The Portfolio Construction Forum’s Markets conference in Sydney, Australia will consider how to handle volatility, uncertainty, complexity and risk (VUCA) in 2020. This report looks at the applicability of supply chain data to portfolio construction as well as key lessons from Panjiva’s 2020 Outlook. Supply chain data is useful for deep-dive analysis of economy-wide trends down to specific industries and their companies and products in a process somewhat akin to a high-altitude, low-opening (HALO) parachute jump. The trade data underpinning Panjiva’s supply chain gra...