The Next Big Thing: Climate Technology Twenty-five years ago, at the height of the dot com boom, while every financial services firm on Wall Street was scrambling to find the next big internet name, New American Energy Chief Investment Officer Walter Nasdeo was focused on the next big thing; climate technology. Then the Head of...
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PlusPlus: A Commitment Culture Of Harvesting Behavioral Biases In Financial Markets
PlusPlus Capital Management built a non-traditional CTA in just a few years through the study of behavioral biases and the implementation of commitment culture into the firm’s values. Both of these concepts are unique in the CTA universe, which was the reason PlusPlus was created. Kapil Rastogi, President and co-founder of PlusPlus Capital Management, says,...
Manager Spotlight: Commonwealth Bank & Trust
The 60/40 Portfolio Conundrum For 40 plus years, the traditional 60/40 portfolio has been successful as treasury yields often produced positive returns and limited risk. However, the 2008 financial crisis led to a change in the market, making the 40% of the traditional 60/40 portfolio less effective in providing returns while also providing risk-mitigating convexity...
Manager Spotlight: Volt Capital Management
Updated: Feb 26, 2021 Volt Capital Management AB is based in Stockholm, Sweden, and was founded in 2016. The four partners have extensive experience and knowledge in portfolio management and modeling fundamental and macro strategies. The partners—Dr. Patrik Safvenblad, Jukka Harju, Tommi Lindeman, and David Bergquist—combine their experience to create an institutional level company. Contrasting...