Craig Ferguson is the Director of Strategy at Antipodean Capital. He sat down with Owen Rask and Drew Meredith on The Australian Investors Podcast to talk macro and global markets.

Craig formerly worked with JP Morgan (1994-2003) as a currency and bond trader, and was head of their cross-market technical analysis group between 1999-2003 when his group was regularly ranked top three in the world.

Topics covered with Craig Ferguson: 

• Can you describe the current environment in a sentence?
• Explain what Antipodean Capital does? And why the name?
• What does a typical day look like for a macro forecaster?
• Biggest mistakes that even the smartest investors tend to make
• Define the concept of tactical vs strategic asset allocation? Is it becoming more important?
• Who needs this type of decision-making support?
• What are some of the best and worst calls of your career?
• What are Craig’s views on the market today? Bonds vs. equities, US dollar, the outlook for policy, inflation changes?
• Markets always tilt to hyperbole, how do you look through this?
• What’s the best tactical opportunity in fixed income and equities and alternatives today?

Podcast resources

• ASK A QUESTION
• Antipodean Capital
• Wattle Partners 
• Owen on Twitter
• Drew on Twitter

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