Author Asset Manager FinTwit Must Follow Podcaster Industry Thought Leader CEO/CIO There’s no exaggeration when describing Meb Faber as an influencer in the alts and investment world. His experience spans CEO/CIO of Cambria Investments, running his own popular podcast, and being a thought leader in the FinTwit world. In this can’t miss episode, we pick […]
Category: Podcasts
13
Apr
2020
The Principles of VIX Trading on The Derivative
The early world of VIX trading can be closely likened to the wild, wild West – or as some say – fun. Competition was lower, there were less algos and AI integration, and overall had lower volume and liquidity. And now – the VIX is an established and globally recognized gauge of U.S. equity market […]
03
Apr
2020
Trading Commodity Volatility: A woman’s perspective on The Derivative
Trading commodity volatility is a unique topic all on its own, but add in hedge fund manager Kimberly Rios, and you’ve got what we calculated as a 1 in 10,000 manager; how’s that for unique? Kimberly heads up the Catalyst Hedged Futures Strategy Fund and trades in and out of different volatility regimes in the […]
23
Mar
2020
Capturing the Global Sell-Off with Deep Field Capital on The Derivative
With seemingly insane bouts of market volatility making headlines for more than a month now, with this company and that strategy losing double digit percentages as markets continue to fall; our team has been fielding a ton of callings asking who’s been capturing a crazy market like this. We’ve also somehow found the time to […]
10
Mar
2020
Talking Asset Allocation, AI, and the Alpha Process with ReSolve Asset Management on The Derivative
Is now the time to ditch stocks and buy bonds? Gold? Should you just go to cash? These types of asset allocation decisions are hard enough in the calmest of times – and downright impossible when overwhelmed with fear and panic in times like the past few weeks as stocks have given back a good […]
27
Feb
2020
Protecting Against a Market Mutiny with Tail Risk, Convexity, & Long Vol on The Derivative
Has anyone been having fun the past few days? The “market”, as if there’s only one, has been in free-fall as the world tries to figure out what this Corona Virus will look like in terms of a possible global pandemic, down -8% in a week. That’s not a terribly huge move in the grand […]
26
Apr
2020
Valuing VIX and Volatility with Joe Tigay on The Derivative
VIX and volatility are buzz words that every trader knows, thinks about, and maybe even utilizes. But VIX and volatility are subjects to not be taken too lightly – experts like Joe Tigay of Equity Armor Investments have spent years and years perfecting an understanding of the VIX curve, skew, and timing to get in […]
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 […]
