The conference
The Weird Shit Investing conference brings together a highly curated, truly creative audience who share genuinely original investment ideas.
The inaugural, 2024 edition was held in London with 32 participants (20 speakers, 12 voyeurs) and New York with 24 participants (18 speakers, 6 voyeurs).
The conference
The Weird Shit Investing conference brings together a highly curated, truly creative audience who share genuinely original investment ideas.
The inaugural, 2024 edition was held in London with 32 participants (20 speakers, 12 voyeurs) and New York with 24 participants (18 speakers, 6 voyeurs).
Presentations
Each conference features 15-minute presentations by participants, and allows room for Q&A.
Presentations centre around ideas that are truly outside the box, including:
Very complex investment cases
E.g. multi-layered corporate structures
Less liquid securities
E.g. genuinely overlooked by corporate analysts
Extreme mispricing
E.g. when markets go mad or depressed and value assets completely wrongly
Crisis investing
E.g. securities from current or former war zones
Banned investments
E.g. securities that are currently under sanctions
Litigation investing
E.g. defaulted financial claims
Roadmaps for going activist
E.g. how to force “The Economist” to open up
Demutualisation
E.g. stock exchanges that are owned by members
Unusual financing structures
E.g. French viagers or death-spiral lending
Exotic but tradeable bourses
E.g. stocks from Serbia, Iran, or Nigeria
Dormant assets
E.g. mines that were closed down
Funds with a twist
E.g. funds that own claims valued at zero on their books
Niche alternative assets
E.g. ultra-scarce industrial metals like rhodium
Outlier subjects of broad interest
E.g. how to offset fx in markets like Turkey
Non-equity opportunities
E.g. fixed income, currencies and any other investible asset classes
Weird shit, so to speak!
Networking
Crucially, the Weird Shit Investing conference is also geared towards networking. We want every participant to have the opportunity to strengthen their network with like-minded people they would otherwise never have met – at a drinks get-together the evening before the conference, and a closing dinner after the conference. We have come up with a format which will ensure that everyone gets a lot of new contacts, even if you are not a natural networker.
And it doesn’t end at the conference.
Follow-up
Each event also helps produce “Weird Shit Investing – The manual”, featuring the best investment ideas shared by all participants.
The manual’s inaugural 2024 edition boasts 26 such ideas!
