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Forum Fodder | Friday 02 December 2022

“I had a bad month.” - Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, in an interview at The New York Times Dealbook Summit (30 November 2022)

All the best for another week’s continuing education!
Graham
P.S. Check out below what’s new with our upcoming live and latest on-demand continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.

Markets

Markets Summit 2023 “It’s an ill wind that blows no good!”
AEDT 8.30am-5.30pm Wednesday 22 Feb 2023
For the first time in decades, an inflationary gale is rattling financial markets. This once-in-a-career regime shift is up-ending long-held investor beliefs and poses many challenges for portfolio construction practitioners. Yet, opportunities abound for those able to identify the powerful forces reshaping the outlook for markets and reorientate their portfolios accordingly. It’s an ill wind that blows no good!
Markets Summit will help you better understand the key drivers of and outlook for the markets, and the opportunities and risks ahead on a three- to five-year view, to aid your search for return and to help you build better quality investor portfolios.
Join us in person at our live studio, a live site, or via live stream | 7-11 CE | Register now!

Markets

Will crypto survive?
FTX may be the biggest scandal in crypto so far. But, to paraphrase Mark Twain, rumours of the death of crypto itself have been much exaggerated.
Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University | Read

Markets | Strategies

The US and world economy, and inflation
Nine months ago, we were told that the world would be in recession today. This did not quite happen. Now we are assured that 2023 will see a global recession, even in the US.
Woody Brock, Strategic Economic Decisions | Read

Markets | As seen at Strategies Conference 2022

Economic Scenarios Roundtable: The future ain’t what it used to be!
In stage two of our hypothetical Investment Committee meeting, three economists described and debated three plausible, forward-looking economic and market scenarios that have a reasonable probability of occurring during the next two to three years.
Dominique Dwor-Frecaut, Andrew Hunt, John McDermott | 0.75 CE | Watch, Listen

Markets | Strategies | As seen at Strategies Conference 2022

Asset Class Outlook Roundtable: Future ain’t what it used to be!
In this third step of our hypothetical Investment Committee meeting, a diverse panel of asset class experts debated the implications of the three economic scenarios outlined in the Economic Scenarios Roundtable for medium-term (three years) asset class returns.
Rob Mead, Joseph Lai, Jacob Mitchell and Isaac Poole | 0.75 CE | Watch, Listen

Markets | Strategies | As seen at Strategies Conference 2022

Alternatives Roundtable: The future ain’t what it used to be!
There is increasing traction for the idea that, to succeed in today’s complex, uncertain world of investing, practitioners must embrace alternative investment strategies. But are they all they’re made out to be?
Tony Davidow, Angela Ashton, Piers Bolger & Razvan Remsing | 0.75 CE | Watch, Listen

Finology | Invitation to investment advisers

Complimentary self-assessment to benchmark your Client Care & Practice knowledge and skills
Financial advisers must continually improve their client care and practice knowledge and skills - doing so makes obvious business sense. Our new Finology Benchmarking Indices (FBI) self assessment tool helps you benchmark your investing biases, beliefs and behaviours versus peers, to further empower your “client care and practice” knowledge and skills. It’s complimentary to our members who give investment advice, while we continue to develop it.
Portfolio Construction Forum | 0.50 CE | Take the FBI self-assessment

Philosophy | Finology

Behavioural Finance: Investment decision-making short course
Led by behavioural finance expert, Herman Brodie, the Behavioural Finance - Investment Decision-Making course will help you identify, analyse and evaluate the principal human preferences that influence decision-making in situations of uncertainty, so you can recognise and identify these preferences in others, to improve investment decision-making.
Herman Brodie | 8.00 CE | Enrol

Markets

What should jittery China investors do?
Western investors in China face a completely different economic terrain than the one in which they operated for more than a decade. In a rapidly deglobalising world, investors must consider their next moves carefully.
Dambisa Moyo, Versaca Investments | Read

Markets | Strategies | Investing | As seen at Strategies Conference 2022

Researchers’ Roundtable: The future ain’t what it used to be!
Practitioners must remain open-minded and continuously challenge their portfolio construction beliefs, techniques and tools. This session addressed three contemporary portfolio construction issues: We must use a risk-based framework for portfolio design; The value rotation has just begun; and, ESG ratings undervalue climate solutions…
Philipp Hofflin, Michael Furey, Michael Salvatico, David Wright | 0.75 CE | Watch, Listen

Markets | Strategies | Investing | As seen at Strategies Conference 2022

Infrastructure’s inflation hedge is real, yet misunderstood
Infrastructure’s unique inflation hedge characteristics protect companies and investors while allowing a tailwind of asset base growth to drive long-term total returns.
Shane Hurst, ClearBridge Investments | 0.50 CE | Watch, Listen

Strategies | Investing | As seen at Strategies Conference 2022

The future of private debt IS what it used to be!
If the question is how to achieve an attractive risk-adjusted return through all economic environments, then private debt is the answer. The future ain’t what it used to be - except for private debt.
Andrew Lockhart, Metrics Credit Partners | 0.50 CE | Watch, Listen

Investing

Research Roundtable: Warakirri Diversified Agriculture
This Research Roundtable focused on the Warakirri Diversified Agriculture strategy, with senior practitioners deciding, after briefings, Q&A and debate, their individual rating for the strategy and whether to include it on a hypothetical APL and/or multi-manager portfolios.
Portfolio Construction Forum | 1.50 CE | Read, Watch

Markets

The age of megathreats
The world has entered a geopolitical depression with dangerous revisionist powers challenging the economic, financial, security, and geopolitical order that the US and its allies created after WWII.
Nouriel Roubini, Roubini Macro Associates | Read

Markets | Strategies

Spotlight on surviving bear markets
While equities do outperform in the long-term, the price we pay are the bear markets which periodically come along to test our staying power. This Spotlight is a guide to help investors survive bear markets.
Tim Farrelly, farrelly’s Investment Strategy | Read | Subscribe to Spotlight

Markets | Strategies As seen at Strategies Conference 2022

Asset Allocation Roundtable: Designing portfolios for future scenarios is critical
Our asset allocation consultants explain the asset allocation implications of the three Economic Scenarios and blended portfolio, and debate how best to implement the portfolio.
Sébastien Page, Tim Farrelly, Lydia Kav, Jonathan Ramsay, and David Wright | 0.75 CE | Watch, Listen

Strategies | As seen at Strategies Conference 2022

Private equity investing is critical in times of market turbulence
Private equity as an asset class is one of the longest-term strategies. Setting up a solid top-down framework is key to successful private equity portfolio construction.
Pauline Wetter, LGT Capital Partners | 0.50 CE | Watch, Listen

Investing

Research Roundtable: Warakirri Global Emerging Markets
This Research Roundtable focused on the Warakirri Global Emerging Markets strategy, with senior practitioners deciding, after briefings, Q&A and debate, their individual rating for the strategy and whether to include it on a hypothetical APL and/or multi-manager portfolios.
Portfolio Construction Forum | 1.50 CE | Read, Watch

Markets

Xi’s conflict-prone China
The outcome of the 20th Party Congress underscores an important distinction between economic growth “with Chinese characteristics” as it has long been described, and a very different strain of development with Xi Jinping characteristics.
Stephen Roach, Yale University | Read

Markets | Strategies | Rated in the top 5 at Strategies Conference 2022

Macro Markets Roundtable: The future ain’t what it used to be!
Investors began 2022 in bullish form however rising inflation concerns combined with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine soon soured the mood. More than ever, practitioners need to understand the key secular and structural forces impacting on markets and the portfolio construction implications.
Jonathan Pain, Marc Seidner, Andrew Clifford, Nikki Thomas | 1.00 CE | Watch, Listen

Strategies | Investing | Philosophy | As seen at Strategies Conference 2022

Sustainable investors need to go beyond ESG and target SDGs
Sustainable investing is booming - and sustainable investors need to align their strategies with sustainable development ambitions. The Sustainable Development Goals provide a valuable blueprint.
Jan Anton van Zanten | 0.50 CE | Watch, Listen

Markets | Strategies | Philosophy | As seen at Strategies Conference 2022

Your world is your “green” bond
Investing and engaging for change, committing to tackling the climate-related risks that threaten the future of the planet is our duty or our future ain’t what it used to be!
Ecaterina Bigos, AXA Investment Managers | 0.50 CE | Watch, Listen

Investing

Research Roundtable: Fidelity Global Future Leaders
This Research Roundtable focused on the Fidelity Global Future Leaders strategy, with senior practitioners deciding, after briefings, Q&A and debate, their individual rating for the strategy and whether to include it on a hypothetical APL and/or multi-manager portfolios.
Portfolio Construction Forum | 1.50 CE | Read, Watch

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