James Thomson
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2,279 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Jun
James Thomson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They can't help to just try and get in on the conversation.
Whatever people are talking about, they want to get in on it just to get close to those clients.
And they've got all sorts of reports and competitions out there, like the sustainability manager ranking the participation of countries by sustainability and
I mean, UBS got into the economics of sport, the technology, the club ownership, the hotels, travel.
I mean, there was an ETF provider, Savannah, using its ETF models to pick a winner.
Goldman Sachs in the US pretending it was a quantitative hedge fund to try and pick the winner.
I mean, there's a lot of that going around.
I mean, my favorite's James.
And this was from one of the firms you follow, BCA Research, macro research house in the US.
Mate, they approached it with all the earnestness of their financial markets research.
They had a beautiful backstory about this boss in there, Mark Papich, who's now the chief investment strategist, how he started doing these things back in 2017 ahead of the 2018 World Cup.
And he used to have to
get the analysts to come in on weekends and everyone was in it together.
And they worked on it for six months in secret away from the big bosses because they thought it was going to be a waste of time.
And now it's one of their most important pieces of research.
So they basically apply all the financial market metrics you'd expect to try and come up with a winner here.
I mean, they go through it on a group by group basis.
I went straight to group D as you have to.
I mean, that's Australia's group.
Yes.
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