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Podcast: Plain English Finance
Fund Manager Alexander Chartres joins personal finance author Andrew Craig for a conversation covering capital preservation, building a defensive portfolio and the risks and opportunities in markets today.
Podcast: Merryn Talks Money
Fund Manager Alexander Chartres speaks to Bloomberg’s Merryn Somerset Webb about investing in a world marked by receding US dominance and a more inflation-prone, shock-driven global economy.
In conversation with Alexander Chartres
Fund Manager Alexander Chartres sits down with Investment Specialist Gemma Cairns-Smith to discuss the challenges facing investors in a more fractured global landscape. They cover the journey to this more multipolar and harder‑edged world order, its new power dynamics, and the renewed importance of real assets. They also discuss the skills investors need to survive in this hard new world.
Iliads and Odysseys
We have entered a new era, where hard power rules. Safely navigating this New World Disorder will require the agile intelligence of Odysseus.
In conversation with Alexander Chartres
Fund Manager Alexander Chartres sits down with Investment Specialist Gemma Cairns-Smith to discuss the challenges facing investors in a more fractured global landscape. They cover the journey to this more multipolar and harder‑edged world order, its new power dynamics, and the renewed importance of real assets. They also discuss the skills investors need to survive in this hard new world. Read Alexander’s article in The Ruffer Review 2026 ruffer.co.uk/rufferreview
Alpha@Omega
We are living through revolutions in geopolitics and economics (think tech). To exploit the resulting opportunities, a further revolution will be needed: in portfolio management. It’s all to play for.
Election 2024
September 2024: As the US presidential race enters its final straight, Dr Tim Smith and Alexander Chartres join Rory McIvor to discuss how investors are weighing up the prospects of a new administration.
Podcast: Merryn Talks Money
Fund Manager Alexander Chartres joins Merryn Somerset Webb and ByteTree CEO Charlie Morris to discuss Bitcoin and gold.
Minds over matter
The power of consciousness in markets is neglected by mainstream economics. But the mind’s ability to shape reality is critical for investors. That’s doubly true today thanks to the proliferation of alien intelligence and rapid changes in world order.
Reality cheques
We explore the intersection of natural risk with geopolitics and financial markets. Natural risk comes in many guises, from pandemic at the acute end of the spectrum to long-term challenges from a changing climate at the other. All matter for investors.
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