In last month’s Update, we pondered the question “what about the 40?”. This has long been a topic of our own discussions and clearly an issue that rose to the front of many people’s minds in the mo…| Convex Strategies
“Mainstream economics is replete with ideas that “everyone knows” to be true, but that are actually arrant nonsense.” Jeremy Rudd. Federal Reserve Board. September 2021. We don’t often go looking f…| Convex Strategies
A question we often get asked, as we discuss building convexity into investment portfolios with large Pension Funds/SWFs/Insurance Companies/Endowments/Banks, is something along the lines of “How m…| Convex Strategies
“Too often, the potential range of behavior of complex systems had to be guessed from a small set of data. When a system worked normally, staying within a narrow range of parameters, engineers made…| Convex Strategies
“Do you know the secret of life? One thing. Just one thing.” Curly Washburn. City Slickers, 1991. We find this a very useful, and accepted, philosophy when it comes to risk management of any activi…| Convex Strategies
If we ever had the means and resources to launch our own academy of finance and economic higher learning, we might dub it Common Sense University and, without question, would appoint Bill White as …| Convex Strategies