James Aitken
13 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 7 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 25, 2018 by James Aitken · said 21 times in 12 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 20 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- Sustainable Investing 10: Hiro Mizuno – Changing the Game (Capital Allocators, EP.148)
- Sustainable Investing 9: Reuben Munger – Private Capital Perspective (Capital Allocators, EP.147)
- Sustainable Investing 8: Lauren Taylor Wolfe – Activist Perspective (Capital Allocators, EP.146)
- Sustainable Investing 7: Tony Davis – Hedge Fund Perspective at Inherent Group (Capital Allocators, EP.145)
- Sustainable Investing 6: Richard Lawrence - ESG Integration at Overlook (Capital Allocators, EP.144)
- Sustainable Investing 5: David Blood - Pioneering a Generation (Capital Allocators, EP.143)
- Sustainable Investing 4: Emanuel Citron – Sourcing Sustainable Managers (Capital Allocators, EP.142)
- Sustainable Investing 3: Bob Litterman – Pricing Climate Risk (Capital Allocators, EP.141)
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
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Jun 25, 2018
Jun 25, 2018 bearish
Assuming Long-Term Rates Can Only Fall Is Global Markets' Biggest Risk
“I think the number one risk is the assumption that long-term interest rates can only go down. That's the number one risk. That underpins, I think, Nearly every major asset allocation around the world. The assumption that we are perpetually mired in some sort o…”
Jun 25, 2018 negative
Expert Status Breeds Dangerous Intellectual Complacency in Financial Systems
“It's dangerous when you're considered to be an expert on something, and I think it's still fair that people, to say that people know me as the plumbing guy, but it's dangerous if you come to be known as an expert because it means you might shut your mind off t…”
Mar 18, 2020 bearish
Aitken: Low Rates and Regulation Drove Unconstrained Shadow Banking Leverage
“The cool eye of financial history might conclude that by driving interest rates to ridiculously low levels, while simultaneously driving financial intermediation out of prudentially regulated banks, We or policymakers perhaps effectively uncapped leverage in t…”
Mar 10, 2022 neutral
Geopolitics has overtaken inflation as the primary market driver
“I'm starting to think that as important as that inflation conversation has been, I'm not sure that matters anymore, or at least not to the extent we thought it might three weeks ago, because this is now exclusively about geopolitics.”
Mar 10, 2022 bearish
Rate volatility provides a strong headwind for hyper-growth stocks and credit
“And obviously, most of all, that would probably continue to be a very strong headwind for what remain hideously overpriced long duration hyper growth stocks. I mean, obviously, but it's also a bit of a headwind for credit.”
Mar 10, 2022 bearish
Minimax regret over Ukraine is broadly impacting asset prices
“It seems a growing number of investors realize the seriousness of the situation we face today, and the desire of minimizing their maximum regret over getting this Ukraine situation wrong. And that is starting to impact asset prices far beyond energy and commod…”
Mar 10, 2022 bullish
Jul 10, 2023
Jul 10, 2023 bearish
Aitken: Systematic inflows into liquid stocks will unwind violently
“There's more and more money coming in as volatility comes down into the most liquid stocks. But then at some point, that's all going to turn around. We don't know when. But boy, oh boy, that's going to be a lively couple of days when that happens.”
Jul 10, 2023
Aitken: Fundamental investors account for only 5-10% of listed turnover
“And yet the facts are that if you and I, Ted, decide we're going to buy some listed asset today, well, we're going to be five to 10% of the turnover. Because the way the world works today is that the flow is dominated by the machines, and that's not a criticis…”
Apr 14, 2025 bearish
Aitken: Private market funds will face redemption pressures and stock declines
“During this transition, however long it is, we'd be more surprised if we didn't start to read more stories about private something being under pressure. More stories about people who didn't read the prospectus and tried to get the money out and they couldn't a…”
Apr 14, 2025