Geopolitical Alpha

Marko Papic

出版社

Wiley

出版时间

2020-10-15

ISBN

9781119740216

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍
这本书最锋利的观点,藏在一条几乎像格言的断言里:政策偏好是可选的,约束不可选。作者Marko Papic主张,预测未来、获取超额收益的关键,不是去听决策者说了什么、迷信
作者简介
Marko Papic Partner & Chief Strategist Clocktower Group Marko is a Partner and Chief Strategist at Clocktower Group, an alternative investment asset management firm based in Santa Monica, California. He leads the firm's Strategy Team, providing bespoke research to clients and partners on geopolitics, macroeconomics, and markets. Prior to joining the firm, Marko founded BCA Research's Geopolitical Strategy practice (GPS) in 2012, the financial industry's first dedicated political analysis investment strategy. The GPS service generated geopolitical alpha by identifying gaps between the market's political expectations and the firm's forecasts. Marko was a Senior Vice President and the firm's Chief Geopolitical Strategist. Marko began his career as a Senior Analyst at Stratfor, a global intelligence agency where he contributed to the firm's global geopolitical strategy as well as its analyst recruitment and training program. In his academic work, he helped create the Center for European Union Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Marko holds an MA in Political Science from the University of Texas at Austin and an MA from the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Geopolitical Alpha: An Investment Framework for Predicting the Future (Wiley 2020), a book that introduces his constraints-based framework to investors. He has lived in seven countries on three continents. www.geopoliticalalpha.com www.clocktowergroup.com
AI导读
核心看点
  • 提出约束优先于偏好的地缘政治分析框架
  • 摒弃媒体叙事,聚焦政策制定者的物质硬约束
  • 将地缘政治风险转化为可操作的投资Alpha
读者共识
  • 约束决定偏好,是理解政治决策的核心逻辑
  • 框架实用性强,有助于祛魅宏大叙事与内幕
  • 部分案例预测存在争议,需辩证看待其局限性
精彩摘录
  • "At the same time, I was expressly hired to be the firm's Europe analyst. Given Stratfor's roots in "Great Power geopolitics," my position was the equivalent of being the admiral of the Swiss Navy. Most of the all-hands meetings were about Tomahawks, car bombs, and jihad. I usually got to fight with "
  • "In the battle of ideas, the Thatcher/Reagan supply-side - laissez-faire - won as decisive a victory over Mitterrand's demand-side - dirigisme - as one could imagine. Voters and policymakers across the developed world took note and adjusted behavior accordingly."
  • "I vehemently disagree. The pandemic has simply accelerated the paradigm shifts that began in the 2010s: geopolitical multipolarity, deglobalization, and the end of the Anglo-Saxon laissez-faire consensus."
  • "The COVID-19 crisis may have accelerated the inevitable, but America's turn from a laissez-faire economy into a dirigiste one had begun much earlier. For investors and businesses, geopolitical analysis became more important than ever."
  • "The second limitation of the intelligence model is that today’s geopolitical and political risks are no longer only investment-relevant to frontier and emerging markets (EMs). An intelligence-led model of political analysis might work in a simple political system, where access to the key decision-ma"
用户评论
地缘政治与宏观经济趋势。“From the above decade trends, I concluded that treating politics and geopolitics as an externality to markets made no sense.” 嘲讽开启,笑死。第二章长篇分析中国时有点准。后面关于 a Multipolar World 的论断也有意思,反我刻板逻辑。总之,因为别人推荐所以囫囵吞枣扫了一遍自己能看懂的部分,还是觉得力所未能及。“Falsehood flies, but truth comes limping after.”
"Preferences are optional and subject to constraints, whereas constraints are neither optional nor subject to preferences" 用词比较难读,各种吹自己过去反market consensus & had made the right call……
喜欢这种塔勒布类型文风的投资者的书,躬身入局的投资人说话就是比拿着水晶杯的分析师们更真实和勇敢,没有既要又要的追求全面,而是现实性务实的表达了自己对地缘政治的个人认识和理解维度的出发点——约束决定政策偏好,后面的解释和预测也都与初始设定相互自洽,很有启发的一本书
"Preferences are optional and subject to constraints, whereas constraints are neither optional nor subject to preferences." "Life is full of sacrifices, a product of constraints." Preference is about exploring inside, while constraints is about looking at the outside. I have to do both.
没有什么新意。
方法论里没有新东西,分析的关键在于找出最关键的影响因素,即书中的fulcrum constraint。案例写得清晰有趣,但做出类似分析,找出有意义的constraint需要反复练习(也不一定能像作者这样成功),本来想打四🌟,但是对疫情后政策的预判都对了就再加一颗吧。
内容于我而言够impressive,之后会多读同类。读英语总归有点迷糊,等这段忙完了整理个清楚的笔记。(但估计忙完就暑假了😑
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