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Exceptional & Rich ® BSE 40 India Simulations
AlphaBlock’s “open indexing” is a systematic, scientific, and replicable method, which is based on a mathematical innovation [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] that allows for the construction of smart beta portfolios that are less concentrated, recover faster after a market fall and improve on the limitations of the current indexing methods [11][12][13]. The Exceptional & Rich [E&R] Indices Sandbox…
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The S&P 500 Myth
Abstract The nearly USD 50 trillion passive investment management industry has grown over the last 50 years primarily based on the claim that 9 out of 10 Asset managers can’t beat the market, net of fees over a 5-year rolling period. This claim assumes that the S&P 500 has a superior methodology that is unassailable.…
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Atlas of AI
Kate Crawford’s “Atlas of AI” is a masterwork in technological thinking. Rarely do I find a thinking alignment regarding the brain model as a narrow definition of intelligence [Human AI]. However, this is the first time, I have seen someone reflecting on media as a geological process, which indirectly questions the foundational assumption about information…
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Canadian 60 Recovery!
Now that the Canadian Benchmark S&P TSX 60 had its worst week since the March 2020 pandemic crash, you may wonder about its recovery. The Science of recovery is tied to the design of the benchmark. The current benchmarks including the S&P TSX 60 is poorly designed, creates concentration risk and hence takes longer to…
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Web3 Alts
We are in an Alternative Assets revolution. Crypto might be the most popular of the Web3 liquid alternatives [Alts] but as disintermediation picks up momentum, the new internet will lead to wealth redistribution by first taking away market share from the legacy world and then generating new opportunities in form of data assets that will…
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S&P 500 Recovery
The S&P 500 methodology, the industry benchmark which measures the performance for 9 out of 10 asset managers is flawed because it is concentrated, has no anticipation, has been built on hit and trial and has long recovery periods. S&P 500 Methodology leads to longer recoveries because of the concentration risk. When you give 6…
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Nowhere To Hide
I was asked by an Advisor friend, what to do with the portfolios. My first response was not to book losses. Knowing that portfolios were mauled, there was limited salvage value. The conversation continued and I told him there are always opportunities to invest, be it Agricultural Commodity ETFs, frontier markets, and/or some emerging markets.…
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How To Cash?
The $100 trillion managed globally as your pension and active investments is primarily discretionary. The human does the job. But the future is about machines managing your pension and investments because humans have a poor track record. Machines have a lot of problems to solve, starting from bias to teaching investors how and why to…
