Jim Fried of Fried On Business talks to Akhil Patel, Founder of Ascendant Strategy in London, UK. Akhil has professional experience in international banking and audit and has worked on a range of areas from infrastructure to climate finance — tap the image above to read the article and listen to the podcast.

In 2013, Akhil founded Ascendant Strategy, a boutique financial research firm that uses proprietary knowledge of economic, financial and stock market cycles to help investors make better investment decisions. He is Editor of Cycles, Trends and Forecasts, a widely-read financial newsletter in the UK that distills insights from his research to a broad audience. He is also a stock market and real estate investor and so puts into practice what he researchers. He has two Master’s Degrees in finance and Public Policy and a Bachelor’s Degree in Classics from Oxford.

Jim and Akhil discuss what the real estate cycle is, where are we in it and what that means to you.