelligence as an increasingly diverse investment opportunity that extends well beyond any single technology company or industry. The Harbor AI Lab Ecosystem ETF Suite introduced investors to differentiated exposure across the leading frontier AI ecosystems.
The Harbor Munificent Seven ETF expands that framework by providing exposure to another critical layer of the AI economy: the infrastructure that enables intelligence to scale. Together, these strategies reflect Harbor’s broader vision of developing modular investment building blocks that allow investors to express different views across the evolving AI landscape while maintaining flexibility as new opportunities emerge. Harbor expects to continue innovating within its growing family of AI-focused exposure ETFs as the artificial intelligence ecosystem continues to evolve.
Built for Long-Term Investors
The Munificent Seven ETF seeks long-term exposure to one of the defining secular investment trends of the coming decades. Rather than attempting to predict short-term winners, the strategy seeks to identify companies believed to be positioned to benefit from the expanding physical infrastructure supporting artificial intelligence. Harbor believes this infrastructure-focused approach offers investors a differentiated way to participate in AI’s continued industrialization while complementing traditional technology-focused allocations.
About Harbor Capital
Harbor Capital Advisors is an asset manager with an AUM of $69.9 billion as of June 30, 2026 with a long history of partnering with specialized investment managers to deliver actively managed ETFs, mutual funds, and collective investment trusts. Advisors looking for differentiated investment solutions often connect with Harbor’s commitment to providing thoughtful portfolio construction tools designed to help meet evolving client needs. For more information, visit www.harborcapital.com.
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Investing involves risk, principal loss is possible. Unlike mutual funds, ETFs may trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value. Harbor ETFs are new and have limited operating history to judge.
There is no guarantee that the investment objective of the Fund will be achieved. Stock markets are volatile and equity values can decline significantly in response to adverse issuer, political, regulatory, market, and economic conditions. Investments in energy companies may be adversely affected by changes in energy prices, commodity price volatility, and economic, geopolitical, regulatory, and environmental developments, which may result in greater volatility than the broader market. Swap agreements involve counterparty, liquidity, leverage, and correlation risks and may not provide the desired exposure, which could adversely affect the Fund’s performance and ability to achieve its investment objective. Investments in foreign issuers may be subject to greater political, economic, regulatory, currency, and market risks than investments in U.S. issuers. American Depository Receipts (ADRs) are subject to the risks of investing in foreign securities and may involve additional liquidity and operational risks. A non-diversified Fund may be more susceptible to risks affecting a single issuer or event than a diversified portfolio.
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