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Managing Wealth Effectively
Equities - Creating your Own Index
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Alternative Investments Explained
This is The End
Why it is still better to be lucky than smart. As you purvey the current carnage in the financial markets, it’s difficult not to get...
Christian Armbruester
Mar 23, 20203 min read
This is The End
Why it is still better to be lucky than smart. As you purvey the current carnage in the financial markets, it’s difficult not to get...
Christian Armbruester
Mar 23, 20203 min read
Boys and Men
Why crashes are a wonderful way to discern good investment strategies from bad managers. Separating the proverbial “men from the boys” is...
Christian Armbruester
Mar 16, 20203 min read
Boys and Men
Why crashes are a wonderful way to discern good investment strategies from bad managers. Separating the proverbial “men from the boys” is...
Christian Armbruester
Mar 16, 20203 min read
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Why the Coronavirus may be the best thing that ever happened. It really is difficult at the moment to talk about anything other than this...
Christian Armbruester
Mar 9, 20202 min read
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Why the Coronavirus may be the best thing that ever happened. It really is difficult at the moment to talk about anything other than this...
Christian Armbruester
Mar 9, 20202 min read
The Coronavirus Revisited
What to do when the markets are crashing. A few weeks ago, we looked at the concept of tail risk, as exemplified by the outbreak of the...
Christian Armbruester
Mar 2, 20202 min read
The Coronavirus Revisited
What to do when the markets are crashing. A few weeks ago, we looked at the concept of tail risk, as exemplified by the outbreak of the...
Christian Armbruester
Mar 2, 20202 min read
Perspective
Why everything is relative when it comes to our wealth. In the middle of the 19th century, the British empire was at its grandest. All...
Christian Armbruester
Feb 24, 20202 min read
Perspective
Why everything is relative when it comes to our wealth. In the middle of the 19th century, the British empire was at its grandest. All...
Christian Armbruester
Feb 24, 20202 min read
Elephants, Germany and Money for Nothing
Why negative interest rates may be as bad as they seem. It’s the biggest elephant in the room ever, and it seems everyone has just...
Christian Armbruester
Feb 17, 20202 min read
Elephants, Germany and Money for Nothing
Why negative interest rates may be as bad as they seem. It’s the biggest elephant in the room ever, and it seems everyone has just...
Christian Armbruester
Feb 17, 20202 min read
Investment Risk Guide - Part 6: Gamma
The thing about gamma, is that it is very different to all the other categories of risk. Here, we want to take high risk, we want to...
Christian Armbruester
Feb 13, 20203 min read
Investment Risk Guide - Part 6: Gamma
The thing about gamma, is that it is very different to all the other categories of risk. Here, we want to take high risk, we want to...
Christian Armbruester
Feb 13, 20203 min read
Investment Risk Guide - Part 5: Alpha
Remember beta? Well alpha, is something entirely different. Instead of buy, hold, and hope for prices to go up, what we are trying to do...
Christian Armbruester
Feb 13, 20203 min read
Investment Risk Guide - Part 5: Alpha
Remember beta? Well alpha, is something entirely different. Instead of buy, hold, and hope for prices to go up, what we are trying to do...
Christian Armbruester
Feb 13, 20203 min read
Investment Risk Guide - Part 4: Beta
Beta is very popular. Maybe that is because it is so easy to understand. We acquire assets at a price, and we hope that the value will...
Christian Armbruester
Feb 13, 20203 min read
Investment Risk Guide - Part 4: Beta
Beta is very popular. Maybe that is because it is so easy to understand. We acquire assets at a price, and we hope that the value will...
Christian Armbruester
Feb 13, 20203 min read
Investment Risk Guide - Part 3: Structured Credit
The term “structured” in of itself implies complexity, and there is nothing simple about coming to terms on lending arrangements...
Christian Armbruester
Feb 13, 20202 min read
Investment Risk Guide - Part 3: Structured Credit
The term “structured” in of itself implies complexity, and there is nothing simple about coming to terms on lending arrangements...
Christian Armbruester
Feb 13, 20202 min read
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