Events
At Absolute Strategy Research we believe in giving our clients exclusive access to industry experts covering a wide-range of themes. Absolute Exchange and Absolute Connect Webinars are presented weekly.
If an Absolute Exchange Event is of interest, or you'd like access to a recording of a past event, please register your interest by filling in the form below.
Up-and-Coming Client Events
Absolute Connect Webinar - German Politics Focus
Friday 23rd April
Time:
3:00pm BST,
10:00am EDT,
4:00pm CEST.
"How the Green Party could dominate this September's General Election" with Heinz Schulte, ASR's German Political Consultant, and ASR's Co-founder David Bowers.
In this "Absolute Connect" Webinar, David & Heinz will explore what this could mean for this September's German elections - including the very real possibility that the next German government could be led by the Green Party - as well as some possible implications for investors.
Previous Client Events
Absolute Connect Webinar - Alternative Assets Focus
9th April 2021
In this "Absolute Connect" Webinar, ASR's Alternatives and Asset Allocation Strategist, Zahra Ward-Murphy will spend 20-25 minutes speaking on the ASR Alternatives view with a focus on the outlook for commodities.
Absolute Connect Webinar -
Q1 2021 Asset Allocation Survey Results
19th March 2021
In this "Absolute Connect" Webinar, ASR's Co-Founder, David Bowers & Quant Strategist, Charles Cara will discuss the results of ASR's latest Asset-Allocation Survey. The quarterly Survey (now in its seventh year) explores how over 200 global CIOs, Asset Allocators, and Multi-Asset Strategists view the prospects for financial markets over the next 12 months. One year on from the outbreak of CoVID 19, after a year of unprecedented market moves, fiscal easing and events we are (hopefully) only likely to see once in our lifetimes this survey will be particularly poignant.
Absolute Connect Webinar - Fixed-Income Focus
12th March 2021
In this "Absolute Exchange" Webinar, ASR’s Head of Fixed Income Strategy, Stefano Di Domizio will take 20-25 minutes to discuss fixed-income market strategy and investing ideas following the recent bond market sell-off.
Absolute Connect Webinar -
Equity Markets from a Quant Perspective
5th March 2021
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, ASR’s Quant Strategist, Charles Cara, will take 20-25 minutes to discuss how the dispersion and correlations in the equity market have changed this year as companies have returned to earnings growth and surprised consensus.
Absolute Exchange Webinar -
Will Biden’s administration be transformative?
4th March 2021
In this "Absolute Exchange" Webinar, US political risk specialist and former member of the Obama administration Kim Wallace is once again being interviewed by ASR's Political Analyst Richard Mylles.
Absolute Connect Webinar -
COVID - Catalyst for Regime Change
26th February 2021
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, ASR’s Co-founder, David Bowers and ASR’s Head of Thematics, Michael Hessel will take 20-25 minutes to discuss ASR’s views on some of the structural changes that have been brought on by the COVID pandemic and their potential impact on financial markets.
Absolute Connect Webinar - Sentiment & Multi-Asset Focus
19th February 2021
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, ASR’s Head of Technical Strategy, David McBain and Head of Multi-Asset Strategy, Chris Turner, will take 20-25 minutes to discuss ASR's proprietary SBIs (Sentiment Barometer Indicators) and a Tactical Trading framework we have developed that uses SBIs and Options Skew to exploit dislocations in investor sentiment and positioning.
Absolute Connect Webinar - Economics Data Focus
12th February 2021
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, Ben Blanchard & Anthony Abrahamian will take 20-25 minutes to discuss the recent surge in shipping costs from China, and how our logistics dataset can help track the story.
Absolute Exchange Webinar - The Great Demographic Reversal
11th February 2021
In this “Absolute Exchange” webinar, Professor Charles Goodhart and Dr Manoj Pradhan will talk to their book ‘The Great Demographic Reversal’. The book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends - it will raise inflation and interest rates, but lead to a pullback in inequality.
This thesis should be of interest to anyone with an interest in macro strategy and strategic asset allocation.
Moderators: Dominic White (ASR's Chief Economist) and David Bowers (ASR's Head of Research)
Absolute Exchange Webinar - Bitcoin & Digital Assets:
"What Institutional Investors Need to Know" with Guest Speaker, Doug Schwenk, Chairman & CEO of Digital Asset Research
3rd February 2021
In this “Absolute Exchange” webinar, Doug will provide an introduction to Bitcoin and other Digital Assets, looking at the how they operate. He will discuss how the infrastructure has changed recently and examine the issues that might affect institutional investors in these assets. After an introductory presentation there will be the usual opportunity for Q&A
Absolute Connect Webinar -
Emerging Markets Default Risk Focus
5th February 2021
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, Adam will take 20-25 minutes to discuss our new EM Default Risk Index of 79 EM countries which suggests that hard-currency bond spreads for lower rated EMs may be underestimating default risk.
Absolute Connect Webinar - Asset Allocation Focus
Friday 29th January
Time:
3:00pm GMT,
10:00am EDT,
4:00pm CEST.
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, Ian Harnett, ASR's Chief Investment Strategist, will take 20-25 minutes to discuss the updates in our Asset Allocation Quarterly.
Absolute Connect Webinar -
Factor Investing Focus - ASR’s 5 pillar framework
22nd January 2021
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, Charles Cara will take 20-25 minutes to discuss how ASR’s 5 pillar framework can be applied to equity factors. While factors are often promoted as strategies to hold for the long run, recent performance has shown the need to take a more tactical approach. ASR’s 5 pillars provide a framework to understand the impact of the macro cycle, earnings, valuations, risk and momentum on the main equity factors.
Absolute Connect Webinar -Why the CDU Leadership Outcome is Critical for Germany's Election in September
18th January 2021
We are delighted to invite you to an Absolute Connect Webinar Event which will feature ASR’s German Political Consultant, Heinz Schulte discussing ‘Why the CDU Leadership Outcome is Critical for Germany's Election in September’ on Monday 18th January.
Absolute Connect Webinar -
Multi-Asset Themes & Trades for 2021
15th January 2021
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, Chris Turner (Head of Multi-Asset Strategy) and Stefano DiDomizio (Head of Fixed-Income Strategy) will take 20-25 minutes to discuss ASR’s Multi Asset Themes and Trade ideas for 2021.
Absolute Exchange Webinar -
What Joe Biden's Presidency could mean for investors
13th January 2021
This “Absolute Exchange” webinar will feature US political risk specialist and former member of the Obama administration Kim Wallace being interviewed by ASR's Political Analyst Richard Mylles.
Absolute Connect Webinar - The Alternative Year Ahead
18th December 2020
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, ASR Chief Economist Dominic White & the Economics team will discuss the alternative scenarios to our central view for the coming year and where we could be challenged in 2021!
Absolute Connect Webinar -
Q4 2020 Asset Allocation Survey Results
11th December 2020
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, Head of Research David Bowers & Head of Quant Strategy Charles Cara will discuss the results of ASR's latest Asset-Allocation Survey. The quarterly Survey (now in its seventh year) explores how over 200 global CIOs, Asset Allocators, and Multi-Asset Strategists view the prospects for financial markets over the next 12 months.
Absolute Connect Webinar - Equity Strategy in Focus
4th December 2020
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, Ian Harnett, ASR's co-founder and Chief Investment Strategist, will discuss some of the key ‘controversies’ facing Equity investors in 2021 and explore how our economic outlook resolves some of those questions. This webinar will also discuss the new ASR Sector and Regional Equity allocations that will be published the day before (Thursday 3rd).
Absolute Connect Webinar - Economics
China 2035: Xi’s growth gambit
27th November 2020
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, Adam Wolfe, ASR's Emerging Markets Economist, will discuss China’s new Economic plan which aims to double GDP by 2035 and the challenges this plan might face.
Absolute Connect Webinar - Asset Allocation
Challenges to Asset Allocation from rising bond yields
and low credit spreads
20th November 2020
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, hosted by ASR's Asset Allocation Strategist, Jonathon Griggs & Head of Multi-Asset Strategy, Chris Turner will discuss current ASR Asset Allocation views and the challenges that rising bond yields could pose to these.
Absolute Connect Webinar - Investment Strategy
Strategy Impact of the Vaccine White Swan
13th November 2020
ASR's Co-Founders Ian Harnett & David Bowers discuss the ‘Vaccine White Swan’ - how this can drive market volatility, the rotation out of US Tech towards Eurozone Value and why the recent moves fit our ‘regime change’ model.
Absolute Connect Webinar - Economics
5 ways Covid-19 has changed the world
6th November 2020
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, Dominic White, ASR's Chief Economist, and his team will discuss the profound, lasting impact the pandemic will have on how the global economy behaves, focussing on 5 key changes that have already taken place.
Absolute Connect Webinar - Technical Strategy
How are markets positioned heading into the US Election?
30th October 2020
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, David McBain reviews the technicals and sentiment profile of markets ahead of US Election week, highlighting underlying tension in equities versus bonds and the important interplay between bonds, FX and industrial commodities.
Absolute Connect Webinar - Key Questions on the US Election
23rd October 2020
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, Richard Mylles, ASR's Political Analyst, will take 20-25 minutes to discuss in more detail key issues within the 20 key questions from his top down analysis of the forthcoming US election.
Absolute Connect Webinar - 10 Toughest Strategy Questions
16th October 2020
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, Ian Harnett, ASR's Chief Investment Strategist, will take 20-25 minutes to answer to the 10 toughest questions that clients posed to David and Ian during their recent meetings where they spoke with over 100 global investors based in the UK, Europe, the US, Asia & Australasia.
Absolute Connect Webinar - The End of the Buyback?
9th October 2020
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, ASR's Head of Quant Strategy, Charles Cara, will take 20-25 minutes to discuss the outlook for Buybacks which were cut by 50% in Q2, and the impact this might have on the market.
Absolute Connect Webinar - What's China's Plan?
2nd October 2020
In this “Absolute Connect” webinar, ASR's Emerging Markets Economist, Adam Wolfe, gives an update on China ahead of the Communist Party’s Plenum that kicks off October 26, where the top leaders will sign off on the next Five-year plan.
Adam talks in detail on his recent China's dual circulation strategy note and where the economy is headed.
Absolute Exchange Webinar - with Ludovic Phalippou
30th September 2020
In this Absolute Exchange, Ludovic Phalippou, Professor of Financial Economics at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, will lead a discussion on private equity, ‘Does private equity offer superior returns’, and at what cost?’’

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