Tassos Stassopoulos
Keynote: When investing, a youthful mindset is everything
What does the wizarding world of Harry Potter and Emerging Markets have in common? At Australia's Portfolio Construction Forum Strategies...
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Tassos Stassopoulos
- Jun 14
- 4 min
Why E gets the focus, S is misinterpreted, and G could do better
The developed world’s focus on more easily measurable environmental metrics is happening to the detriment of social impact. Investors are...
Tassos Stassopoulos
- Jun 7, 2021
- 1 min
Webinar: 50 Shades of ESG
A singular obsession with certain ESG metrics is taking us down a narrow and precarious path. It leads to a black and white box-ticking...
Tassos Stassopoulos
- May 24, 2021
- 4 min
Learning from COVID: how to navigate an uncertain world
Much suffering and millions of deaths have been brought about by COVID-19. The pandemic is playing out in in real time on our screens and...
Tassos Stassopoulos
- Apr 6, 2021
- 1 min
Keynote: Covid-19 is a blueprint for the Emotionomics 2.0 world
During Covid-19 the world fell into a synchronised anxiety for the first time, arguably, since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. But this...
Tassos Stassopoulos
- Nov 17, 2020
- 1 min
Podcast 10: Spotting trends in an anxious world
Covid-19 has fundamentally changed the world, our habits and behaviours. How do you distinguish between consumer trends which are set for...
Tassos Stassopoulos
- Jul 27, 2020
- 3 min
Digital ethnography: Understanding people not only in a COVID World
COVID-19 has thrown the world out of balance and created uncertainty and anxiety. The pandemic has impacted lifestyles, what and where we...
Tassos Stassopoulos
- Jul 20, 2020
- 3 min
Spreadsheets can’t predict behaviour
Far too many companies still operate from their own ‘financially-driven’ set of values. They still haven’t understood that trends are...
Tassos Stassopoulos
- Jun 23, 2020
- 2 min
Podcast 9: Are EMs about to benefit from a longevity dividend?
It is often assumed that growth in Emerging Markets stems from the expanding youth population. On-the-ground insights, however, point to...
Tassos Stassopoulos
- Jun 2, 2020
- 1 min
Keynote: Focus your sustainability efforts on clients not managers
Traditional finance theory suggests that the pursuit of profit is as universal as gravity. Yet the values of society change over...
Tassos Stassopoulos
- Apr 27, 2020
- 3 min
Consumers not companies dictate trends
Companies try to predict trends, and they can get it wrong. The simple reason is that companies often display tunnel vision. They see the...
Tassos Stassopoulos
- Feb 5, 2020
- 2 min
Podcast 7: Growing environmental awareness in EM and other trends to watch
Emerging Market are changing fast, but while some topics and challenges might be shared with the developed world, the solutions are often...
Tassos Stassopoulos
- Nov 29, 2019
- 1 min
Keynote: Incorporate black clouds of risk when capturing growth in EM
Emerging Markets are full of undiscovered opportunities and hope. Analysts can get stary-eyed in the face of exciting growth stories and...
Tassos Stassopoulos
- Nov 19, 2019
- 1 min
Keynote: Values need to move from peripheral vision to the focal point
When investing in Emerging Markets we need to make an effort to understand consumers’ values. People no longer only want to be rich; they...
Tassos Stassopoulos
- Oct 24, 2019
- 3 min
Lower socioeconomic groups fuelling Growth of Private Healthcare in EMs
Private healthcare is set to grow exponentially in many EMs as the lower socioeconomic classes prefer to pay for access to doctors rather...
Tassos Stassopoulos
- Sep 11, 2019
- 1 min
The Amazon - a burning issue
Like many, we were saddened and concerned at the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest. The accelerated destruction of what is one of the...
Tassos Stassopoulos
- Feb 10, 2019
- 1 min
Podcast: Women Effect in Emerging Markets
Women’s empowerment is one of the biggest themes across emerging markets today. Its impact will change people’s lives, and will affect...
Tassos Stassopoulos
- Nov 5, 2018
- 4 min
Fintech: Turbocharging the silent revolution of female homepreneurs in Emerging Markets
Rural electrification is already having a major impact on society and female empowerment in emerging markets. We believe that in some...
Tassos Stassopoulos
- Sep 14, 2018
- 1 min
Keynote Speech: Why we get it wrong - culture not companies dictate trends
There were some very forward-thinking discussions at the Portfolio Construction Forum Strategies Conference on 22-23 February 2018 in...
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- Jan 25, 2018
- 4 min
Cricket to Save India from Smog?
With air pollution reaching unsustainable levels, in India the catalyst for change is hidden in clear sight and the change will have a...
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