Never mind beating the benchmark when the benchmark is quietly making the real decisions. Gerald Ashley and George Cooper pull back the curtain on how index choice shifts risk onto investors, fuels herding, and even distorts the wider economy. From the S&P 500’s ninefold climb to the FTSE’s more modest tripling, they unpack why “go passive” still demands a critical, high stakes decision about which index to follow and which currencies to carry. The conversation digs into the perverse logi...
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Never mind beating the benchmark when the benchmark is quietly making the real decisions. Gerald Ashley and George Cooper pull back the curtain on how index choice shifts risk onto investors, fuels herding, and even distorts the wider economy. From the S&P 500’s ninefold climb to the FTSE’s more modest tripling, they unpack why “go passive” still demands a critical, high stakes decision about which index to follow and which currencies to carry. The conversation digs into the perverse logi...
In this episode Gerald Ashley is joined by Nicholas Rogers, an equity analyst at Equitile. They take a look at the three major energy markets of oil, natural gas and coal, which together supply up to 90% of global energy. They discuss the current stability of oil prices despite Middle East tensions, with softening Western demand but strong Asian growth, and the importance particularly of China’s strategic oil reserves via the “Beijing put.” And is Offshore oil’s cost-effectiveness chall...
Equitile Conversations
Never mind beating the benchmark when the benchmark is quietly making the real decisions. Gerald Ashley and George Cooper pull back the curtain on how index choice shifts risk onto investors, fuels herding, and even distorts the wider economy. From the S&P 500’s ninefold climb to the FTSE’s more modest tripling, they unpack why “go passive” still demands a critical, high stakes decision about which index to follow and which currencies to carry. The conversation digs into the perverse logi...
