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About Bill Blain

About Bill Blain

Bill Blain is CEO of Wind Shift Capital Advisors advising clients on alternative asset investments, and author of Blain’s Morning Porridge – his say-it-like-it-is market commentary. He is a well-known market commentator, and a practising investment banker in the alternative private debt and equity sector. His clients include sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, insurance and pension managers, credit funds and family offices.

The Macro View

Blain’s Morning Porridge

Blain’s Morning Porridge

“Sophisticated investors buy negative yielding bonds – are you not a sophisticated investor?” What madness will today bring?  From up in the Shard’s Eyrie in the Walkie...

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The Macro View

Blain’s Morning Porridge

Blain’s Morning Porridge

Weebles Wobble but they don’t fall down..”  In the headlines this morning Blain’s Financial Porridge Podcaston Website (Subscribe to Audioboom podcast or go...

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The Macro View

The summer of discontent

The summer of discontent

Widespread disaffection, income-inequality, Brexit and Donald Trump – will it get better? I sense that summer 2019 in London is going to be a disruptive hell. Climate change...

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The Macro View

Blain’s Morning Porridge

Blain’s Morning Porridge

“I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.” In the headlines this morning Subscribe to podcast Happy...

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The Macro View

Blain’s Morning Porridge

Blain’s Morning Porridge

“France has no friends, only interests…” In the headlines this morning. When the Fed Chairman has to say he’s “insulated from short-term political pressures”, then you know his...

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The Macro View

Blain’s Morning Porridge

Blain’s Morning Porridge

“Every unresolved problem eventually creates something worse to solve it…” In the headlines this morning... I switched on the TV this morning and watched Naga sitting on the...

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