Portfolio positions and politics

Marko Papic is partner and chief strategist at Clocktower Group (an alternative-investment group) in California. Growing up in Yugoslavia, a country that no longer exists, he developed an early interest in geopolitics, an interest he honed while working for Stratfor - a company dedicated to making geopolitical risk assessments. This was followed by a career at BCA Research - another path-breaking research outfit where he started the desk for geopolitical inputs in portfolio strategy. All this expertise in geopolitics has been documented in a book titled 'Geopolitical Alpha: An Investment Framework for Predicting the Future'. As India heads into multiple important state elections, domestic politics will again reflect on short-term market gyrations. A look at the framework can be useful for investors in this context.

This article was originally published on February 08, 2022.