IMAP Podcast Series - Independent Thought

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IMAP Podcast Series - Independent Thought is a business podcast hosted by IMAP, with 51 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  IMAP Podcast Series - Independent Thought

  Episode 50: What does owning the S&P500 actually mean in 2026?

  Aug 18, 202616 min

  Our host Emily Barlow (Evidentia Private) is joined by Amit Pathak (S&P Dow Jones Indices) to discuss: S&P 500's cap-weighting naturally tilting toward AI leaders How the Top 10 holdings now make up ~40% of the index, up from 18% a decade ago Active investors still driving price discovery How companies are choosing to stay private longer, yet the S&P 500 still captures the largest, most liquid slice of the U.S. market. Index providers prioritising rules-based methodology over predicting winners

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  IMAP Podcast Series - Independent Thought

  Ep 49: Portfolio construction in the decade of uncertainty

  Aug 2, 202623 min

  Our host Emily Barlow (Evidentia Group) is joined by Ritesh Prasad (Colonial First State) to discuss: How the CFS multi-asset team builds portfolios, and why it's "multi-asset" rather than "multi-manager" What five years of market, policy and geopolitical change means for portfolio construction How a risk lens shapes day-to-day portfolio construction, and how active, quant and passive tools are chosen across asset classes Whether concentration in index-driven markets should push passive and quant into a bigger core role, or give investors pause

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  Episode 48: Disruption in Defensive Assets

  Jun 29, 202624 minS0

  <p>Our host <b>Emily Barlow of (Evidentia Group) </b>is joined by <b>Christian Baylis (Fortlake Asset Management)</b> to discuss: </p>How post-GFC regulations shifted risky lending from banks into private credit marketsPrivate credit ratings lacking transparency, raising investment grade classification concernsRedemption queues in semi-liquid private credit structures Covenant-light lending surging from ~10% to nearly 90% of leveraged financeAustralia's inflation rates

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  Episode #48

  Episode 48: Disruption in Defensive Assets

  Jun 29, 202624 min

  Our host Emily Barlow of (Evidentia Group) is joined by Christian Baylis (Fortlake Asset Management) to discuss: How post-GFC regulations shifted risky lending from banks into private credit markets Private credit ratings lacking transparency, raising investment grade classification concerns Redemption queues in semi-liquid private credit structures Covenant-light lending surging from ~10% to nearly 90% of leveraged finance Australia's inflation rates

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  Episode 47: Rethinking the role of listed infrastructure in portfolios

  May 19, 202623 minS0

  <p>Join our host <b>Emily Barlow (Evidentia Group)</b> and <b>Ben Morton, Head of Listed Infrastructure at Cohen & Steers</b> as they discuss </p>how global forces are reshaping the opportunity set for listed infrastructure investorshow to think about this asset class in a world of faster technological and policy changeswhether infrastructure investments tend to provide equity-like returns at presentwhat the outlook is for listed infrastructure investments

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