On the eve of the Rugby World Cup, Adam and Scott went up-and-under with Chris Fidyk of Pacific Asset Management on how to avoid the scrum of mega cap US equities. Having spent the past decade investing in the technology winners at a previous investment group, Chris recently launched on his own and now sees the opportunity set away from the largest stocks in the US market.

This month Adam and Paul are in conversation with David Mitchinson from Japan equity boutique Zennor Asset Management. Long known as the ‘widow-maker’ trade, buying Japanese assets has been a fool’s errand for the past twenty years. Is there really something different about today’s Japanese opportunity or will investors have Tamago on their faces once more?

With eyes focused on the Coronation festivities we take a timely look at UK equities. Paul and Adam chat with Artemis’s Ed Legget – they discuss why the asset class has been out of favour for so long and ask whether it’s a market of the past or home to overlooked diamonds.

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In this month's podcast, Adam & Scott chat China equities with Man GLG's Andrew Swan. With state intervention, property woes and covid lockdowns now behind us, will equity markets run hard in the Chinese year of the rabbit? 

We kick off 2023 with Strategas Research Partner’s Ryan Grabinski. Discussing what lies in store for the year ahead we chat markets, inflation and crypto. We also revisit our predictions for 2022 – did we get the big themes right or were we way off track?

Can dirty become clean? Adam and Scott sit down with John Teahan of Redwheel Value & Income Team. As large investors in energy, banks and commodities, John explains why he believes that owning and engaging with resource-intensive companies is more powerful than blanket divestment. We explore whether the oil majors can ever be trusted to help deliver the energy transition and how groups such as Redwheel hold their feet to the fire.

Not-Gilty, Your Honour. In this podcast, Adam and Kelly judge the recent UK bond market moves with Allianz pairing Mike Riddell and Guarav Saroliya

The defence: Government pressures are a global phenomenon.

The cross-examination: The UK Government (of the day!) pouring petrol on an already flaming bond market

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Could more renewable power capacity be the answer to soaring energy costs? Adam chats to Phil Kent and Max Gilbert of Gravis Capital Partners – a boutique asset manager specialising in long-term infrastructure-orientated investments. We explore the potential of the clean energy sector as both a solution to the energy crisis and as an investment opportunity.

Our recent (and much delayed) US research trip finished with a visit to New York and the offices of deep value specialist Pzena Investment. Adam and Scott chat to founder Richard Pzena about his approach to value investing – cheap doesn’t necessarily mean value so how do Richard and his team differentiate between good and bad investments? Richard also discusses how his father inspired him into investing, although he may have been a bit too early in a now very hot investment area…

Inflation is a hot topic and real assets in vogue so in this month's podcast, Adam and Paul chat with Simon Lee of LXI REIT. They explore how the team try to protect against inflation through long dated index-linked property. Up for discussion include the likes of drive thru coffee and food retail outlets plus Life Science campuses and garden centres. If you're worried about the impact of inflation on your or your client's investment this episode's well worth a listen.

We explore income investing and innovation – two connected themes you may not ordinarily associate with Chinese equities. But Liontrust Asset Management’s pairing of Storm Uru and James Dowey do - they explain why they expect China to be remain a hotbed of innovation and the exciting opportunities this dynamic will create. We also chat the Beijing Olympics with behind-the-scenes insight from Storm.