Archive for Month: November 2023
Getting Paid To Hedge Stock Market Risk
Wouldn’t we all like to get something for nothing? Have our cake and eat it too? Especially when it comes to buying “insurance” on the stock market? As someone who specializes in the esoteric field of “Tail Risk Hedging”, I am always asked by investors whether there is a cheaper […]
The New Bond King Is… The 2-Year Treasury Note
I had the pleasure of working for over a decade for the greatest bond investor of all time – Bill Gross. Recently, with another Bill — Ackman — publicly going short the bond market and then covering the short and advertising the exploit in a tweet, many market commentators crowned […]
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