Man GLG, in collaboration with mallowstreet, is pleased to be holding this
November Riverbank Dinner in 2012. Simon Savage, Portfolio Manager at GLG
Partners, will discuss the following:
Human beings have evolved as social
animals, built to herd and react – not to be rational and independent. Does this
DNA, built over thousands of years of evolution, manifest itself in our
investment behaviour and if so, to what extent can that be recognised,
controlled and improved? This talk will consider the behavioural aspects of
investment and will consider the things that portfolio managers, regardless of
their investment style or strategy, can do to improve their performance;
recognise winning and losing patterns and take corrective action.
• Is investing a skill or a talent? • Can you treat investing as a skill
and therefore continuously train and improve • How many portfolio managers
create and take feedback loops to improve their skill? • Does the environment
in which portfolio managers work affect their investment
behaviour? • Analysing human decision making in addition to and in
the context of, focus on understanding markets • Does the industry “worship”
talent and not learning?“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most
intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to
change” Charles Darwin.
This is a FREE
event for Pensions Secretaries, Pensions Managers, Trustees, Pensions
Chairs, Independent Trustees and Advisors. Please note that spaces are limited
and available on first come first serve basis. To avoid disappointment please
register for this event below.
Speakers
Simon Savage, Portfolio Manager at GLG Partners will give his perspective on
this topic.
Click on his photo to find out more about him:
Simon Savage
Simon graduated from Oxford University in 1990 with a BA in Physics and started his career in the quantitative aspects of equity trading and risk management by joining the equity derivatives team of Nomura.
In 1994, he moved to Bear Sterns to start their European portfolio trading business, moving to Morgan Stanley in 1997 to head up their risk program operation.
Simon joined GLG in 2004 and has focused on active risk management in the European Long-Short Fund.
