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America First

Why the trend is still your friend. US equities have been outperforming the European markets for the better part of four decades....

Christian Armbruester

May 9, 20222 min read

Death Before Taxes

Why the government should not have to take more than half of what we earn. For anyone not living in a tax haven, the government takes a...

Christian Armbruester

Feb 14, 20222 min read

672 Days Later

Why everything is worse, but better than it seems. If someone had told me in March 2020, that two years later the pandemic was still in...

Christian Armbruester

Jan 24, 20222 min read

Real Things

Why trading commodities could be the best thing you ever do. There is another world out there and it has been around a lot longer than...

Christian Armbruester

Jan 17, 20222 min read

Debt

Why the going is good, until it isn’t. Benjamin Franklin once said that it is better to go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt....

Christian Armbruester

Jan 10, 20222 min read

Seven Fearless Predictions

Why 2022 will be different than we expect. It’s good to look back in time and learn from the past. As long as one does not get too...

Christian Armbruester

Jan 4, 20222 min read

Millsie Awards

Why you should not miss our inaugural review of what engaged you the most. More than 200 weekly blog posts later, and we may have finally...

Christian Armbruester

Dec 13, 20212 min read

Analysis Paralysis

Why in our next lifetime we should all come back as equity analysts. He should have known better, but I suppose when you are devoid of...

Christian Armbruester

Dec 6, 20212 min read

Chewbacca Defence

How to invest in a world that has gone parabolic. Apples don’t rise from the ground to reattach themselves to the tree, pigs can’t fly,...

Christian Armbruester

Nov 22, 20212 min read

Compliance

Why we should all aspire to become compliance officers. One has to question the value of ticking countless boxes across seemingly endless...

Christian Armbruester

Oct 26, 20212 min read

Long and Short

Why trading can lead to baldness. The concept of betting on prices falling is not really that complicated to understand, so long as you...

Christian Armbruester

Oct 11, 20212 min read

Arbitrage

Why hair care is better than quantitative analysis. When I first heard the term statistical arbitrage, I thought it was a joke. The kind...

Christian Armbruester

Sep 27, 20212 min read

Darling Buds of May, Revisited, Again

Why September is a month to remember. Thankfully, we didn’t sell in May and go away. Global equities are up another 7% since then and...

Christian Armbruester

Sep 20, 20212 min read

Something Else

Why alternatives to equites and bonds are hard to find. Nothing beats the S&P 500 at a time when central banks have pumped trillions and...

Christian Armbruester

Sep 13, 20212 min read

When We Were Kings

Why life is but a stage and many of them. My father always said, time goes by quicker the older you get. As a child I never quite knew...

Christian Armbruester

Aug 31, 20212 min read

Casino

Why we all need Justin Bieber to help us beat the markets. Everybody thinks they are better than average. Why else try anything? So, it...

Christian Armbruester

Aug 23, 20212 min read

Gold, Revisited, Again

Why coins are better than bullion and the eighties will never die. For some reason, whenever I think of Gold I can’t get that rather...

Christian Armbruester

Aug 16, 20212 min read

Bitcoin, Revisited

Why cryptocurrencies are unlikely to go away. Last month we had a heavy rebalance. Selling stocks in one currency, buying bonds in...

Christian Armbruester

Aug 9, 20212 min read

Zombies

Why the end of times may be closer than we think. If there is one redeeming quality to this pandemic, it is truly non-discriminatory....

Christian Armbruester

Aug 2, 20212 min read

Press Release: Blu Income Three Year Anniversary

Blu Family Office is delighted to announce the three year anniversary of The Blu Income Fund which launched on 1st November 2016. In the...

Blu Family Office

Nov 13, 20191 min read