Past events & webinars

14 May 2025

2025: Funeral Diplomacy and Real-Time Geopolitics

Donald Trump has passed his 100-days-in-office milestone with plenty of shock and awe bullets coming from the Oval Office. Has his administration boosted the world’s largest economy? Perhaps the truth is being reflected in the behaviour of the bond markets.

In this podcast with financial economist Victor Hill and Master Investor’s Sarah Lowther, the pair discuss Trump, how the sidelining of Elon Musk has been good news for Tesla shareholders and wider geopolitics including the calm diplomacy of world leaders attending the funeral of Pope Francis.

Equally symbolic, Hill reflects, is Charles III’s opening of the new Canadian parliament.

As politics is played out in real time, Victor also discusses on what is determining the gold, oil and cryptocurrency markets and what market watchers and the curious should be mindful of in terms of UK political manoeuvres and global events of consequence.

9 April 2025

After globalisation

Wednesday, 9 April 2025, saw the U.S. impose a 104% tariff on China.  Beijing retaliated and raised its levy on U.S. imports to 84%. Will this tit for tat erode globalisation, or had the world trade model started unravelling years before Trump took office the first time round?

Financial economist Victor Hill talks to Sarah Lowther about the end-of-life psychology driving Donald Trump’s executive orders and how equities aren’t in the dire straits some commentators would have investors believe.

Victor compares Trump’s actions to the Nixon Shock of 1971 and argues that while tariffs could generate significant revenue, they could also lead to increased inflation and a potential recession. As usual there’s a silver lining and threads of optimism as Victor concludes that despite market volatility, long-term US Treasury yields and safe-haven assets like gold and the Japanese Yen are showing resilience.

29 March 2025

Master Investor Show 2025

Held on 29 March 2025 at the Business Design Centre in London, Master Investor’s flagship event offered an unparalleled opportunity for private investors to help shape their investment plans and find portfolio inspirations. With presentations from renowned investment experts on future trends and market analysis, as well as an exhibition comprising companies from across a range of asset classes and services, Master Investor Show once again proved it’s the UK’s leading event for private investors.

12 March 2025

Donald Trump’s new world order: what it means for you

Donald Trump’s ‘new world order’ may sound like a dystopian nightmare, but what impact are his flurry of executive orders and tariff policies having on the sleepless across the globe?

Financial economist Victor Hill shares his insights with Master Investor’s Sarah Lowther about how the U.S. President’s administration is diminishing stock market performance and economic projections while cosying up to The Kremlin.

Hill talks about ‘Trump Whisperer’ Keir Starmer and how the U.K. Prime Minister, his Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Climate Change minister Ed Milliband are in precarious positions unlike Wes Streeting who is revolutionising the NHS with AI and data-led initiatives.

No podcast is complete without an honourable Elon Musk mention and Hill outlines how the armies and mining geologists of the future may be transported to their destinations in Musk’s SpaceX fleet.

12 February 2025

The first tumultuous month of the Trumpian tornado and its economic repercussions

Financial economist Victor Hill dissects the flurry of executive orders that have defined the first few weeks of Donald Trump’s second Presidential term. Is he instigating a trade war or re-opening global negotiations of the past?

In this talk with Master Investor’s Sarah Lowther, Victor makes a prediction about the conflict in Ukraine and explains why Elon Musk views the upcoming election in Germany as “the most consequential European election since the war”.

The United Kingdom’s fiscal situation is laid bare as is the fate of the ‘Tech Bros’ with some commentators foreshadowing the ‘twilight of the U.S.’s tech oligarchs’.

9 January 2025

2025 – The global economy and year-ahead end games

2025 heralds the second Trump administration predicted to be transactional and strategic, but will it result in ceasefires relating to wars and economic inertia?

In this lookahead to 2025, financial economist Victor Hill discusses the global outlook through the lenses of politics, financial markets and the evolution of Muskonomics as the billionaire is used as a litmus test for the EV revolution in China.

In this conversation with Master Investor’s Sarah Lowther he also delves into the U.K. economic landscape and discusses if there’s a sequel to Rachel Reeves’ Autumn budget and whether she’ll release her fiscal corset.