Alsek Research

INVESTMENT STRATEGY CONSIDERATIONS

Mapping the Future Economic Trends and

Market System:

The Players, The Rules, The Game.

By monitoring Globalization of Financial Institutions

Regional Development, Policy and Regulation

with foresight, research, and analysis

EDGY ECONOMICS does not provide STOCK  or TRADING recommendations.   Its intent is to interpret MARKET BEHAVIOR and FUTURE GLOBAL ECONOMIC OUTLOOK.

Alsek helps professionals get the Big Picture and identify forces on the markets.

You will not be flooded with emails, newsletters, and hyped opinions of daily market results or stock tips or end of the world scenarios.  Instead, the EDGY ECONOMICS t is sent approximately 2X a month with intermittent special issues when events occur that raise people's concern of the potential impact on the stock market.  Hence, delivery is not so daily.

It's Hard, It's To the Point

Financial advisers, who are searching for logical explanations of the current events that impact the global markets, will find Alsek's EDGY ECONOMICS and ALSEK ALERTS a source of insight not found in news, blogs, or websites.  The update is presented in a no-nonsense fashion that professionals and individual investors will appreciate.  This approach cannot be found in any other investor tools.  It offers a market outlook at that considers factors beyond economic indicators.

Alsek Research is intent on maintaining unbiased, balanced analysis that filters through the media and others with special interest.  Systems thinking and other modeling methods are used to weigh in on the major forces that impact changes, raise risk awareness, and highlight EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES.

Warning:  Political influences, uncertainties, and social disruptions are discussed and assessed as a risk or opportunity when they are identified as a force pressuring the market.  This publication is meant to build an understanding of the fundamentals of the global economic structure, highlight changes of sentiment, signals of new development, and most of all to weed through the media hype and noise -- not to make stock recommendations. 

• Each update tries to answer:What are the markets doing? What is behind the current considerations?  What do the charts show? What to watch for.

• Datapoints that could indicate an emerging trend, a change in direction, or significant point for substantiating a possible future projection in trading and market trends.

• Comments from leading economists regarding uncertainties and debates about economic conditions are gathered to interpret the current status without media and analysts' influence.

Benefit to Financial Advisers

Besides building foresight skills, EDGY ECONOMICS provides insight to issues in the news, connects the dots to minimize complexity, simplifies the noise, and makes a logical assessment that investors understand.  EDGY ECONOMICS assumes financial advisers have all the economic indicators at their hands.  This update provides a depth to the drivers behind the market moves --  the drivers and forces -- human behavior, technical trading, business practices, policies, and more. 

Advisers:

• Develop a broader look, a deeper dive of the macro economic environment.

• Get logical explanations of the current climate that relate to clients' need-to-know.

• Understand the system dynamics of global developments.

• Track momentum and stress factors of prominent global trends.
  

• Receive insight conceived with foundation skills in economic geography, systems thinking, cycles theory, futures studies, and more to enhance their outlook.

• Get timely material that addresses current news items that signal potential changes worth considering.

EDGY ECONOMICS and Alsek Research are not the typical regurgitated news or opinion.  The analysis aims to uncover the mian forces and their possible consequences for strategic decisions.

Behind the Analysis

Receive insight from Joan Foltz's 20 years experience as a business strategist working for multinational corporations and modeling skills that draw the information necessary to make decisions for risk and opportunity assessment.   A professional futurist with more than 20 years trading experience, Joan Foltz understands when an issue is taking the shape of a cyclical event, a secular market, or simply seasonal conditions that enable other factors to dominate markets.  And as an investor, she tries to find the answers to the questions that any investor needs to make sense of the market.

Research at Alsek will continue to focus on the future formation of the global community, and the social and economic evolution of an increasingly integrated world -- from the trading room, to the global flow of capital, to methods for identifying tipping points, to human consumption behavior -- the World System will be explored.

Contact Joan Foltz at Alsek Research if you have any questions.  Feedback is welcomed.