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Axios: Ayako Yoshioka Featured in "Why the Big Tech’s “circular funding” for AI could be the new business normal"

Ayako Yoshioka

- CFA®

10/23/2025

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Ayako Yoshioka, CFA®, Portfolio Consulting Director at Wealth Enhancement, was featured by Axios in the article, “Why the Big Tech’s “circular funding” for AI could be the new business normal” 

These smaller startups are putting out record capital to fund data center builds without the cash flow to back it up, Yoshioka says, leaving them potentially at higher risk of any spending slowdown from their biggest customers. 

Read the full article: https://www.axios.com/2025/10/23/ai-boom-circular-financing 

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Portfolio Consulting Director

Los Angeles, CA

Over the course of her career in the investment and wealth management industry, Ayako has held many roles, and she has done them all with great success. She began her career in Institutional Client Relations and Marketing, before moving on to become a Portfolio Analyst, monitoring portfolio trading and guidelines for over $4 Billion in equity securities.

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