Mutiny Investing Podcast

In this episode, I sat down to talk with Jason about the market events of March 2020. We start by talking about why many narratives around the market crash may be wrong and the evidence that what we have seen so far is maybe not a harbinger of a crashing economy but rather an institutional liquidity crisis. We then talk through some historical analogies to give investors a basis for thinking about...

In this episode, we talk with Jeff Malec. Jeff is a principal at RCM Alternatives, a leading firm in the futures industry.   Jeff began his career in the Chicago futures pits with burly traders spitting into their dip cups and has had a front-row seat to watching the futures industry develop rapidly over the past two decades.   We talk about the differences between the New York traditional equity-...

Alex Orus is a principal at Principalium Capital based in Zurich, Switzerland. Alex is one of the most experienced traders of the volatility index, often called the VIX, having founded Blue Diamond Capital which traded the VIX starting in 2010.   In this conversation, we talk about risk and how many investors measure risk in a way that actually increases their risk. We then dive into the history a...

In this episode, we talk with Bastian Bolesta, CEO of Deep Field Capital, a systematic long volatility manager based in Switzerland.    We start off by talking about the difference between systematic and discretionary trading styles and why systematic may make more sense if you live in what Bastian calls Chaotistan instead of Normalstan.    We then dive into the difference between Momentum and Tre...

Tom O'Donnell is a principal and a managing direction at 3D Capital Management. Tom began his career at the Virginia Retirement System where he pioneered the use of alternative investments to mitigate portfolio risks. Since then, Tom's 30-year career has been devoted to reminding investors that markets move in two directions: up and down. Tom has been finding and using alternative investment strat...

In this episode, we chat with Hari Krishnan of Doherty Advisors. Hari is a volatility macro-focused hedge fund manager and the author of The Second Leg Down, a look at practical approaches to profiting after a market shock. We start the conversation with Hari by talking about the academic theory that suggests hedging is not a good long-term strategy and how his experience of the practice differs f...

In this episode, we chat with Chris Cole, founder and chief investment officer at Artemis Capital Management. Chris is an expert in long volatility strategies and has a knack for coming up with analogies to explain them. We talk about why Dennis Rodman is arguably one of the best basketball players of all time despite scoring less than eleven points per game and what investors and individuals can...

In this episode we chat with Wayne Himelsein, president and chief investment officer at Logica Capital. Wayne has spent over two decades managing long/short portfolios and so brings a wealth of experience to the conversation.   We talk with Wayne about a concept called negative skew and how it leads many investors to underestimate the risk in their portfolio (as well as what investors can do to pr...

In this episode, we flip the script and have our good friend Jeff Malec interview Jason and myself.   We start by talking about our backgrounds, mine in marketing cat furniture and Jason's in selling Turkish rugs among other things and walk through how those led us to look for solutions to protect our own portfolios.   We dive into the portfolio construction philosophy underlying the Mutiny invest...

This podcast is an open-ended exploration of topics relating to growing and preserving your wealth including investing, markets, decision making under opacity, risk, volatility, and complexity. Mutiny Fund is a multi-strategy long volatility fund designed to give retail investors a way to insure their portfolios against volatility, tail risk, and black swan events. This is the fourth episode of a...

This podcast is an open-ended exploration of topics relating to growing and preserving your wealth including investing, markets, decision making under opacity, risk, volatility, and complexity. Mutiny Fund is a multi-strategy long volatility fund designed to give retail investors a way to insure their portfolios against volatility, tail risk, and black swan events. This is the third episode of a f...

This podcast is an open-ended exploration of topics relating to growing and preserving your wealth including investing, markets, decision making under opacity, risk, volatility, and complexity. Mutiny Fund is a multi-strategy long volatility fund designed to give retail investors a way to insure their portfolios against volatility, tail risk, and black swan events. This is the second episode of a...

This podcast is an open-ended exploration of topics relating to growing and preserving your wealth including investing, markets, decision making under opacity, risk, volatility, and complexity. Mutiny Fund is a multi-strategy long volatility fund designed to give retail investors a way to insure their portfolios against volatility, tail risk, and black swan events. This episode is the first in a f...