To kick off the new year, our 2022 inaugural episode welcomed back Jeff Weniger, Head of Equity Strategy at WisdomTree Asset Management. Sharp-witted and pulling no punches, Jeff and the team covered topics that included:

• The early year equity rotation as the inflation narrative gathers steam
• The third leg of the portfolio stool that most investors are likely missing
• Owning commodities vs commodity-linked equities
• Most investors today have barely had any experience with inflation in markets – remembering the commodity super-cycle of the early 2000s
• Not all inflation is created equally – how it arises determines what asset-classes and instruments can be used most effectively
• The types of risk gold responds to, and why it hasn’t performed as many expected
• Owner’s Equivalent Rent and its delayed effect in the Consumer Price Index
• Maybe the cure for high commodity prices… is high commodity prices
• The “stealth crash” in the Nasdaq and aggressive equity sector rotation
• Market-cap weighted equity investors can miss out on huge gains in underrepresented sectors over prolonged periods
• The possible upcoming perils for Big Tech
• An ESG Conundrum – the anti-social externality caused by social media platforms
• Disclosure and the new paradigm of ESG – how sticky can this be?
• The era of crisis, necessity and change on both micro and macro levels
• The toughest decade ever for diversified portfolios
• The reawakening of the value factor

 

Thank you for watching and listening. See you next week.

 

This is “ReSolve’s Riffs” – live on YouTube every Friday afternoon to debate the most relevant investment topics of the day, hosted by Adam Butler, Mike Philbrick and Rodrigo Gordillo of ReSolve Global* and Richard Laterman of ReSolve Asset Management.

 

*ReSolve Global refers to ReSolve Asset Management SEZC (Cayman) which is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a commodity trading advisor and commodity pool operator. This registration is administered through the National Futures Association (“NFA”). Further, ReSolve Global is a registered person with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.