Course Details

Growing trends toward deglobalization and geopolitical multipolarity are leading to significant changes in corporate risk and valuations models and methodologies. Key risk premia in financial valuations are shifting from traditional factor-driven vertical and horizontal analysis of key corporate performance ratios to models relying on deeper, less tangible fundamentals. Geopolitical, geoeconomic, social and environmental uncertainty factors are requiring more holistic and less quantifiable approach to valuations. This is more consistent with the VUCA+ (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) framework for risk analysis and pricing, just as regulatory frameworks continue to amplify more data-specific risk models


In this webinar Constantin will cover the following topics:

  • The key framework for future business resilience and valuations modelling should embrace uncertainty, not risk, as the key driving factors of financial sustainability.
  • Uncertainty is tightly coupled with growing complexity of our economic environments, and ambiguity of the tools we have for addressing these.
  • Economic, political, environmental, geopolitical and other macro-level shocks are becoming more frequent, more disruptive and harder to anticipate, model and mitigate across traditional risk management frameworks.
  • Social and Governance dimensions of business strategy and operations are gaining in importance as public trust; institutional capital of liberal democracies and global political and policy systems are being strained by the transition to multipolar world (across internal and external political environments).
  • What models of corporate financial analysis are capable of absorbing these new factors? What models provide a flexible enough frameworks for integrating future, and currently nascent, but accelerating shocks (e.g. deployment and development of new technologies, such as AI, quantum computing, biotechnological augmentation, etc.)?


By attending this session, you will learn about the evolution of the corporate finance and investment research frontier that is being engendered by the changing macro-threat reality of the economic and socio-political transition we are undergoing since the start of this decade.


This session will be of most interest to 

  • Financial advisers
    • Corporate finance specialists
    • Auditors
    • Business owners
    • Investors and Venture Capital funders

 

Course level: Intermediate / Advanced

CPD Course Speaker

Trinity Business School – Trinity College

Constantin Gurdgiev

Constantin Gurdgiev is the Associate Professor of Finance with University of Northern Colorado (USA) and an Adjunct Professor of Finance with Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland, since 2000). His expertise and research are concentrated in the fields of investment markets, and geopolitical and macroeconomic risk, uncertainty and complexity analysis. Professor Gurdgiev advises a range of institutional and professional clients in the areas of macro and political risks and uncertainty analysis through his consulting practice, www.macroview.eu.

Professor Gurdgiev is a co-Founder and the Board Member of two charities working with the issues of financial empowerment in Europe and a Chairman of the Board of the Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (https://www.mortgageholders.ie/).

In the past, Professor Gurdgiev served as Associate Professor of Finance with Middlebury College (MIIS, California, USA), the Head of Research and Partner with St Columbanus AG (Switzerland), the Head of Macroeconomics with the Institute for Business Value, IBM (U.S.), and the Director of Research with NCB Stockbrokers, Ltd (Ireland).

Professor Gurdgiev regularly contributes to a range of international financial publications, including the The Currency, International Banker, Euromoney, and other. 

Professor Gurdgiev received his PhD in macroeconomics and finance from Trinity College Dublin. He and his family are currently residing in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA and Dublin, Ireland.