London, 11 June 2024 | Sold out
New York, 13 June 2024 | 1 speaker slot left

The conference

The Weird Shit Investing conference brings together a highly curated, truly creative audience who will share genuinely original investment ideas.

The inaugural, 2024 edition takes place in London (32 participants – 20 speakers, 12 voyeurs) and New York (24 participants – 18 speakers, 6 voyeurs).

The conference
The conference

London, 11 June 2024 | Sold out
New York, 13 June 2024 | Sold out

The conference

The Weird Shit Investing conference brings together a highly curated, truly creative audience who will share genuinely original investment ideas.

The inaugural, 2024 edition takes place in London (32 participants – 20 speakers, 12 voyeurs) and New York (24 participants – 18 speakers, 6 voyeurs).

Presentations

Each one-day event will feature 15-minute presentations by participants, and allow room for Q&A.

Presentations will centre around ideas that are truly outside the box, including:

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Very complex investment cases

E.g. multi-layered corporate structures

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Less liquid securities

E.g. genuinely overlooked by corporate analysts

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Extreme mispricing

E.g. when markets go mad or depressed and value assets completely wrongly

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Crisis investing

E.g. securities from current or former war zones

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Banned investments

E.g. securities that are currently under sanctions

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Litigation investing

E.g. defaulted financial claims

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Roadmaps for going activist

E.g. how to force “The Economist” to open up

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Demutualisation

E.g. stock exchanges that are owned by members

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Unusual financing structures

E.g. French viagers or death-spiral lending

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Exotic but tradeable bourses

E.g. stocks from Serbia, Iran, or Nigeria

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Dormant assets

E.g. mines that were closed down

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Funds with a twist

E.g. funds that own claims valued at zero on their books

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Niche alternative assets

E.g. ultra-scarce industrial metals like rhodium

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Outlier subjects of broad interest

E.g. how to offset fx in markets like Turkey

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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 will also help produce the “Weird Shit Investing” manual, featuring over 30 ideas shared by all participants.

The manual