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Insightful interviews and discussions with leading portfolio managers, investors and entrepreneurs from the world of alternative investments.
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A 30 plus year veteran in the futures commodities trading arena, and Co-Founder of CTG, Nell tells us about the industry and opportunities of trading commodities in the futures markets. With retail and institutional traders/investors, typically thru Commodity Trading Advisors (CTA’s), this is a less well known portion of the trading industry, and focuses on…
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Why & How to Invest in Gold and Precious Metals – Sprott Asset Management – w/Ed Coyne
Listen to Ed Coyne,, Senior Managing Director, for Sprott., who started his career as an Architect, educated at the Univ of Missouri, and switched to asset management over 30 years ago. Sprott manages over $17 Billion, and focuses on Precious Metals and Real Assets, in variety of formats. He discusses the reasons to own Precious…
Stock Traders Almanac 2021 – w/Jeffrey Hirsch, Editor and Publisher
“Sell in May and Go Away” – We’ve all heard it, but does it work? Is it a long term strategy, or has it worked better or worse over the past 10 years? How has it worked on the NASDAQ 100? Has a simple Technical Indicator enhanced or lessened the return? The STA has long…
Tailored Portfolio Outcomes thru Options – Simplify.us – w/Paul Kim, CFA
After a distinguished career @ PIMCO and the Principal, establishing ETF’s, Paul co-founded Simplify to create for Advisors Options based strategies that defined the potential outcomes upfront thru Options. Listen to how Simplify.us creates these strategies and how they can be used by Advisors. We hope you enjoy it.
“Exotic Alternative Investments” – Dr. Kevin Mirabile
Dr. MIrabile, a professor of finance @ Fordham University, tells us about his recent book, “Exotic Alternative Investments” and it is fascinating. Taking the subject well beyond the usual “Liquid Alts” he delves into far less known categories of “Alternative Investments’ and discusses their strengths, weaknesses and the pros and cons of over 20 different…
Mortgage Note Investing – Bequest Funds w/Martin Saenz
Martin founded Bequest Funds in 2012 and tells us how he creates better than market cash flow returns for their investors by purchasing performing mortgages at a discount on residences t/o the country from banks and hedge funds and working w/the borrowers to work thru any past issues, keep them in their home, while creating…
Tactical Investing thru Index Funds – Blue Print Inv. Partners – w/Jon Robinson
Listen to Jon Robinson, co-founder and CEO, who reveals his unique way of landing his first job following college (w/Bear Stearns no less). He eventually helped established Blue Print, which provides both tactical investing services w/Index Funds, plus practice management services for Advisors. His, and Blue Print’s, approach is based on the “Behavior” of the…
Investing in Opportunity Zones – Nest Opportunity Fund – w/ Clint Edgington
Clint Edgington, CFA, Founder and Principal of Beacon Hill Advisors and creators of the NEST Opportunity Fund, investing in real estate development in Opportunity Zones in Columbus, OH and Lexington, KY, focused on Multi-Family and Single Family development projects. Clint describes the potential capital gain tax benefits of Opportunity Zones and the compelling opportunities of…
Structured Outcome Investing – True Shares ETF’s – w/Mike Loukas
With the U.S. Equities in a significantly rising market many investors feel caught between the fear of missing out but recognizing that asset prices may well be over extended and see the probability that a major pull back or even correction could occur at any time. It is a challenging situation. True Shares has created…
Structured Outcome Investing – True Shares ETF’s – w/Mike Loukas
With the U.S. Equities in a significantly rising market many investors feel caught between the fear of missing out but recognizing that asset prices may well be over extended and see the probability that a major pull back or even correction could occur at any time. It is a challenging situation. True Shares has created…
The Current & Future Economy – w/Dr. Bob Dieli of the “No Spin Forecast”
After 7 months of lockdown there is wide disparity of opinion on the economy, stock market, expected future movement, etc. A longtime friend and favorite of our show, Dr. Bob Dieli, PhD in Economics and former top economic advisor to several banks and institutions, provides his take on what has happened, is happening and is…
The Current & Future Economy – w/Dr. Bob Dieli of the “No Spin Forecast”
After 7 months of lockdown there is wide disparity of opinion on the economy, stock market, expected future movement, etc. A longtime friend and favorite of our show, Dr. Bob Dieli, PhD in Economics and former top economic advisor to several banks and institutions, provides his take on what has happened, is happening and is…
Credit Investing – Verdad Capital – w/Greg Obenshain
The credit markets receive far less attention than they should in the marketplace, given the amount of money that is invested there. With a strong background in Private Equity, Verdad has conducted a significant amount of research into what has made Private Equity so successful as an investment strategy, and have found much of the…
An Economist’s View of the Markets – w/Dr. Mira Farka
Ever effervescent and lively, Dr. Mira is an Economist raised behind the Iron Curtain in a Communist country, now a Columbia University trained PhD in Economics and accomplished speaker and presenter t/o So. Calif on the economy, and Co-Director of the Woods Center for Economic Analysis and Forecasting @ Cal State Fullerton, Dr. Mira shares…
Private Asset Management – Harloff Capital Management – w/Gary Harloff
Gary, a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering, spent decades in this field, including time w/NASA. In 1994 he started Harloff Capital to create investment strategies and manage assets. His focus is on market selection and rotation, not individual stocks. Listen to his views of how to select those markets he believes are the most likely to…
Sector Rotation Strategy – State Street Global Advs’rs – w/ Michael Arone
Listen to Michael, the Chief Investment Strategist for SSGA, which is the 3rd largest money manager in the world, w/ over $3 Trillion in Assets Under Management and the founders of the SPY ETF in 1993, the S&P 500 Index ETF, the first ETF and the largest traded security in the country. Michael discusses his…
Tax Efficient & Socially Responsible Investing – Advisor Partners – w/Rahul Agrawal
Started by Dr. Andrew Rudd, former Professor of Finance @ Cornell Univ, Advisor Partners focuses on providing niche services in tax efficient investing and SRI, all with advanced technologies and proficiency in these areas. They perform tax harvest strategies as well as SRI investment selection tailored to the specific portfolio and goals of each client. …
Qualified Opportunity Zones – The Galena Fund – w/Dan Fullmer
Passed in 2017, as part of the tax reform act, Qualified Opportunity Zones present a unique opportunity to achieve partial Capital Gains Tax relief by re-investing gains into geographical areas that are typically less attractive to development projects. Listen to Dan Fullmer, Chief Investment Officer, to understand this new opportunity. Focusing on the Intermountain West’s…
2020 Economic Forecast – No Spin Forecast – w/Dr. Bob Dieli
Always to be counted on for applicable data, reliable forecasts and lots of opinions, Dr. Bob Dieli, PhD out of U. of Texas, publisher of his newsletter, No Spin Forecast, answers our questions re: the economy. It is always interesting to hear his views, comments and thoughts, which are definitely needed at this time. Sit…
Investing in Gold & Precious Metals – APMEX & OneGold- w/Ken Lewis
APMEX, the American Precious Metals Exchange, is twenty years old, does about $1 Billion in revenue yearly, w/over 200 employees, offers about 20,000 products in the precious metals space and is the dominant precious metals physical dealer in the country. Ken discusses the importance of having a portion of one’s portfolio in precious metals as…
Market and Stock Selection – Weiss Ratings – w/Mike Larson
Mike is the Senior Analyst @ Weiss Ratings and Editor of the “Safe Money Report,” the flagship publication of Weiss Ratings. He’s been making market and stock recommendations w/Weiss since 2003- In other words, he’s a brave man. Using fundamental and cyclical analysis in his evaluations, he uses their database of filters in their quantitatively…
Web-Based Subscriber & Investment Mgr Service – TimerTrac.com – w/Dave Garrett
Dave is the founder and owner of TimerTrac.com. They offer a website to subscribers/ investors/advisors that offers asset managers and their strategies, provides a description of their investment strategy and gives their performance record. TimerTrac can calculate the performance for as long as the asset manager has been w/TimerTrac. This is a distinct advantage for…
Tactical Credit Strategy – Shelton Capital Management – w/Guy Benstead
Guy is the Portfolio Manager of Shelton’s Tactical Credit Fund, and seeks to create Alpha thru active management of credit positions. With interest rates at super lows, and $15 Trillion in negative interest rates, to create profits in the credit marketplace has become exceptionally challenging. Guy discusses Shelton’s strategy, resulting from his thirty plus years…
Long/Short Strategy Investing – Invenomic Capital Management – w/Ali Motamed, CFA
Ali, a Harvard MBA, has been managing Long/Short strategies for over 17 years, and was awarded the Portfolio Manager of the Year in the Alternatives Category by Morningstar in 2014, and started Invenomic in 2016. Long/Short strategies can be a productive surrogate for fixed income investments in today’s low yield environment. To understand Long/Short strategies…
RITA Conference- 29 & 30 Oct, San Antonio, TX
The Fall Conference of RITA is coming soon, and those interested can receive info on it thru this promotional podcast. Trust companies, Investment Advisors and investors comprise the majority of the attendees are encouraged to attend.