Sri Lanka is currently faced with a debt crisis as foreign reserves plummet and prices for essential goods soar, causing hardship to its people.
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Read moreThe public story of Stefanova and Marto Capital by different investors expounds on how Marto Capital has develop market intelligence in the investors
Read moreThere are myriad elements that need to be considered when creating an investment portfolio. Risk is involved in each and every step, throughout the entire lifetime of the portfolio.
Read moreBlockchain technology has changed the way people work, communicate, shop, and even pay for goods. Companies and consumers don’t always prefer cash now.
Read moreI had the pleasure to speak with Gianni Maxemin, an experienced technology entrepreneur. He is currently the CEO of PiedParker and previously worked at Hearst Media and Google’s Launchpad. We talked about the parking industry in today's world of Covid-19 and the new forms of parking technology.
Read moreAs the rest of the world made monumental leaps in big data and technology over the last couple of decades,
Read moreNearly two-thirds (62%) of executives agree that organizations should adopt technological changes to revolutionize their investment operations. For this purpose, investment companies have employed emerging digital technologies and tools such as blockchain and cryptocurrency.
Read moreInvesting in cryptocurrency can be volatile for investors since most of them encounter a dilemma of which assets to pick up for their portfolios. By investing in different types of crypto, the investors can allocate the assets, reflecting the amount of risk and the potential gains they can attain while reaching their financial goals.
Read moreFounded as a hedge fund firm in 2015, Marto attracted investors across the globe. While writing her research papers, Katina Stefanova and the research team highlighted the importance of bitcoin in a new era of digital currencies.
Read moreInvestors will face muted returns for the next decade.
Read moreI had the pleasure to speak with Gianni Maxemin, an experienced technology entrepreneur. He is currently the CEO of PiedParker and previously worked at Hearst Media and Google’s Launchpad. We talked about the parking industry in today's world of Covid-19 and the new forms of parking technology.
Read moreTo understand what is going on with the digital assets and further explore their future, Katina Stefanova had a conversation with Mike Kessler, the CEO of Tokenise.
Read moreRisk Parity was dealt a heavy blow underperforming a more traditional 60/40 diversified portfolio allocation since January 2020. Risk parity managers claim that the strategy performs well in all major economic environments. So why is it performing so abysmally now?
Read moreBrian Cobb, whose job is to envision the future for aviation and to implement progressive, yet effective solutions, shared his perspective of the challenges airports are facing due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the investments they are making in order to make flying safe again.
Read moreAt this point we would use the extreme levels to get closer to flat risk and look for tactical opportunities to trade while biding our time on clarity of direction.
Read more2020 Bear Market is the largest since 2008. Today stocks plunged even as Central Banks stepped in. The S&P 500 shed 10% falling into Bear Market and bringing the total decline to 26% since January. The cause is twofold: market panic due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war.
Read moreIn a bear market, traditionally investors have flocked to US Treasuries which historically have been inversely correlated to equities - when stocks fall, bonds appreciate. However, in the 2020 bear market, bonds are no longer an attractive safe haven for investors.
Read moreConsistent with our view entering 2020 that risk assets were more fully priced than not, we have been advocating maintaining a risk-off portfolio principally comprising trades where we felt the cost of being wrong carried limited downside.
Read moreThere have been very few corrections during the last decade when investors could have jumped in. We believe that the uncertainty around the coronavirus scare will create short-term market volatility and further opportunities for investors to buy the dip.
Read moreConsistent with our view entering 2020 that risk assets were more fully priced than not, we have been advocating maintaining a risk-off portfolio principally comprising trades where we felt the cost of being wrong carried limited downside.
Read moreHistorically, gold’s early use cases revolved around money – a form of “medium of exchange”. After the second world war however, several countries and their respective currencies, started to shift away from the gold standard and migrated towards a fiat currency system.
Read moreThe increased probability that the coronavirus has escaped its China quarantine to become a global pandemic halted equities seemingly unstoppable rally. Yet Noah Kindler, a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur is optimistic about the global economy’s ability to adapt to the threat.
Read moreThe markets are entering 2020 on the opposite footing to where they were a year ago. In our fundamental view, asset prices are more fully priced as risk premiums are highly compressed precipitating a cautious position and an active relative value structuring and trading approach.
Read moreOne of the leading indicators foreshadowing the next recession is a break in market correlations. Correlations are inherently unstable and when economic and political uncertainty rises, using static correlation analysis is not adequate.
Read moreTechnology has formed the bedrock of the 21st century. It has reshaped our daily lives and captured our imaginations. Not surprisingly, tech has become the growth engine of equity markets. In the 1990’s, IT stocks reflected less than 10% of the S&P 500’s market capitalization.
Read moreDespite this year’s bloodbath in the crypto-asset space, the industry will likely still generate considerable investor surplus in the long-run.
Read moreBetween a potential trade war with China on the horizon, military and geopolitical conflict in Syria, and a multitude of events and uncertainty surrounding the Trump administration, investors have been wary of a potential market sell-off that hasn’t arrived.
Read moreThe impact of the trade war appears to have largely been incorporated into the pricing of certain assets. While we believe that the trade conflict with China is set to escalate before the mid-term elections in the US.
Read moreThe timing for hedge funds might have finally come. In recent years, hedge fund performance has been disappointing investors.
Read morePrevious year volatility, as measured by the standard deviation of daily market price movements in equities, bonds and other asset classes, remained at very low levels compared to historical norms.
Read moreSpectacular gains of over 3000% in 2017 followed by spectacular volatility in 2018 make this asset class stand out. On one side, digital currency libertarians and techies herald the arrival of financial freedom from the establishment
Read moreAfter an 19.4% rally last year and a head spinning 4.8 % appreciation in January, the S&P dropped by 6.2% in three days whiling the January gains.
Read moreThe combination of new technologies and shifting demographics and client needs is bringing a sea change to the asset management industry.
Read moreCurrently, one of the largest positions in our portfolio is a short in the European long-dated bonds, concentrated in German government bonds.
Read moreMarto Capital founder, CEO and CIO Katina Stefanova was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug at an early age.
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