The future is here and it is AI – anyone not in it is wasting time in consumer business. Period.

Amazon issued a press release today that indicates customers “gifted a record-setting number of devices from the Amazon Echo family, with sales up over 9x compared to last year’s holiday season and millions of Alexa devices sold worldwide this year.”

“Echo and Echo Dot were the best-selling products across Amazon this year, and we’re thrilled that millions of new customers will be introduced to Alexa as a result. Despite our best efforts and ramped-up production, we still had trouble keeping them in stock,” Jeff Wilke, Amazon’s CEO of Worldwide Consumer, said in a statement.

As you begin 2017, think of how AI can boost your business. It is AI or perish!

Since Donald Trump became President-elect of the United States, emerging market stocks are down nearly 7.0%, based on the Morgan Stanley Capital Index. That could indicate that U.S. fund managers will be moving away from emerging economies. If you think so, you will be wrong.

The fact is that a number of global fund managers say they are buying emerging market assets for 2017 after the beating the sector has taken since the U.S. election in November, even though credit rating agencies have a less positive outlook.

One of those moneymen is Michel Del Buono, head of portfolio strategy at Makena Capital Management LLC, who oversees $18 billion across asset classes. He is bullish on emerging markets. According to Reuters, this is where his mind is right now:

“If you’re exposed in the right way and you have a long-term perspective you should keep a significant weighting to emerging markets,” he said.

Del Buono said he favors investments in things like healthcare, retail and for-profit education in places like Nigeria, Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates.

Since Nigeria does not have for-profit universities, the areas Del Buono will be deploying capital are largely healthcare and retail. So, if you want to track the moneymen in Nigeria, get into these two areas.