Volume 39, Number 03
Business
Market Directions Seminar 2008
Financial headlines screaming doom and gloom; commentators as well as central bankers blaming the market woes on the US subprime debacle, rising gold and oil prices, the increasing cost of corn among others—where can you get a honest opinion as to how best manage your money? The upcoming Magellan Market Directions Seminar 2008 on Weds.
March 12 will give you an opportunity to get, from the horse’s mouth, opinions on why 2007 was an annus horribilis and how 2008 is likely to shape up.
Magellan Financial Planning are holding their third seminar, featuring a range of experts from different parts of the world and finance industry, to help you gauge market conditions and investment opportunities that will undoubtedly arise in the challenging year ahead.
This year there will be fund managers from Australia, the UK and the up and coming Middle East. Each panel member will speak for 15 minutes outlining their views of the 2007 market conditions and pointing the way forward in 2008 as to how they see markets, currencies and of course their own area of expertise unfolding.
Graham Davis of the Economist Intelligence Network will moderate the seminar; he will present his own economic views as well as challenging the panel members on the content of their presentations and assumptions followed by a lively question and answer session led by Graham and of course the audience. This usually is the most entertaining session as each expert is put on their metal to explain and predict where they see markets at the year-end.
In previous year’s the seminar has addressed Commodities, India and of course Japan as investment areas worthy of consideration. Clearly the first two proved to be areas that have grown and are likely to continue to grow for the foreseeable future. Japan on the other hand has under-performed over the last two years and the Nikkei is heading inexorably south once again.
This year FMG’s Jeff Chen will speak on the relatively new area known as MENA (Middle East North Africa). Known as one of the last investable frontiers, it is a region virtually untouched by Western investors, flushed with liquidity, it controls the majority of the world’s future energy needs yet only accounts for two percent of the world’s market capitalisation and should be part of any investor’s portfolio.
For those seeking more conservative cash-based investment, Eghard van der Hoven from Australia’s LM Investment Management will set out the case for Mortgage Trusts and their ability to be a safe haven for cash deposits using innovative cash management techniques.
Finally, Adrian Perry from Brandeaux Funds will demonstrate that the problem that other sectors of the UK property market are experiencing is not affecting the Brandeaux portfolios. The strength lies in the noncorrelation of its ground rent, reversionary and student housing portfolios to the current troubled commercial property markets. These portfolios continue to perform strongly and the outlook remains strongly positive as they have for the past 12 years since inception in 1996.
To reserve your place for this popular event please send an e-mail to mtt@magellantt.com with ‘Seminar’ in the subject line.
Provided by MAGELLAN JAPAN:
THE FINANCIAL PLANNING COMPANY
Email mtt@magellantt.com
Tel. 03-3769-5511