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Managing Wealth Effectively
Equities - Creating your Own Index
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Alternative Investments Explained
Affliction
Why we should always stick to the choices we make. It’s all about consistency. Even in situations with odds no better than even. If you...
Christian Armbruester
Sep 26, 20222 min read
Crash
Why it is not a question of if, but when, and what we are going to do about it. If something has gone up a lot, there is the possibility...
Christian Armbruester
Jul 26, 20212 min read
Darling Buds of May, Revisited
Why equities are resisting temptation. The temperatures are starting to rise, Spring is in the air, and it is time for that question we...
Christian Armbruester
May 10, 20212 min read
Stop Loss
Why there can be only one number to rule them all. There comes a point in every relationship when things are not so nice. Couples argue,...
Christian Armbruester
May 4, 20212 min read
Uncertainty
Why we can’t time tail risk. No one likes uncertainty. It interferes with our basic needs to plan and think ahead. Not knowing what is...
Christian Armbruester
Mar 1, 20212 min read
Vixer
Why the measure of volatility on the S&P 500 is as important as ever. Any words that contain the letter “x” are quite rare and inherently...
Christian Armbruester
Nov 23, 20202 min read
Electric Dreams
Why machines are our best friends. What is the difference between an active or a systematic trading strategy? This question is probably...
Christian Armbruester
Oct 19, 20202 min read
Everything Comes in Waves
How to manage the risk of everything going wrong. There it was again, the very tangible risk of something very bad happening. The...
Christian Armbruester
Feb 10, 20202 min read
The Risk Premium
The first thing we learn in our financial education is that in order to make money, we have to take risk. Otherwise, there would be...
Christian Armbruester
Oct 21, 20192 min read
Risk and The Future
We all know the first rule of finance: to make higher returns, you have to take more risk. So, it should also logically follow that, if I...
Christian Armbruester
Jan 28, 20192 min read
Investments, Knowledge and Winning Wimbledon
The difference between knowing and knowing what to do is huge, and no more so when it comes to investing. To a large degree, I think we...
Christian Armbruester
Jan 21, 20192 min read
Everyone Makes Mistakes
Everyone makes mistakes. It’s what we tell ourselves when things go wrong, and it is in fact true. The average person probably makes...
Christian Armbruester
Dec 3, 20182 min read
Blu Family Office
May 21, 20180 min read
What To Do About Risk Management
The thing about risk, is that there is uncertainty. By definition, anything other than 100% means we come up short by some measure and...
Christian Armbruester
May 8, 20183 min read
The Risk of Not Investing Revisited
We meet a lot of people. It is one of the advantages of investing across a large universe of different strategies and, of course, being a...
tomtardif23
Apr 30, 20182 min read
Tail Risk Revisited
The risk in financial markets has increased, by measure of the rather large and sudden price swings we have had since the beginning of...
Christian Armbruester
Mar 14, 20182 min read
Diversifying Investment Risk, Rather Than Trying to Predict the Future
Christian Armbruester, CEO, explains why we eschew traditional strategic asset allocation approaches, focusing instead on diversifying...
Christian Armbruester
Jan 10, 20187 min read
What is Tail Risk? Can You Hedge It?
Tail risk is defined as the possibility that an investment can move more than three standard deviations from the mean in a normal...
Christian Armbruester
Oct 23, 20172 min read
The Risk of Not Investing
Doing nothing can seem like such an elegant idea. After all available options have been thoroughly analysed and no appealing solution...
Christian Armbruester
Sep 14, 20172 min read
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