EFPA Luxembourg organizes the event :
" Navigating autocracy risk: strategies for building a resilient portfolio", with Philippe Bolopion, Managing Director at TOBAM and LBRTY® Strategy Lead
Are investors unwittingly exposed to autocracy risk in their portfolio?
Geopolitical tensions fostered by autocracies have increasingly impacted financial markets in recent years.The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a case in point, with more than 1,000 companies listed outside of Russia forced to close their operations in Russia, resulting in losses exceeding US$250 billion.
Geopolitical risks, which have often been neglected in investment decisions in the past, should now be central in portfolio construction: ignoring them can prove very costly. That’s why TOBAM developed an original way to efficiently identify and manage it.
TOBAM’s approach is grounded in academic data showing that democracies offer better long-term economic prospects, while autocracies expose investors to unrewarded risk. The methodology addresses both direct (e.g., Turkish stocks) and indirect exposure (e.g., non-Turkish stocks with significant ties to Turkey), to truly reduce autocracy risk in a portfolio.
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