A pre-COVID trip to India offered life lessons useful in deciphering which companies and sectors will survive and thrive after the crisis.
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If it’s in the data it’s too late, says Tassos Stassopoulos, who studies consumers’ cultures, values and habits directly to find his next investment.

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Globe-trotting fund manager Tassos Stassopoulos has a word of advice for stressed out investors watching the stock market implode: Step back.

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Through the muck and the mire of 2019 one thing has remained constant; participants and purveyors in and around the financial planning industry have their own – often strong – opinions.....

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Robo-advice tools are becoming better at providing information to clients, so advisers will need to shift their focus towards values and understanding if they are to retain their relevance....

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Assessing risk in stocks works much better with a methodology that uses a temporal perspective - imagine you have already failed, and ask yourself why.

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To many investors the term “emerging market economies” has connotations of high risks and volatility, but to Tassos Stassopolous they’re the source of valuable “deep ethnographic research”.                                                            [Read more here]

A presentation given by Tassos at the Forum's Strategies Conference in Sydney.

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Tassos Stassopoulos says there was a defining moment in time – 7.30pm on February 14, 2009 – when he discovered that the investment approach he’d been using his entire life was flawed.

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Out of the office: Investor visits slums to track new world

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On January 13, 2018, the UK's big banks will be forced to show startups their most precious data. But is Open Banking too revolutionary for its own good?

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Domestic consumption in emerging markets is estimated to grow from about US$12 trillion per year to US$53 trillion in 2035, making it one of the biggest investment opportunities....

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At least part of the bump in Chinese consumer spending stems from discouraged workers returning to their smaller hometowns.

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While a handful of US banks are opening their software and data to outside applications, something much bolder is happening in Europe: governments are championing the practice....

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Connecting the dots between disparate trends can help unearth surprising opportunities in emerging markets. In our view, the impact of infrastructure investment on healthcare is a little-known link with big implications.                      [Read more here]

Investors who try to tap into emerging-market growth by building up stock portfolios that mirror benchmark indexes .... risk picking up old stories and missing out on future trends.

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Tassos Stassopoulos, belegger in opkomende landen, stak zijn neus in 300 koelkasten, in 13 landen.

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Over many years, China has gained acclaim as the world’s manufacturing powerhouse. But today, innovation is flourishing in the world’s most populous nation, which is rapidly becoming a trendsetter with the potential to disrupt....  [Read more here]

What's on your fridge shelf says more than you might think about you as a consumer.

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What’s the connection between electricity and women? Electricity is an agent of empowerment, able to transform societies and economies in emerging markets.

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A discussion with Linda Yueh on refrigeration in the developing world, and "fridgeonomics."

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Rapidly ageing societies in developing countries represent important markets for consumer companies.

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Video Presentation:

What emerging market consumers will really buy?

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The kitchen fridge, itself a marker of economic development, has the key ingredients to predict emerging-markets consumer trends.

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Sheela Naik, who earns $80 a month as a housemaid on the outskirts of Goa, had to shop daily at market stalls and try to cook just the right amount for her household of ten each night.

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There are 1bn working class consumers who ..... are of increasing importance to emerging markets growth.

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Tassos Stassopoulos looks like any other emerging markets fund manager.....

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Consumer dynamics in emerging markets are often misunderstood.......... the working classes will be the real engines of consumer growth....

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Traditional methods of filtering out consumer plays from emerging-market indices will concentrate undue attention on companies with entrenched market positions.....

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