What’s moving the world?

A candid personality, avid reader & writer, Shiv had served as ex ED Goldman Sachs and is currently providing leadership to the Capital Market businesses at Edelweiss Financial Services Limited. He has rich experience of working in long-short emerging market Hedge Funds.

What will you learn in this webinar?

Amidst the Pandemic, every investor is worried about the significant percentage drop witnessed in the investment portfolio, and this has raised some important questions among investor's community:

• Where we are headed to?
• When will markets recover?
• What's going to change the world now?

Key learnings from this webinar

Over the last 6 months, many of the rules that have governed our world have changed as we have had to face a pandemic unparalleled in its impact on our lives. It has had an unprecedented impact on economic activity and consequently, on our investment portfolios. Today, we are going to understand what is happening in the world and how we can position our portfolios to deal with the crisis?

• The bulk of the deleveraging in the equity markets happened in March-April 2020 – now we are trying to get back on our feet
• The policy response from the Central Banks around the globe has been unparalleled and has served its purpose – it has ensured that a liquidity crisis did not become an insolvency crisis
• Irrespective of what market stage or investment environment you are in, it is important to take decisions basis your strategic asset allocation strategy
• Timing the market is near impossible – what you can manage is your asset allocation
• Markets have already accepted and to a certain degree priced in the weak economic scenario – from an asset allocation strategy perspective, it is important to take a long-term view and form an opinion of what is going to happen 2021 onwards
• Investors can consider dipping their toes in the markets in a staggered manner over the next couple of months, in accordance with their asset allocation strategy – look at what is going to happen in the next 18 to 24 months and not what will happen in the next few months