Swiss Franc:
David Harding on the Swiss Franc Move – (CNBC)
The Swiss (Franc) isn’t that Neutral – (Attain Alternatives Blog)
Hedge Funds Dodge Shock Move From Swiss National Bank – (ValueWalk)
Podcast:
Category: Why Alternatives?
21
Jan
2015
12
Jan
2015
2014 – Best/Worst Performing Asset Classes
What “sport” has 1000s of teams, no rules, gets played night and day across the world with a scoreboard updated minute by minute, day by day, year by year, and decade by decade. It’s none other than the “game” of investing, where a new year is a great time to see where different assets finished in relation to each other.
30
Dec
2014
The 2014 Commy Awards
The Emmy Awards, the Webby’s, the ESPY’s, (why do they all end in y’s) we decided to do our own commodity awards… The 2014 Commy Awards:
24
Dec
2014
The Difference Between Then and Now
In case you missed it, we were featured in Investments News a couple months back explaining “Why Managed Futures Aren’t Getting the Job done.” It’s not just about the industry’s recent drawdown. It’s also about what kind of exposure you have, why some exposures might not be working, and what you can do to get the exposure you’re looking for.
Check it out if you have some downtime while you’re home for the holidays.
02
Dec
2014
11 things you should know about the Crude Oil Drop
Christmas came a month early for those short Crude Oil over the past couple of months, specifically last week, and even more specifically – Friday. Since July, WTI crude has dropped more than 30%, with 10% of that coming the day after Thanksgiving. And just about everyone and their mom (mom’s who have a blog about commodities?) have written something about the Crude Oil move. Here are the ideas we found most valuable to share.
25
Nov
2014
Option Trading is For (Thanksgiving) Turkeys
Now we’re not trying to lend advice on your eating habits, but can’t help but use this example in the investment realm. While it seems impossible to imagine this chart could be a stock market index tomorrow, next week, or next month – this chart is to remind those caught in stock market dream that anything could happen, at any moment, without notice; especially those selling volatility for a living
10
Nov
2014
Asset Class Scoreboard (where’d that stock loss go?)
The month’s Asset Class Scoreboard numbers is a perfect example of just how much noise is out there in the markets. If you were glued to your twitter feed in October, you may have been freaking out about the -5% drop, but someone who checks in monthly doesn’t even see it… October finished just fine for them after a somewhat rare stock market bounce.
28
Oct
2014
Pursuing Portfolio Perfection
It’s long been argued that that the point of “True Diversification” is to offer the lowest volatility providing the most returns. But what if exposing yourself to the lowest amount of Volatility is actually not the right choice? What if “Low Volatility is not so Smart?” We decided to take on the quest of the perfect portfolio, running the data on the 5 portfolio’s listed above over the past 10 years, to see which portfolio offered the best approach.
13
Oct
2014
Commodities Volatility in One Table
Here’s our monthly look at the various commodity ETFs and how they track a simple strategy of buying December futures and rolling them annually. Plus, a comparison to Ag Traders and an overall commodity index.
16
Sep
2014
150 Asset Class Returns in One Chart
We love these new looking charts that keep popping up (the latest was over here on Ritholtz) showing how the different asset classes go from the top to the bottom, to the middle, and so forth depending on the year… implying if not outright saying that it’s a fool’s game to try to pick which […]
