Emissions, Sustainability, Climate Economics

Colin Waugh gave a guest lecture at Bayes Business School in London on December 10, 2025 on the topic: “Global Carbon Emissions Markets: Rapid Evolution Amid rising Climate Stress”

Waugh presented to the students in the current year, 2025-2026, cohort of the MSc in Sustainable Management and Finance programme. The programme is run by Bayes Professor Ana-Maria Fuertes.

The presentation slides are available here

December 10, 2025
City of London University

Interview by Commodity Thursdays

CONTINUING TRADER EDUCATION

Over the past decades, the hottest trend in trading techniques has evolved from technical analysis to the Elliot Wave, from Quant Trading to algo analysis, to today’s AI traders who can manage portfolios blind, and while not without their glitches, rarely crash into a wall.

Whatever the merits and drawbacks of each approach, portfolio managers and professional investors have had to keep pace with the new knowledge required to interact with market movements profitably while satisfying their clients’ needs for superior returns.

As well as keeping apace of the key individual markets and the investor flows driving the prices money managers new and old have a continuous need for education and training to not fall behind the curve of their competition.

Learning to anticipate and anticipating what to learn, these are the twin challenges for the successful portfolio manager. In this, Strata Transitions participates alongside its peers in the marketplace as well as well as with business academia, sharing knowledge and ideas and debating the trends that matter in the marketplace

Over the past decades, the hottest trend in trading techniques has evolved from technical analysis to the Elliot Wave, from Quant Trading to algo analysis, to today’s AI traders who can manage portfolios blind, and while not without their glitches, rarely crash into a wall.

Whatever the merits and drawbacks of each approach, portfolio managers and professional investors have had to keep pace with the new knowledge required to interact with market movements profitably while satisfying their clients’ needs for superior returns.

As well as keeping apace of the key individual markets and the investor flows driving the prices money managers new and old have a continuous need for education and training to not fall behind the curve of their competition.

Learning to anticipate and anticipating what to learn, these are the twin challenges for the successful portfolio manager. In this, Strata Transitions participates alongside its peers in the marketplace as well as well as with business academia, sharing knowledge and ideas and debating the trends that matter in the marketplace

Over the past decades, the hottest trend in trading techniques has evolved from technical analysis to the Elliot Wave, from Quant Trading to algo analysis, to today’s AI traders who can manage portfolios blind, and while not without their glitches, rarely crash into a wall.

Whatever the merits and drawbacks of each approach, portfolio managers and professional investors have had to keep pace with the new knowledge required to interact with market movements profitably while satisfying their clients’ needs for superior returns.

As well as keeping apace of the key individual markets and the investor flows driving the prices money managers new and old have a continuous need for education and training to not fall behind the curve of their competition.

Learning to anticipate and anticipating what to learn, these are the twin challenges for the successful portfolio manager. In this, Strata Transitions participates alongside its peers in the marketplace as well as well as with business academia, sharing knowledge and ideas and debating the trends that matter in the marketplace

Over the past decades, the hottest trend in trading techniques has evolved from technical analysis to the Elliot Wave, from Quant Trading to algo analysis, to today’s AI traders who can manage portfolios blind, and while not without their glitches, rarely crash into a wall.

Whatever the merits and drawbacks of each approach, portfolio managers and professional investors have had to keep pace with the new knowledge required to interact with market movements profitably while satisfying their clients’ needs for superior returns.

As well as keeping apace of the key individual markets and the investor flows driving the prices money managers new and old have a continuous need for education and training to not fall behind the curve of their competition.

Learning to anticipate and anticipating what to learn, these are the twin challenges for the successful portfolio manager. In this, Strata Transitions participates alongside its peers in the marketplace as well as well as with business academia, sharing knowledge and ideas and debating the trends that matter in the marketplace

Colin Waugh’s latest article for the CID is available here