WTFinance, Released on 5/26/23 (Recorded on 5/24/23)

During our conversation we spoke about the rising risk in the markets, whether we will see the FED put re-emerge, how to protect your portfolio from a market ‘air pocket’ and what would be needed to avoid a hard landing. I hope you enjoy!

0:00 – Introduction
1:00 – What is Grant seeing in the markets?
4:20 – Uncommon events more likely to happen
5:30 – The risk of concentration in markets?
8:45 – Crowded trades move quickly
10:15 – The FED put
14:10 – What would happen if interest rates remain high?
16:05 – A push away from monetary to fiscal policy
18:45 – Results of a credit event?
22:23 – How do you protect from a market ‘air pocket’?
26:25 – How to know what to be worried about?
27:15 – Could there be a soft landing and how would it be achieved?
29:20 – Any key trends not given enough attention?
38:30 – What does bottom up and top down mean?
41:54 – One message to takeaway from our conversation?

Grant Williams is a portfolio and strategy advisor to Vulpes Investment Management in Singapore and an Advisor to Matterhorn Asset Management in Switzerland and the founder and publisher of Things That Make You Go Hmmm… and the Grant Williams Podcast. Grant has decades of experience in finance on the Asian, Australian, European and US markets and has held senior positions at several international investment houses, including Robert Fleming, UBS and Credit Suisse.

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