Founder, Market Thinker

Mark Tinker

Mark Tinker has over 35 years experience as an investor, market strategist and economist. Having spent more than 20 years as a sell side strategist and being top rated on numerous occasions and surveys he moved to investment management in 2006 to run global equity portfolios in London and subsequently moved to Hong Kong in 2013 to help establish an Investment Management business for a top 20 international asset manager. He first started writing investment weeklies for his employers in 1989, developing a style characterised under the title Market Thinking and has been a regular commentator and presenter on CNBC, Bloomberg and other business channels, where his approach of rationalising market behaviour rather than making short term predictions on high frequency market data provides a welcome balance to his client audience.

Founder

Portfolios Built Based on Innovation Score by Datamining Technical Publications

How the Portfolios Did for the First Week

Market Thinker

Making Sense of the Narrative

Macroeconomics

<ul><li>In the last three posts on Model Portfolios, we have looked at Global Bonds, Global Equity Factors and Global Equity Themes.</li><li>In each case we have made the case for applying the principles of Market Thinking in terms of our Confidence Scores combined with disciplined and dynamic allocation (between bonds, Factors and Themes respectively) to achieve a better risk return profile than the benchmark indices.</li><li>In particular the ability to allocate higher amounts to cash (in reality ultra short dated bonds) has enabled us to manage the downside risk and considerably reduce volatility.</li></ul>

In the last three posts on Model Portfolios, we have looked at Global Bonds, Global Equity Factors and Global Equity Themes.In each case we have made the case for applying the principles of Market Thinking in terms of our Confidence Scores combined with disciplined and dynamic allocation (between bonds, Factors and Themes respectively) to achieve a better risk return profile than the benchmark indices.In particular the ability to allocate higher amounts to cash (in reality ultra short dated bonds) has enabled us to manage the downside risk and considerably reduce volatility.

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