THERE’s a memorial to Paul the octopus at the Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen after the cephalopod seer earned worldwide fame by correctly predicting the outcome of all Germany’s seven games at the 2010 World Cup.
If the Netherlands win the 2026 tournament that kicked off on Thursday (Jun 11) in Mexico, there may be calls for a statue of Panmure Liberum’s Joachim Klement, the finance world’s reluctant oracle of World Cup forecasting.
Klement, a managing director at the London-based investment bank, is on a roll after the model he designed in 2014 successfully predicted Germany as the winner of that year’s tournament, followed by France in 2018 and Argentina in 2022.
The German investment strategist has been in demand on the media circuit in the run-up to this year’s extravaganza, threatening to overshadow more serious work on the market implications of the artificial…
