Remove 2012 Remove Financial Services Remove Portfolio Remove Risk Management
article thumbnail

Crypto – just a rock, or a good investment? (debate got wild)

Sara Grillo

” -Scott Salaske Salaske says that it would be have to have a growth driver or utility, or else it would be like picking up a rock and putting it into your portfolio. A few years later Scott merged Quest with another local investment advisory firm, Portfolio Solutions, that shared the same investment principles at that time.

article thumbnail

Fear Not

The Better Letter

As Morgan Housel has cautioned : “The business model of the majority of financial services companies relies on exploiting the fears, emotions, and lack of intelligence of customers. 2011 : “[T]he expected return/risk profile of the stock market has shifted to hard-negative.” percent), HSGFX did worse (1.64

Assets 104
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Transcript: Joe Barratta of Blackstone

The Big Picture

Even when you read that announcement from — that was 2012 — RITHOLTZ: 2012. BARATTA: — we’re probably three times the size as we were in 2012. You saw it in the financial services sector. In 2006, ’07, ’08, you saw the financial crisis. BARATTA: — I mean, as much as we could.

Assets 154
article thumbnail

Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

That’s a really easy portfolio to create. It allows you to understand, generally speaking, what is a reasonable beta for that whole portfolio. The other thing it allows you to do is to benchmark your ability to select managers that outperform both in each areas and across the sleeve. That allows you to do two things.