Join Jock Glover, Strategic Relationships Director at Square Mile Investment Consulting and Research, as he talks with David Lewis, Lead Investment Manager, and George Fox, Investment Manager, from the Jupiter Merlin team. The Jupiter Merlin team runs just over £5 billion in their fund-of-funds strategies.

During their discussion, David and George discuss the current themes they're focusing on within the portfolios, the case for investing in gold and how they mitigate against big market dislocations. Also, don't miss the assets they wouldn't touch with a barge pole... 

Don't have time to listen to the full episode, jump to your favourite part:

• 1:20: How do you work together as a team?
• 3:40: When it comes to decision-making, how collaborative is the process?
• 5:36: Where do your ideas come from?
• 7:23: What themes currently run through your portfolios?
• 10:39: How are Japanese companies using cash on their balance sheets to result in an uplift in value?
• 11:58: Do you have any passive exposure in the portfolios, or is everything actively managed?
• 12:45: What would you avoid right now? What keeps you up at night?
• 15:49: Is the gold exposure a hedge against market drawdowns, or does it serve another purpose in the portfolio?
• 17:30: Why don’t you hold more alternative assets like Bitcoin or infrastructure?
• 18:49: Looking ahead, where do you think the best future opportunities might lie?
• 22:08: Do you have an interesting statistic from the last couple of weeks?

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