The supply-chain disruptions during the Covid pandemic look almost quaint compared to the fundamental reordering of global trade now underway and which threatens a prolonged period of stagflation.

Established in 2002, Strategies Summit is THE portfolio construction strategies conference of the year. Presented each August, the program features 50+ carefully selected leading investment thinkers who will challenge and refresh your portfolio construction thinking by debating contemporary and emerging portfolio construction strategies, for you to consider applying in practice to build better quality portfolios.

Our Markets Summit program kicks off with a video retrospective of the key events of the prior year...

Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) is the peak, international technical portfolio construction certification program designed for investment management analysts - that is, those involved in any aspect of constructing multi-asset, multi-manager portfolios.

With monetary policy easing set to provide an additional tailwind for smaller companies, now is the time for practitioners to consider increasing global small caps exposure in portfolios.

The economic damage Trump could cause will be moderate, according to Woody Brock. His bigger concern is what could go wrong with foreign policy under Trump because, in Woody's view, the probability of a global war is higher than it has been in decades.

In a world where Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity are ever-present and ever-changing, the act of investing is about assessing probabilities and payoffs, not trying to predict what will happen.

Supporters often say that a businessman like Trump or Musk will know how to put America's fiscal house in order. But the smart money says they have no idea what they are doing.

What's new with our live and on-demand continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.

At one extreme, the whole investment decision-making process could be turned over to AI - at the other, it can just be used in data collection. These two papers capture the challenges of integrating AI into funds management and financial advice processes.

Manufacturing reshoring by global multinationals is key to economic development in frontier and emerging markets. Understanding the shifting dynamics can be critical to investment decision-making at both the country and sector level.

These tutorials relate to the IMAC 2024 lectures and are available to CIMA candidates enrolled in the CIMA Certification Asia Pacific Program 2024.

The things that make people, people, are also the things that bind our portfolio construction methods together. We are impacted not only by our biases in behaviour, but also by the biases we hold that we're not even aware we hold.

To gain deeper insights, critical to long-term investing, we must adapt by integrating finance with other disciplines. Adopting a holistic perspective can greatly improve problem-solving, bringing valuable benefits to our clients' portfolios.

Our diverse panel of asset class experts discussed and clarified the implications of four economic scenarios for the medium-term (three-year) outlook for key asset classes, and then the Investment Committee (Summit delegates) voted to determine probabilities for each of the scenarios as inputs to the Asset Allocation Roundtable.

Picking up on the inputs from the Asset Class Outlook Roundtable and the Investment Committee's views (as expressed by delegates' votes), our asset allocation panel debated the key asset allocation and implementation decisions for the hypothetical portfolio for the coming 12 months.

Our diverse panel of experts identified their key takeouts from Strategies Summit 2024 and the portfolio construction implications.

Multi-asset, multi-manager investment portfolios can be viewed as complex machines that, if properly assembled and managed, provide benefits far outweighing those of their individual components. The whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts! Strategies Summit 2024 (Wed-Thu 21-22 Aug) challenged and refreshed delegates' portfolio construction thinking by debating contemporary and emerging portfolio construction strategies to help them build better quality portfolios.

Wetware-powered AI is changing the way we manage risk and uncertainty, including in financial markets. Its rise will also profoundly change how humans think about the nature of reality — in finance and more generally.

This lecture instructs IMAC candidates on the fundamentals of client discovery and formulating an Investment Policy Statement in the investment consulting context.