Convention 2012

The extraordinary thing about the Koornwinder Conventions is that their origins lie in Herma's amazing discovery, when she was a global markets analyst, that there was an order to the movements of share prices when everyone in the investments industry believed them to be random. Herma, in her analysis of stock markets, using information and communication technologies (ICT), discovered forces and patterns which she later recognised in earth energies at historic and sacred sites around the world.

     These energies and patterns, she discovered, are proof of a hidden universal structure or order based on number, geometry and proportion – in short, a self-organising fundamental principle of creation, which helped her to consistently predict the rises and falls of stock markets over a period of ten years in the eighties and nineties with great accuracy (checked by Deloitte & Touche).
 
     At the convention of 2010, Koornwinder called for a fundamental change in the banking and investment industry to ensure that 21st century methods for analysing trends in share markets, for example, are used to recover the losses suffered by pension in particular funds during the financial crises of recent years and to significantly improve the risk management of assets.

     By way of illustration, she produced a series of graphs showing how, in the six months prior to September 2001, individual stock markets around the world fell in domino fashion with a sudden downwards spike on the 10th - the day before the attack on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Koornwinder: “Share prices are the result of human behaviour and this behaviour creates patterns which manifest themselves in graphs. It was as if the markets knew what was about to happen!” The fact that in 1987 she was the only person in Europe to predict the worldwide stock market crash accurately to the day became hot news.

     Koornwinder: “Let us leave the old systems and investment models behind us. They have had their day and need to make way in view of all the disasters we have been through in the recent past whose end is not yet in sight. Our economic and financial systems need to become reliable and to serve everyone instead of the odd individual who manages to speculate on the movements of the market. Let us concern ourselves with the good of all.
     The disruption of worldwide ecosystems for the sake of economic interests urgently needs to be reconsidered if we want to continue to be able to offer our children the means to survive."