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

Market Thinker

Making Sense of the Narrative

Macroeconomics

<ul><li>In our multi theme portfolios (both managed accounts and in the UCITS strategy we run with Toscafund*) one of the longest and most stable positions has been in the I- Shares Robotics and Automation fund (RBOT) since we see this as an enduring long term thematic.</li><li>However, we have just switched it to a different ETF, the L&amp;G fund, ROBO and the reason for writing this is that the reasons for doing it reflect some important conflicts within markets and within ETFs themselves.</li><li>When we invest thematically, we use baskets (currently in the form of ETFs) in order to diversify our stock specific risk.</li></ul>

In our multi theme portfolios (both managed accounts and in the UCITS strategy we run with Toscafund*) one of the longest and most stable positions has been in the I- Shares Robotics and Automation fund (RBOT) since we see this as an enduring long term thematic.However, we have just switched it to a different ETF, the L&amp;G fund, ROBO and the reason for writing this is that the reasons for doing it reflect some important conflicts within markets and within ETFs themselves.When we invest thematically, we use baskets (currently in the form of ETFs) in order to diversify our stock specific risk.

Why I just switched from RBOT to ROBO