Joseph Noko (pronounced “nookoo”) is an investment analyst, investor, and economist who builds AI systems for investment research. He is ranked in the top 10 (LTM) globally on SumZero amongst a professional membership in excess of 16,000. His model portfolio, launched in 2024, has delivered annualised returns exceeding 30%, consistently outperforming the S&P 500. He was also a top-10 forecaster in the Good Judgment Project’s COVID-19 tournament.

His research is published through his newsletter, The Mirandolan, on SumZero, where it is read by more than 570 analysts and portfolio managers worldwide, and on the website of the world’s best fundamental investment research firm New Constructs, where he is a contributing analyst. 

His investment process integrates expectations investing, forensic accounting, and financial economics. His approach to risk is drawn from his master’s thesis, The Nature of Risk, which investigated the measurability of risk and the prospect of ruin. Drawing on Knight, Keynes, Bernoulli, Shannon, and Kelly, it argues that risk is subjective, not all risks are quantifiable, and that loss aversion is rationally obligatory given the multiplicative dynamics of wealth.

He also builds AI systems for investment research, developing agentic workflows that integrate macro-financial analysis, probabilistic classification, and security selection across asset classes, using AI as infrastructure for systematic decision-making under uncertainty. He currently serves as a finance expert/AI trainer at micro1, working with global AI labs. 

He holds a Master’s in Law and Finance from the Université d’Angers, France, graduating magna cum laude. 

He may be contacted through LinkedIn, SumZero, and by email below.