Forthlane Fridays

Investment and Finance

Session 45: Investment Themes and Outlook for 2023

We were joined by Erik Knutzen, Chief Investment Officer of Multi-Asset Class and Co-Head of the Quantitative and Multi-Asset investment team at Neuberger Berman (read full guest bio here). Erik joined Forthlane’s CIO, Wayne Kozun, to discuss how inflation and interest rates continue to impact the markets,

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Session 41: Inflation, Interest Rates & Instability

We were joined by Daniel Dreyfus, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Bornite Capital (read full guest bio here). This conversation focused on the impact inflation and interest rates has on investment portfolios, portfolio construction considerations, and outlooks for the year.

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SESSION 37: THE NEW SPACE ECONOMY – OPPORTUNITIES FOR INVESTMENT

We were joined by Andrea Yip, the Founder & CEO of Luna Design and Innovation, Jim Cantrell, Co-Founder & CEO of Phantom Space, and Anton Brevde, Partner at Prime Movers Lab (read full bios). This discussion covered the space landscape, considerations for investing, innovations and trends, and environmental implications of space.

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SESSION 36: THE EVOLUTION OF CRYPTOCURRENCY AND ITS OPPORTUNITIES

We were joined by Brian Mosoff, the CEO of Ether Capital (read full bios). This discussion covered the cryptocurrency landscape, the value behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, the regulation space, and cryptocurrency from an allocation perspective.

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SESSION 30: INNOVATION IN GROWTH INVESTING

We were joined by Ray Sharma, the Founder and CEO of Extreme Venture Partners (read full bios). This discussion covered trends in innovation investing, an analysis of recent IPOs, and the Canadian landscape.

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SESSION 29: MONETIZING YOUR COLLECTION: THE EVOLUTION OF INVESTING IN ART

We were joined by Adam Chinn, former COO, Sotheby’s, and Nigel Glenday, CFO, Masterworks (read full bios). This session discussed categorizations in the art market, access to data, monetizing personal collections, and why investors should pay attention to it.

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SESSION 28: PENSION PLAN INNOVATORS

We were joined by Robert Bertram, former EVP, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and Leo de Bever, former CEO, Alberta Investment Management Corporation (read full bios). This session covered the governance of the Canadian pension plan, investment strategies, and innovations in the space.

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SESSION 20: ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES

Our guests, Maggie Xu, the co-founder of Axis DeFi, and Hussein Allidina, the former head of commodities, capital markets, at Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (read full guest bios here). This session covered many topics, with a focus on commodities and digital currencies in today’s environment. Our guests explained what cryptocurrency and bitcoin is, how it is similar to gold, and what people should think about when investing into these alternative currencies.

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SESSION 18: GLOBAL REAL ESTATE INVESTING: TRENDS, RISKS & OPPORTUNITIES

We were joined by Phil Runions and Wenzel Hoberg from Barnhart Asset Management, and Brice Sheschuk from Globalive Capital (read full bios) to dive into the global real estate landscape, covering trends, opportunities and digital infrastructure.

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SESSION 13: VALUES-BASED REAL ESTATE INVESTING

This week we were joined by Carlton Brown and Gizman Abbas, both Co-Founding Principals at Direct Invest Development, working with the mission of creating restorative human settlements through values-based real estate investing. We were also joined by Wes Hall, the Founder of Kingsdale Advisors and the BlackNorth Initiative (read full bios). The BlackNorth Initiative is committed to the removal of anti-Black systemic barriers that negatively impact Black Canadians. The Initiative is focused on increasing representation of Black Canadians in boardrooms, and asking corporate leaders to commit to policies and targets to end systemic racism.

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