George Bijak

CPGLI indicator aims to provide advance signals of the most lucrative periods of the stock market when profits grow strongly and market follows the trend. Historically, these were the best times to be overweight and leveraged in equities. More importantly, the CPGLI indicator aims to reduce investment risk by identifying periods of weaker profits growth associated with below average and volatile stock market returns. Historically, such times required reduction of exposure to equities and avoiding leverage. The research would be most beneficial to global multi-asset, global macro, alternative, special situations funds and proprietary traders who are allowed to widely adjust allocation to equities and level of leverage. The independent research supports investment decisions and recommendations of the client fund managers, investment boards/committees, investment strategists and investment consultants. The company has an established superior performance track record since 2006. George Bijak is Investment Strategist and Managing Director of GB Capital Pty Ltd. He also edits a macroeconomic column in the Australian Hedge - a Triple A Partners newsletter for alternative/hedge funds industry. George outperformed the market during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). His independently audited actual investment strategy returned 83% for 5 years from 2006 to 2010 compared to negative 1% for S&P 500 index. He moved all assets to cash at the market top in November 2007 just before the GFC and correctly called the market bottom in March 2009 recommending strong overweight in leveraged equities. George bases his Dynamic Asset Allocation and Investment Strategy on the outlook provided by his proprietary Corporate Profits Growth Leading Indicator (CPGLI). George began his studies into the cyclicality of asset classes pricing whilst completing his MBA at the Australian Graduate School of Management in the University of NSW. He was inspired to pursue his research into the phenomenon of cyclicality of asset classes pricing by Dr Don Stammer, Chief Economist and Director Investment Strategy, Deutsche Bank who awarded him the Schroders Investment Bank Prize for the best student in Capital Markets. Dr Stammer has watched George's CPGLI Outlooks over the recent years. In searching for answers into why and how corporate profit cycles work George was not satisfied with the explanations in the available theories, so he developed his own. He has used this unpublished theory to build his Corporate Profits Growth Leading Indicator (CPGLI) which provides an outlook of the major macro turning points in Corporate Profits. George's senior management and professional international experience in the USA, Europe and Australasia is with large groups such as IBM, NCR, Coca Cola and smaller companies (NCG, GB Capital). His roles span macroeconomic analysis, asset allocation, stock market research, investment analysis, valuations, business planning & analysis, corporate finance, venture capital, mergers & acquisitions and private equity. Earlier George was a general manager of a computers manufacturing plant that he established following a successful international technology transfer. In addition to his MBA George has also completed a Master of Engineering Degree (Electronics), Financial Planning Course and Mergers & Acquisitions Course at the Securities Institute. His paper “A Concept of Multiple-Entity Accounting for Capital Distribution” was presented and published in April 2003 at The International Conference General Accounting Theory in statu nascendi.