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Your Pass includes videos, audio, transcripts, and (as available) presenters' slides—watch, listen, and read at your leisure, on all your devices.
See below for the latest highlights from the top SIC 2022 sessions.
“I also think that more and more assets are going to be diverted away from the US and from dollars. In fact, people are afraid of what the US might do to those assets, might confiscate them and so forth. So I suspect you'll see more of an effort to have people find a basket of currencies that are equivalent to a reserve currency. And I don’t think the dollar will, three or four years from now, be anywhere near as valuable as it is today.”
“So when there’s uncertainty that seems more pronounced than normal, and stock prices might be a little extended in the short term, stocks go down. [...] Elon Musk says, invest in really good companies that you think can grow a lot, and you have a diversified portfolio. So all we do is try to invest in companies that we think we can own for a long time, and whenever they make these announcements, they’re going to grow faster, and the stock prices go down, we buy more. That’s how we’ve outperformed. Because other people are afraid, and we bought more.”
“The real issue that we have to deal with is our own behavior in the face of an endless stream of distractions. The stock market itself is a noise-manufacturing machine, and it plays right into all of our cognitive deficits. We tend to think we're better stock pickers than we are. We tend to think we're better market timers than we are. All of us have a tendency to be macro tourists. We believe that we can look at this specific data point and that specific economic release, and rejigger our portfolios around it. And time and time again, the data shows us that the more we do, the worse our long-term performance is.”
“And in a year like this year, where we're now up 1.93%, 1,400 basis points better than the S&P, we have to say over and over again, 'Clients, we don't care. We're not happy about it.' We're not unhappy [either]. We don't play stupid, but we explain our investment objective is for them. It's not for bragging rights at a cocktail party. Dividend growth enables us to keep our eye on the ball of the one thing we can control.”
“If you are only planning for the risks that are foreseeable, you are only saving for the risks that are foreseeable. By definition, 10 times out of 10, you are going to miss the risk that is a surprise. And therefore, the appropriate amount of savings and cushion that you have in your portfolio and your personal finances should always feel like it’s a little bit too much.”
“So these are not, again, fly-by-night companies. This is not some Ponzi scheme. Some people talk about crypto as Ponzi. This is a whole world that's growing up right next to the old system.”
Sharp expert analysis and priceless wisdom based on decades of experience... that’s what the 63 speakers at the SIC 2022 (scroll down to see the full lineup) brought to the table.
Great minds like former Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger... co-founder of The Carlyle Group and talk show host David Rubenstein... top political strategist and pollster Dr. Frank Luntz... investing legend Ron Baron... and dozens more...
...gave their takes on burning issues like inflation, supply shortages, the Russia-Ukraine war, Fed policy, the coming recession, where to put your money, and what not to touch.
Investing is a tough job—especially when emotions run high, as we’re seeing right now in the face of multiple simultaneous crises.
When panic rises close to the surface, there’s nothing you need more than a measured voice telling you to calm down and see things clearly.
A voice like Howard Marks’:
[To] me, the concept of the pendulum is extremely important. Human thinking does not stay centered at what my mother used to call “the happy medium.” It usually swings from too much in one direction to too much in the other: from greed to fear, from optimistic to pessimistic, from risk averse to risk tolerant...
[In] the real world, things fluctuate between “pretty good” and “not so hot,” but in the markets, they tend to go from “flawless” to “hopeless.” The swings are overdone, whenever human thinking and psychology are involved.
At the Strategic Investment Conference, you’ll have the chance to peek behind the curtain and hear insights you likely won’t find anywhere else.
You can’t afford to miss it.
Henry Alfred Kissinger was sworn in on September 22, 1973, as the 56th Secretary of State, a position he held until January 20, 1977. He also served as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from January 20, 1969, until November 3, 1975. In July 1983, he was appointed by President Reagan to chair the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America until it ceased operation in January 1985, and from 1984–1990, he served as a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Read full bio.
Joe Lonsdale is the managing partner at 8VC, a US-based venture capital firm that manages several billion dollars in committed capital. He was an early institutional investor in many notable companies, including Wish, Oculus, Guardant Health, Oscar Health Insurance, Illumio, Anduril, JoyTunes, Blend, Flexport, Joby Aviation, Orca Bio, Qualia, Synthego, RelateIQ, and many others. Read full bio.
Since the formation of Oaktree in 1995, Howard Marks has been responsible for ensuring the firm’s adherence to its core investment philosophy, communicating closely with clients concerning products and strategies, and contributing his experience to big-picture decisions relating to investments and corporate direction. Read full bio.
Cathie registered ARK Investment Management LLC (“ARK”) as an investment adviser with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in January 2014. With over 40 years of experience identifying and investing in innovation, Cathie founded ARK to focus solely on disruptive innovation while adding new dimensions to research. Read full bio.
Ron founded Baron Capital in 1982 and has 51 years of research experience. From 1970 to 1982, Ron worked for several brokerage firms as an institutional securities analyst. From 1966 to 1969, Ron worked at the US Patent Office as a patent examiner while attending George Washington University Law School. Read full bio.
David M. Rubenstein is co-founder and co-chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms. Mr. Rubenstein co-founded the firm in 1987. Since then, Carlyle has grown into a firm managing $301 billion from 26 offices around the world. Read full bio.
Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund, an investment firm focused on supporting and investing in the shared future. The firm’s funds center around two macro themes: the growth of the creative class and the concept of the collaborative economy. Read full bio.
Frank Luntz is one of the most honored communication professionals in America today: “The Nostradamus of pollsters,” said Sir David Frost, while Time magazine named him one of “50 of America’s most promising leaders aged 40 and under,” and Newsweek magazine identified him as No. 24 on their American Power Elite survey. Read full bio.
Dr. George Friedman is founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, a company dedicated to forecasting the course of the international system (www.geopoliticalfutures.com). He is an internationally recognized strategist on global affairs who has been called “the creator of the field of geopolitical forecasting.”
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Enjoy five action-packed conference days: Watch 63 top speakers in 42 lively discussions and thought-provoking solo presentations
Get all the guidance you need to make informed decisions: Outlooks for the next 12 months... How to cope with out-of-control volatility... Defense and offense: how to survive and profit in this environment... Undervalued best-of-class investments for you to buy now
An extra Plus-Day for hands-on investing: Mauldin Economics and guest analysts line up to provide you with their best, actionable trade ideas
28 hours of valuable content in video and audio format, to watch and listen to at your leisure—on all your devices
Full transcripts of each presentation, panel, and fireside chat
Presenter slides (as available)
Simply outstanding. Almost every session was worth the price by itself.
Here’s a quick preview of what you will get:
Meet three pros who each manage billions of dollars for investors. What are they currently doing for their clients? How do they prepare for the unexpected?
Winners and losers in the crypto space—what to put on your watch list, what to stay away from. Are digital currencies the “hard assets” of the future, and how do they compare to gold? What about recent crypto scams?
Oil, natural gas, and fertilizer from Russia are in short supply—what should we expect to happen in the near future, who will bridge the gaps, what will the global fallout for consumers be, and how do we prepare?
What are the geopolitical implications of China’s latest actions? How would a Chinese takeover of Taiwan impact Western economies?
Fossil fuels vs. renewables: What is the future of oil, natural gas, nuclear, solar, and wind? How cost- and energy-efficient are electric vehicles and electric heat? ESG investing is taking off, but is forced compliance a feasible way to future success? How will this trend play out in the next few years?
John Mauldin’s ultimate wrap of the SIC 2022. John and four seasoned faculty members gather one last time to sum up five information-packed days of musings and analysis. This is the place where facts are pondered, opinions are weighed, and disputes are settled. This panel ties up the conference’s lessons for attendees.
This conference far exceeded my expectations. Though I was obviously more interested in some topics than others, I gained a tremendous amount of knowledge, insight, and actionable information. The presenters were dynamic and engaging, and the slides represented a massive amount of research and analysis. I also appreciated the format, with so much downloadable content, and the opportunity to replay the presentations for greater understanding. It’s not good form to gush on, but I thought the conference was terrific, well worth the price of admission. Thank you!
Terrific lectures, presentations, very relevant, very interesting, just the right length.
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