20-20 Investment Association is a group of the world's most prestigious and economically powerful institutional investors who together represent over US$7 trillion in investment capital. Members include sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, family offices and money management organizations with headquarters in 10 countries. Over the past twenty seven years, 20-20 members have invested billions of dollars in emerging and frontier markets. Membership is by invitation only and provides opportunities to participate in two yearly events: an annual meeting and an annual exploratory trip to an emerging market country or region. More information on our events is here. Members have the opportunity to collaborate with senior level decision-makers representing other organizations in a membership that is increasingly diversified internationally. Networking includes: the exchange of ideas and information between owners and investors of capital; insight into best practices in the global investment industry; and meeting and building relationships with government, investment, and business leaders around the world. The dialogue created during 20-20 Investment Association events helps shape the framework used by individual members to make their investment decisions. Consistent with George Russell's original vision, 20-20 Investment Association is a non-profit organization, not oriented toward a bottom line but rather toward educating its members about the world's emerging and frontier markets and fulfilling a commitment to corporate social responsibility in the countries we visit. As more investments are directed into emerging and frontier markets, the resulting improved standards of living will hopefully play a role in helping reduce poverty and ultimately global conflict.
Sentiment Shifts collects unique investor sentiment data. There are many services that survey advisors and newsletter writers, but few that survey individual investors. We specialize in surveying and collecting the sentiment of individual investors. These investors, right or wrong, accurate or inaccurate, plunge daily, weekly, and yearly into the financial markets. They make the market tick and represent the most important and largest segment of the market. They're called Mr. Market. Sentiment Shifts captures the true emotions of Mr. Market. We survey investors on more market categories and asset classes than any other service available today. Our team has been collecting investor sentiment and market expectations data since 1997. The data we collect identifies extreme shifts in market sentiment and major turns in the investment markets. Sentiment Shifts is founded and owned by Paul Hauck. Hauck is one the leading authorities in capturing and understanding the emotions of investors. He is well known as the first to develop a web site that collected earnings expectations from individual investors. This concept and web site became feared, but respected by the top CEO's in America. It changed the way investors viewed corporate earnings. This measure is now widely viewed as more useful and important than analyst consensus earnings estimates. Hauck has now focused his attention to investor sentiment, a larger and far more accurate benchmark. His team tracks market sentiment all over the world. We provide a window into the thoughts and emotions of investors on global markets, market indices, sectors, ETF's, emerging markets, commodities, currencies, and global bonds categories. Sentiment Shifts also collects sentiment on new and emerging investment categories such as the 'green sector' or green investing, BRIC nations, currency cross rates, and many other unique investment topics. Never before has sentiment been more important than it is today. Hauck and his team are best known for their ability to clearly ...
Eastern Point Capital Management (EPCM) is a boutique asset management firm specializing in emerging and frontier markets. EPCM manages a concentrated portfolio of local on-the-ground emerging market equity managers for sophisticated institutional investors.