Patrick Schotanus

Patrick Schotanus works as an investment strategist and portfolio manager with Kames Capital in Edinburgh, UK. Previously, Patrick worked for Barclays Bank and Van Lanschot Bank in various international locations. He has 20 years’ investment experience. Patrick has an MBA from the University of Groningen, as well as a Masters degree in Financial Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. His professional qualifications include the CMT and RBA.

Patrick is also completing his Ph.D. in complex psychology at the University of Essex. His publications have been inspired by his research which introduces the Archetypal Market Hypothesis (AMH) to counterbalance the dominant Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The premise of the AMH is that capital markets manifest collective consciousness, referred to as “the market’s mind”. This premise suggests that investing involves more than cognition and reaches beyond rationality and logic, driven by the often overwhelming dynamics of mass psychology such as mood and sentiment. Supported by insights from other mind studies, like neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Patrick’s research emphasises the unconscious origin and phenomenal culmination of price discovery which escape axiomatic capture.