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Weird Shit Investing
A highly curated conference plus a (free) manual
Hong Kong, London, New York
2024-2026
Genuinely original investment ideas
The Weird Shit Investing conferences brought together a highly curated, truly creative audience who shared genuinely original investment ideas and challenged one another's thinking.
Designed for the misfits and iconoclasts of the investment industry, Weird Shit Investing offered a creative outlet and a community of like-minded individuals who would otherwise never have met.
Launched in London and New York in 2024, the conference quickly developed a loyal following. In 2025, it expanded to Hong Kong, creating a unique international forum for investors with unconventional ideas.
Each annual event also produced "Weird Shit Investing – The Manual", a collection of summaries of the investment ideas presented by participants.
What made Weird Shit Investing so special?
Inspirations you simply wouldn't hear about elsewhere.
Weird Shit Investing presentations centred around ideas that were truly outside the box, including:
Very complex investment cases
E.g. multi-layered corporate structures
Less liquid securities
E.g. genuinely overlooked by corporate analysts
Extreme mispricing
E.g. when markets go mad or depressed and value assets completely wrongly
Crisis investing
E.g. securities from current or former war zones
Banned investments
E.g. securities that are currently under sanctions
Litigation investing
E.g. defaulted financial claims
Roadmaps for going activist
E.g. how to force "The Economist" to open up
Demutualisation
E.g. stock exchanges that are owned by members
Unusual financing structures
E.g. French viagers or death-spiral lending
Exotic but tradeable bourses
E.g. stocks from Serbia, Iran, or Nigeria
Dormant assets
E.g. mines that were closed down
Funds with a twist
E.g. funds that own claims valued at zero on their books
Niche alternative assets
E.g. ultra-scarce industrial metals like rhodium
Outlier subjects of broad interest
E.g. how to offset fx in markets like Turkey
Non-equity opportunities
E.g. fixed income, currencies and any other investible asset classes
Weird shit, so to speak!
The manual
With no video recordings of the presentations, each edition of "Weird Shit Investing – The Manual" became the official record of the conference.
Each annual event helped create a (free!) manual with:
- A summary of each investment case presented
- A section on the valuation and return profile of the investments
- Some ancillary content such as interviews with top investment minds
Taken together, the 2024-2026 editions of the manual contain more than 100 investment ideas.
Get free access to previous conference manuals here:
Weird Shit Investing 2026 – The Manual (40 ideas, 117 pages)
Weird Shit Investing 2025 – The Manual (49 ideas, 166 pages)
Weird Shit Investing 2024 – The Manual (26 ideas, 59 pages)
Weird Shit Investing goes online
After three years of in-person conferences across Hong Kong, London, and New York, Weird Shit Investing is entering its next chapter.
The in-person conference is taking a break in 2027, but the journey doesn't end here.
Instead, we're launching "Weird Shit Investing Online" – our first fully virtual edition.
Taking place on 28 July 2026, Weird Shit Investing Online will feature a full day of high-conviction investment ideas from speakers around the world – ideas you are unlikely to hear about elsewhere.
Weird Shit Investing Online is open to everyone. If you can't attend live, your ticket also includes access to the recordings after the event.
