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Forum Fodder | Friday 24 March 2023

“New technologies have made panics and bank runs easier. It’s time our framework of policymaking and regulation responds.” - Nobel laureate in economics, Joseph E. Stiglitz (writing on 13 March 2023).

All the best for another week’s continuing education!
Graham

Finology

Finology Summit 2023 - Uncertainty | Exploring human factors in portfolio construction
AEST 8.30am-5.30pm Wednesday 03 May 2023
Finology Summit explores the human factors – beliefs, behaviours and principles - in portfolio construction. The focus of this year’s program is “Uncertainty”. Designed and curated by our specialist, experienced and independent team, the program features an exceptional Faculty of experts from around the world, each offering a high conviction perspective on a facet of investment uncertainty and/or certainty. This year’s program includes: Adam Ferrier on how humans are hard wired to deal with uncertainty; Clare Flynn Levy on how to master our biases to improve our investment skills; Elise Payzan-Le Nestour, PhD, on how neurofinance insights can improve investor decision-making; and, Herman Brodie on how to overcome the heuristics that have us make poor investment “sell” decisions.
Join us in person at our live studio, a live site, or via live stream | 7-11 CE | Register now!

Markets

Reimagining global integration
Speculation that the world is deglobalising misses the mark - global integration is evolving, not retreating, in the digital era. Our world has changed.
Olivia White and Jonathan Woetzel, McKinsey & Company | Read

Markets | Strategies | Rated in the top 3 at Markets Summit 2023

This time really IS different
Investors need to leverage the experience of past decades while also humbly contemplating an uncertain outlook. Compared to any post-WWII period, this time really is different!
Ronald Temple, Lazard Asset Management | 0.50 CE | Listen, Watch

Markets | Rated in the top 3 at Markets Summit 2023

It’s time to say goodbye to TINA
The pre-pandemic New Normal decade introduced investors to TINA - there is no alternative. With interest rates and bond yields having moved higher, it’s time to say goodbye to TINA because bonds are back.
Daniel Ivascyn, PIMCO | 0.50 CE | Listen, Watch

Finology | As seen at Finology Summit 2021

Helping clients decumulate responsibly promotes well-being
The mind-set that works so well when people are building their nest egg for retirement can damage their quality of life in retirement. We help clients accumulate responsibly - we can help them decumulate responsibly, too.
Meir Statman, Santa Clara University | 0.75 CE | Read, Listen, Watch

Finology | As seen at Finology Summit 2021

Simplicity wins in financial decision making
There are strong behavioural biases that attract investors to complex strategies. However, introducing complexity will, on average, diminish the odds of success and detract from returns.
Stephen Arnold, Aoris Investment Management | 0.50 CE | Listen, Watch

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

India at a crossroads
India is poised to become the world’s most important country in the medium term. Yet the model that has driven India’s growth now threatens to constrain it.
Nouriel Roubini, Roubini Macro Associates | Read

Markets | Strategies | Investing | As seen at Markets Summit 2023

Every VUCA cloud has a silver lining! Key takeouts
Our diverse panel of experts debated which of the high conviction propositions they heard during Markets Summit 2023 they most strongly agreed with and why, including identifying “silver linings” (investment opportunities not yet fully priced into the market) and which they disagreed with most and why - and the portfolio construction implications of both.
Jacob Mitchell, Katie Hudson, Richard Quin, Daniela Jaramillo, Tim Farrelly | 0.75 CE | Listen, Watch

Markets | Strategies

Markets Summit 2023 - Implementation Key Takeouts
There was plenty of food for thought and grist for the investment portfolio mill, coming out of the recent Markets Summit 2023 “Every VUCA cloud has a silver lining!”.
Jonathan Ramsay, InvestSense | Read, Listen, Watch

Finology | See more of Herman at Finology Summit 2023!

How finance got behavioural
Classical economists often incorporated human behaviour into their thinking. But in the 1960s and 1970s, homo economicus - the great rational agent of economic theory - was born. It was not until the 1990s that the link between human behaviour and economics began to be re-established.
Herman Brodie, Prospecta | 0.25 CE | Watch

Finology | See more of Adam at Finology Summit 2023!

The financial services industry has made money boring
The financial services industry has done the impossible and made money boring, opaque and difficult to understand. If we better understand the psychology of money, we can better help our clients.
Adam Ferrier, Thinkerbell | 0.50 CE | Listen, Watch

Markets

Sleepwalking toward accidental conflict
America, China, and Russia are collectively sleepwalking down a path of conflict escalation, carrying high-octane fuel that could be ignited all too easily. Just like 1914.
Stephen Roach, Yale University | Read

Markets | As seen at Markets Summit 2023

In every way, it is different this time
As the clouds of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity continue to swirl, the silver lining is that we are on the road back to normal monetary policy settings, from abnormal, and a return to more rational asset prices. But we must be patient.
Jonathan Pain, The Pain Report | 0.50 CE | Listen, Watch

Markets | Strategies

Spotlight on High Yield Debt investments
This Spotlight highlights that High Yield Debt can be a very useful addition to most investors’ portfolios, producing returns that are close to those of Equities, but with lower risk.
Tim Farrelly, farrelly’s Investment Strategy | Read

Finology

Investors are blind to what they do not want to see
The theory of cognitive dissonance was proposed in the 1930s by psychologist Leon Festinger. Understanding how cognitive dissonance can bias our investment decision making, and recognising when our behaviour is being driven by it, is vital.
Herman Brodie, Prospecta | 0.75 CE | Listen, Watch

Finology

Research Review: Hindsight bias and investing
Hindsight can be a valuable source of learning. However, hindsight is undermined by a range of factors and hindsight bias clouds judgments in all areas of life - including investing.
Rob Hamshar, Portfolio Construction Forum | 2.00 CE | Read

Markets

Too soon for global optimism
Many who attended this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos were struck by the jubilant mood of the CEOs in attendance. It was hard to reconcile this optimism economic uncertainty caused by the war in Ukraine.
Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University | Read

Markets

23 global developments to watch over the next five years
Uncertainty and change are unavoidable realities of life. In the spirit of thinking differently and embracing uncertainty, I offer you this year’s global developments to watch over the next five years.
Vikram Mansharaman, Harvard University | Read

Markets | Strategies

High inflation has a silver lining for portfolios
Brace for more market volatility in 2023, and orient portfolios to resilient fixed income and equity securities, and hedge fund and infrastructure managers.
Ronald Temple, Lazard Asset Management | Listen, Watch

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 | Listen, Watch

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