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Monday Club – 25/08/25: Your weekly Wealthwise digest
Opinion
Mean Reversion Machine – Machine learnings
A regular excuse to use fantasy football as a metaphor for portfolio management
Boutique Critique: Langdon Global Smaller Companies
The boutique structure is best for fostering independently-minded stockpickers, argues Alex Paget
Monday Club – 18/08/25: Your weekly Wealthwise digest
The week that was, the week that will be – plus, in focus, ‘EMpowered’ and ‘Wanted: animal spirits’
Partner zone
How can investors navigate a mad, mad, mad, mad world?
Aberdeen Investments
Are the “Magnificent Seven” trees causing us to miss the forest of global equities?
CARMIGNAC
The digital finance revolution
Baillie Gifford
The Rise of Agentic AI: Scaling beyond human limits
Polar Capital
Absolute Insight: Beneath the surface of the pod shops’ rise
The US multi-strategy giants are booming but, asks Ian Willings, are they really an absolute-return panacea?
Angels and demons
The chairman of the insignificantly sized investment company TwoHoots Asset Management offers some help on overcoming a phobia
Monday Club – 11/08/25: Your weekly Wealthwise digest
The week that was, the week that will be plus, in focus, ‘Q2 earnings clues’ and ‘Sting in the tale’
Andy Parsons: When the going is good
Advisers need to be interrogating MPS outperformance as well as underperformance
GIB Asset Management
Emerging Markets in 2025: What consensus might have got wrong?
While we have often remarked that the asset class is the realm of optimists, the last decade has been challenging...
Research Affiliates
How Can “Smart Beta” Go Horribly Right?
Since its rise to popularity nearly a decade ago, “smart beta” investing has gone horribly wrong relative to expectations.
PIMCO
Generating yield with resilience: positioning in today’s market
In today’s markets, generating yield without sacrificing resilience is paramount. Group CIO Dan Ivascyn discusses how our income approach leverages...
CCLA
Q&A with CCLA’s Dr James Corah
Dr James Corah explains how ‘engagement’ can be a viable investment strategy
Choice words
Choice Words: David Coombs, head of multi-asset investments at Rathbones AM
On getting properly paid for risk, staying humble and the ‘dinner party chat’ test
18:59 min
Choice Words: Ian Wood, CIO at Titan Investment Solutions
On compounding returns, valuation discipline and wealth managers’ duty of care to clients
15:01 min
Choice Words: Ben Kumar, head of equity strategy at 7IM
On looking at assets classes with fresh eyes, doing your own research and Roman round the City
14.19 min
More choice words videos
Watch: Choice Words: Justin Oliver, CIO at Canaccord Genuity Funds
Watch: Choice Words: Tessa Mann, head of macro and multi-asset strategy at WTW
Watch: Choice Words ‘Sector Special’: Linden Thomson, Candriam
Partner Video
Investment views: US midcaps are a ‘tremendous fishing pond’ for active investors
Barrow & Hanley head of US equities Mark Giambrone makes the case for an allocation to US midcaps
01:52 min
Podcast
Gold is exciting, but what about Silver? Baker Steel’s David Baker, Episode 2
Baker Steel’s David Baker discusses why investors can remain optimistic on the outlook for gold-mining equities – and arguably be...
23:48 min
Investment views: ‘Carbon is probably the most impactful investment you can have’
KraneShares head of strategy Luke Oliver on the case for investing in carbon
08:55 min
Is there an alternative approach to alternatives?
Should wealth managers target less traditional asset classes or just a more thoughtful equity and bond allocation?
Better business
The changing nature of client vulnerability
Spotting and accommodating vulnerability must sit at the heart of any adviser business’s culture