NextGen: Portfolio Strategy Academy 2025

The [i3] NextGen: Portfolio Strategy Academy is designed for mid-level portfolio managers and senior analysts ready to lead.

This academy aims to:

• Equip next-gen leaders with the strategic and adaptive thinking needed to navigate a rapidly evolving investment landscape.
• Foster a peer-to-peer environment where emerging talent can build enduring networks, challenge ideas, and learn from one another in a dynamic, future-focused setting.

Stronger Together: Building Networks That Endure

When faced with rising waters, fire ants instinctively bind themselves into living rafts, a seamless structure strong enough to float for days. Alone, they would sink. Together, they move forward.

For future investment leaders, building resilient networks will be just as vital. The alliances you forge across institutions, industries, and geographies won’t just open opportunities, they will anchor you when the tides of disruption rise.

This academy isn’t just about learning; it’s about linking arms with the future of the industry, creating bonds that will carry you farther than any individual ambition ever could.

The strongest leaders don’t just build portfolios.
They build people around them.

Timing the Sting: The Art of Decisive Leadership

A fire ant’s sting is not random, it is precise, fast, and devastating when needed. It acts only at the right moment, never wasting energy.

In an environment of accelerating change, investors must master the same discipline.

Leadership isn’t about endless action; it’s about recognising the critical moment, acting with courage, and leaving a meaningful mark. Those who can move sharply, communicate with conviction and stop when necessary will shape the future, not just react to it.

In a world of noise, precision wins.

Adapt Like Fire: Leading in an Age of Acceleration

Fire ants survive not because they predict the future, but because they are designed to adapt. When threats arise, they reorganise instantly, shifting roles, structures, and strategies without hesitation.

Today’s emerging leaders face a world where artificial intelligence, geopolitics, and policy shocks are rewriting the rules. Like the fire ant, the investors who will lead tomorrow won’t be the ones with the safest answers, they’ll be the ones who build systems that flex, think across time horizons, and act with clarity when the path is unclear.

This is the era of adaptive leadership, and it starts now.

Beyond Technicals: The Human Side of Leadership

Beyond technical expertise, the program sharpens the soft skills that matter:

• Negotiation and influence
• Decision-making
• Team dynamics and leadership
• Engaging with executives and boards
• Career development

 

Delivered through presentations, debates, and interactive sessions, this academy builds leaders who think, act, and adapt with confidence.

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