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Listen to Jason tell about Sunrise Capital and CalAlts.  Sunrise Cap dates back to the 1970’s, one of the oldest Quant/Macro Funds in the industry, long before Hedge Funds started their ascent.  Their Sunrise Evolution strategy invests long and short across a diversified basket of assets.  They look for patterns, statistical trends and behavior, etc….

Listen to Jan Brzeski, founder and CEO of Arixa Capital discuss their unique business model for generating high yield returns thru short term bridge loans on residential and commercial projects – AND discuss the coming Real Estate Symposium at UCLA, for which Arixa Capital is the organizer for the 11th consecutive year. Listen to hear…

For the last thirty plus years  the IMCA has served the Investment Management world with education, certifications, events, etc.  Partnering with the Wharton School to offer the CIMA designation (Certified Investment Management Analyst) IMCA educates investment analysts and managers on portfolio management for institutions and individuals.  Their annual conference for 2017 will be April 30…

Eric Clark is the portfolio manager of Accuvest Alpha Brands Consumer Spending Index. This strategy is focused on three things. One, the consumer spending. Two, brand recognition. Three, stock performance. He discusses these in detail to show how this empowers the investor and makes a better investor.

Ryan Ballantyne  of Reality Shares explains their unique proprietary evaluation system, DivCon. This seeks to identify companies that are going to raise their dividend or potentially cut their dividend. DIVY doesn’t care what the market does today. It really only cares what that dividend is doing.

Listen to Jeff Johnson, Founder and CEO of Epus Energy, discuss the opportunities of investing for cash flow thru oil production by investing in existing producing wells.  In his third Start-up, Jeff explains the unique business model of Epus – They seek to purchase good assets (currently producing wells) where the owner is in a…

Michael Roomberg, Portfolio Manager of Miller Howard, discusses their unique mutual fund – “Drill Bit to Burner Tip.”  Invests in the entire North American energy chain.  It recognizes that the shale technology is a technological revolution which will create significant benefits to many ancillary companies and industries that are beneficiaries of this revolution. They look…

Bill Sherman of The Sherman Sheet, and Paul Carroll of Pinnacle Sherman Funds, discuss the two funds created by Pinnacle to follow the signals of The Sherman Sheet.  The Sherman Sheet is a publication for Advisers that provides investment research and models to use for client investment portfolios.  Built upon trend identification of markets (not…

Eric Crittendon, Chief Investment Officer of Longboard Asset Management, discusses their two funds, both focused on low correlation with stocks and bonds.  Their Long/Short strategy is based on trend following, focused on long duration trends.  This rules based strategy holds long stocks but shorts index futures, a unique approach to long/short investing.  The desired result…

iSelect Fund, a Venture Capital firm, raises funds from private investors and finds funds worthy of investment.  Investors can select those firms in which to invest or they can invest in eSelect’s evergreen fund, which chooses the next twenty funds for investment.  Carter Williams, founder and CEO with a strong background in venture capital,  seeks…

Founder and CEO of Money360, Evan Gentry discusses their unique business model of making loans secured by income producing real estate.  With hundreds of investors, and having made about $150 million in loans, they make two year bridge loans on real estate.  Investors can select the properties they can invest in, or can invest in…

Martin Bergin is president and owner of DUNN Capital, a Commodity Trading Advisor (“CTA”) firm based in Florida. In this episode of Strategic Investor Radio, Mr. Bergin and host Charley Wright discuss DUNN Capital’s history – including that of its colorful founder – as well as the firm’s trading methodology and how the futures market…

In this episode of Strategic Investor Radio, host Charley Wright interviews Jeremy DeGroot of Litman Gregory Asset Management. Mr. DeGroot is Chief Investment Officer and Principal of the firm, which provides investment research to over 4,000 advisors, institutions, and clients; as well as operating several multi-manager, sub-advised mutual funds. In this interview, Charley and DeGroot…

In this episode of Strategic Investor Radio, host Charley Wright interviews Kurt Voldeng of Commerce Asset Management. Mr. Voldeng is both the COO and the CIO of the Memphis-based firm, which specializes in hedge-fund replication strategies. The company replicates hedge-fund strategies without actually owning hedge funds or even their underlying assets. Instead, Commerce categorizes each…

In this episode of Strategic Investor Radio, host Charley Wright interviews Taylor Lukof, founder and CEO of ABR Dynamic Funds. Mr. Lukof got his investment-industry start in the early 2000s as the youngest member of the American Stock Exchange, where he was a floor specialist for equity options. This experience obviously taught Lukof to appreciate…

Dr. Ben Hunt joins host Charley Wright in this episode of Strategic Investor Radio. Dr. Hunt had a great deal of success in his life prior to stepping into the investment arena in 2003: After earning a Harvard PhD in Government, Dr. Hunt was a tenured Political Science professor at NYU and the author of two academic books….

Peter Lupoff is the founder and CIO of Tiburon Capital Management, a New York City-based event-driven strategy manager and the sub-advisor of the Balter Event-Driven Fund (BEVIX). According to Morningstar, that fund generated five-year annualized returns of 4.86% for the period ending November 30, 2016 – a whopping 193 basis points better than the category…

Lawrence Calcano is the CEO of iCaptial Network, a New York City-based firm specializing in alternative investments. In this episode of Strategic Investor Radio, Mr. Calcano explains to host Charley Wright how his firm “provides a bridge connecting two groups of people who really want to be together” – by this, he means high-net worth…

In this episode of Strategic Investor Radio, host Charley Wright sits down with Greg Rutherford, co-founder and CEO of Cavalier Funds. Cavalier operates a family of seven mutual funds each managed by sub-advisors. The fund family consists of five equity and two fixed-income funds, each of which aim to capture benchmark returns in rising markets,…

In this episode of Strategic Investor Radio, host Charley wright interviews Michael Stubben, founder and president of Phoenix-based Summit Real Estate Advisory Services. Summit produces analytical research reports, primarily for financial advisors, on mostly non-listed REITs and BDCs (business development companies). The firm covers some publically traded REITs that were previously unlisted and haven’t gained…

David Scranton is the founder and President of Sound Income Strategies, a New York-based RIA firm focused on income investing. He’s also the author of a new book: Return on Principle: 7 Core Values to Help Protect Your Money in Good Times and Bad, and the host of a Newsmax program called “The Income Generation.”…

In this episode of Strategic Investor Radio, host Charley Wright interviews Don Robinson, CEO and CIO of Philadelphia-based Palladiem. The firm offers risk-managed strategies to investors and advisors. These strategies include absolute return, global macro, multi-strategy, and endowment models. Palladiem’s name is a portmanteau of Palladio, the Italian Renaissance architect; and diem, as in “seize the…

In this episode of Strategic Investor Radio, host Charley Wright interviews Eric Lutton, Chief Investment Officer of Sound Income Strategies. Eric is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and his job as CIO of Sound Income Strategies is to generate investment income – this is particularly difficult in today’s low-yield environment, as Charley points out. With investment-grade…

Collective2.com is a website that allows everyone from professional money managers to “housewives in Mexico City” to publish their own trading systems and publically track the results. Moreover, these “trade leaders” can offer subscription alerts and even broker-synced automated trading services to paying subscribers, with the subscription revenue shared by the trade leader and Collective2….