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Global Predictions is holding a generative AI challenge starting Tuesday, April 4 and running through the end of the month. Winner to receive $1,000. The goal is to summarize macroeconomic and/or financial time series data in chart headline / tweet format automatically.

Today, we are thrilled to announce the launch of PortfolioPilot Insights, a feed of essential macroeconomic insights that empowers you to make better investment decisions with increased confidence.

See all your accounts in one place, quickly understand how your portfolio is doing, and improve your portfolio with personalized recommendations and one-click portfolio optimization.

“Lisa is a world-class marketer and has been immensely helpful in guiding our consumer approach in building PortfolioPilot, our consumer wealth management platform,” said Alexander Harmsen, CEO and co-founder of Global Predictions. “With a lofty mission in democratizing access to traditionally gated investment tools and insights for self-directed investors, we are fortunate to have Lisa’s expertise.

We’ve partnered with Questrade and Passiv to offer streamlined integrations. That means that users of Questrade, Wealthsimple, and RBC Direct Invest can seamlessly and securely link their accounts to PortfolioPilot, including their RRSPs and TFSAs (tax privileged accounts), and see all their investments, including the equity in their homes, in one place, in Canadian dollars. We’ve also added comprehensive coverage for Canadian securities, including Canadians equities and ETFs.

Global Predictions can now support more types of investment accounts via a recent partnership with SnapTrade. This means that users who hold investments with Questrade, Kraken, Webull, Alpaca, and many more can now include those assets within Global Predictions.

We’re launched GP Portal v2.0, which includes significant design enhancements that makes it easy for you to link and manage your investments, in addition to a number of significant backend and model enhancements. Now, you can see how your portfolio would perform in simulation, view recommendations, and see your existing portfolio reweighted to optimize its Sharpe Ratio.

Global Predictions is delighted to announce that Reid Hartman (ex-Bridgewater) has joined the company as Co-Founder and Head of Quantitative Economics. 

Global Predictions is pleased to announce a partnership with Quiver Quantitative, a leading provider of alternative data for retail investors. The first outcome of this partnership is an inflation dashboard, now live on the Quiver Quantitative site.

Global Predictions today announced a $2M raise from Village Global, Morado Ventures and AME Cloud Ventures. The San Francisco-based startup uses the world’s largest macroeconomic model to bring hedge fund caliber models to retail and institutional investors.

Presenting Global Prediction Inc, a company building the digital twin of the economy to forecast medium term worldwide events and conditions. Taking into account everything from public health and demographics to macroeconomics and market dynamics, this top down AI-hybrid model will change the way we see the economy...

TLDR: take any cash in bank accounts above deposit insurance (typically, $250K for the US institutions) and spread it across multiple institutions or park it in safe, short-term securities (not because there is impending doom, but because it is the prudent thing to do). Brokerage and retirement accounts are largely fine but use reputable institutions and don’t hold excess unallocated cash.

The start of a new year is an excellent time for investors to review their financial goals and ensure they're on track to achieve them. Here are ten things investors should consider doing as we enter 2023:

One of the biggest mistakes self-directed investors make is not taking advantage of tax-loss harvesting, which involves offsetting gains with holdings that have incurred losses. For many investors they’re leaving money on the table if they don’t know how to optimize their tax bill.

Every couple of years, when markets overall perform well, one starts to hear about the death of hedge funds. Investors who ‘no longer see the value’ either pull money out in droves or at least negotiate better terms, and the popular press decrees the end of an era. However, if you look under the hood right now, you’ll see that some funds are thriving. What sets them apart, and what can we learn from their performance?

Over the past several decades, conventional wisdom that investors could not beat an efficient market led to the rise of index mutual funds and then the boom of ETFs, and newer offerings such as robo-advisors have made constructing passive portfolios even easier and more tax-efficient; however, our view is that strict passivity leaves personalization and better returns on the table.

There’s an allure to hand-picking stocks with the hopes of finding the next big one. No thanks to the financial media, there is a fear of missing out – but the simple truth is that it’s very difficult to outperform the market. Even actively managed funds struggle to do so.

As an investor, you should understand how inflation — and the surrounding economic regime — can impact your investments in order to manage your portfolio. Inflation-linked bonds, commodities, certain equities, and real estate are reasonable candidates to do well in many inflationary environments.

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, investors continue to grapple with the challenges it has borne upon the global economy. How did we get here, how do we understand the current situation, and what should investors do in response?

Three lessons from a hedge fund manager on how they evaluate and optimize risk in their portfolios, and a link to the "5 Secrets to thinking like a hedge fund manager"

5 ways you can start 2022 on good financial footing using the GP Portal to help control your investments and financial health

2020 was a year of unprecedented events, from the Australian wildfires which began the year to the COVID-19 pandemic which consumed most of it. Some of these events were predicted well in advance and represented intensifications of existing trends, particularly those concerning environmental disasters resulting from climate change. Others, however, were seen as “unpredictable” and defying of conventional wisdom pushed through official channels of expertise. To name but a few, the continued rise of the stock market, the increased pace of housing starts and sales despite the pandemic, and the so-called “K-shaped” economic recovery coming from it, went against the expectations of many institutional actors, suggesting a disconnect between institutional predictive analysis and what’s actually happening in the world...

Using Global Predictions is like having 20 data analysts, connecting the best of macro-research and diverse data sources about the economy with the specifics of your financial goals, as represented within your portfolio

Global Predictions can give you personalized recommendations about how to tune your investments to best align your investment objectives with your asset allocation. Find out what kind of suggestions are waiting for you!

"Past performance does not guarantee future results, and she realized there had to be a better way to push past the front page of her financial news sources and begin to understand the economic relationships she was seeing reflected in her portfolio of stocks, ETFs and commodities."