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Although IBKR has edited for clarity no material changes have been made<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson\">Andrew Wilkinson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to this week&#8217;s IBKR podcast. I&#8217;m Andrew Wilkinson, Director of Training Education here at Interactive Brokers, and my guest today\u2014first time on the show\u2014is Jeff Marine, who is the Managing Director for the Americas at Absolute Strategy Research. Welcome, Jeff. How are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jeff-marine\">Jeff Marine<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doing well, Andrew. Thanks for having me on today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrew-wilkinson-0\">Andrew Wilkinson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a pleasure. Now, we are going to learn a little bit more about Absolute Strategy Research, which is a renowned investment research publisher based in London but has a strong U.S. presence. The recent Asset Allocation Quarterly and webinar\u2014we&#8217;re on April the seventh\u2014give us an overview. Who is Absolute Strategy Research, or ASR, and what type of investor do you service?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jeff-marine-0\">Jeff Marine<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Terrific. Thanks, Andrew. So, ASR is a macro strategy research firm, and we have five interconnected products which very much associate with each other, starting out with global\/U.S. economics. The reason I say global\/U.S. is because the U.S. is the most important capital market and the largest economy in the world, so it naturally demands a lot of our attention. 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