Our hosts are Tara O’Reilly and Jack Kavanagh.

Welcome to the Economics and Finance class.

Today, we are very pleased to welcome Raul Afonso, Chartered Financial Analyst and Chief Economist at MFW (Multi Family Wealth). MFW is an investment firm providing investment services on managed accounts and investment funds.

Thank you for coming in to speak to us Raul. Can you share a little of your own story, how you came to Ireland and talk about the tools you use in your role as Economist and Financial Analyst?

[Raul opens with self-introduction and present some slides e.g. asset allocation, fund management, showcase doing analysis on output from Bloomberg]

I have a question; would you say that programming skills are necessary or just nice-to-have?

Could you share some key information sources you think we as Economics and Finance students should know about and follow?

With the time left we’d like to open it to questions from the audience…

(question from audience)

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Before we finish, is there anything further you'd like to add?

Well, this has been an informative talk. Thank you so much for your time and for sharing your thoughts and experience with us today.

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

Key books mentioned?

Key pods, articles mentioned?

Other links…

Multi Family Wealth – the investment management company - https://mfw.ie

https://yardeni.com/charts/feds-stock-valuation-model/

https://www.ft.com/alphaville

https://www.zerohedge.com – the most famous blog in finance.

https://www.cfasociety.org/portugal/home

Acknowledgements

Music

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Cover Art

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Artist: Allen Higgins

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