Speaker Services

Tom Coyne, who edits The Index Investor, can speak at your client seminars or larger conferences. His offerings focus on three areas:

How to Be a Better Forecaster

• The Nature of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)
• The Challenges of Forecasting CAS behavior
• Ambiguous Forecasts: Easy to Make, But Often Not Useful for End-Users
• Why Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Aren't Enough
• Best Forecasting Practices

• Defining Asset Classes: Broad or Narrow?
• Alternative Asset Allocation Models and Methods
• The Challenge of Estimating Model Inputs
• Arguments for Equal Asset Class Weighting
• Arguments for Departing from Equal Weighting
• Rebalancing: Systematic and Episodic Approaches

• Defining Active Investing
• Active Management Challenges
• Defining Passive Investing
• Passive Management Challenges (they exist!)
• Defining Index Investing
• Index Investing Challenges (factor zoo, liquidity, etc.)
• Making Tradeoffs Between These Three Approaches