Bridgewater & Associates is commonly known as the world’s largest hedge fund, with more than $140 Billion in assets under management and close to 1,500 employees. Its founder Ray Dalio is about as eccentric as you would expect from the founder of the world’s largest hedge fund – penning his own manifesto, and installing a […]
Category: Guest Post
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Aug
2019
16
May
2019
Meb Faber’s Killer Podcast List
We list Meb Faber and his blog at www.mebfaber.com amongst our ‘required reading’ list of books and blogs, and had the opportunity to sit with him and a few members of his unofficial fan club in Chicago last week during the Morningstar Investment Conference. The unofficial Chicago @MebFaber fan club – vol, asset allocation, dividends […]
05
Feb
2019
RCM partners with Rapunzl Investments to bridge academia for students to the financial community
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. It’s easy to forget in the world of hedge funds and investments that things like lack of performance persistence, too much fees for beta exposure, or potential cracks in the market […]
25
Jul
2016
Metals, Crude, Unfazed by Presidents and Chinese Economy
Is it just us, or is everyone talking politics these days amidst the US conventions and upcoming election. While data journalists will tell you that it’s all relative when debating whether the economy will be better under a Democrat or Republican, we’re starting to see more and more articles predicting what commodity/financials/currency markets will do […]
23
Mar
2012
The Reformed Broker Reforms Financial Lit
If you follow the our blog, you know it’s no secret that we’re fans of Josh Brown over at The Reformed Broker. He tells it like it is with a sense of humor and humility, and that same refreshing writing style has transferred over to his new book- Backstage Wall Street: An Insider’s Guide to […]
14
May
2012
Guest Post: The Great Fall of China?
Jeffrey Dow Jones over at Cognitive Concord has a great post continuing the theme of politics influencing investing we witnessed last week at SALT. If China is really the potential disaster he describes, now is the time to ask whether or not your portfolio is buckled in.
11
Sep
2013
Sortino Ratio: Are you calculating it wrong?
The group over at Red Rock sure thinks so. Red Rock states the real definition of the Sortino ratio uses not the standard deviation of negative returns, but instead the ‘target downside deviation’, which is the deviations of the realized return’s underperformance from the target return. What does that mean to the normal person who has trouble reading math equations?
05
Jan
2016
25 Questions Every Investor Should Know About Commodity Long-Short Strategies
To discover the inner workings of what makes Red Rock Capital’s Commodity Long-Short program, click here to download whitepaper filled with 25 questions.
02
Mar
2016
Have Futures Losses? Take them back in Time
RSM have some words of wisdom regarding how you can carry losses on futures trading back onto past tax filings
10
Mar
2016
Guest Post: 10 Warning Signs of an Uncertain Market
Just what’s on the mind of some of the sharpest investment managers out there? We were lucky enough to have Mike Melissinos
