Ethical or not: using work investment strategies for personal investments

Doesn’t seem like it’s in breach of anything to me. You’re working on your own personal investments and applying what you have learned.

I’m assuming you are allowed to invest under company policy.

Go and clear it with your manager. This is not worth losing your job over.

Being devils advocate, what if the method itself would allow you to predict what investments some large institutions would eventually make? Would that be insider information or mosaic theory?The insider information being that you know that some large institutions use these methods to guide their investment strategy, that is.

That’s actually a very good point, that the insider information itself might not be regarding the investments, but the market movers and the methods they use.

Would that be considered material non-public information? I had a close look at Standard II(A) Material Nonpublic Information but couldn’t really conclude.

I voted for ‘ethical’. I think it’s fine as long as the methodology itself is not proprietary and insider knowledge.

Ethical if that promotes learning and the consequence of such investment doesnt affect or compromise the interest of the employer or interested parties.

Being devils advocate, what if the method itself would allow you to predict what investments some large institutions would eventually make? Would that be insider information or mosaic theory?

The insider information being that you know that some large institutions use these methods to guide their investment strategy, that is.