Portfolio positions and politics

As India heads into multiple state elections, studying Marko Papic’s geopolitical framework can be useful for investors

- ANAND TANDON

Marko Papic is partner and chief strategist at Clocktower Group (an alternative investment group) in California. Growing up in Yugoslavia, a country that no longer exists, he developed an early interest in geopolitics, an interest he honed while working for Stratfor – a company dedicated to making geopolitical risk assessments. This was followed by a career at BCA Research – another pathbreaking research outfit where he started the desk for geopolitical inputs in portfolio strategy. All this expertise in geopolitics has been documented in a book titled ‘Geopolitical Alpha: An Investment Framework for Predicting the Future’. As India heads into multiple important state elections, domestic politics will again reflect on short-term market gyrations. A look at the framework can be useful for investors in this context.

Geopolitical analysis is no longer ‘nice to have’ – it’s essential