If youre on allocating to an external fund, it just kind of sits there dead in basic cash reinvestment, but isnt even matching the management fees. Its not about diversification over a day or a week, its about diversification over an entire decade. Sports has long figured this out. People assume its just like, hey, stocks go down and bonds are going to save you. The problem at the end of the day is if you look at that after inflation, its almost the same as the Great Depression, you had an over 60% drawdown in the classic portfolio after you take into account inflation. Its great to be here. When people have emailed you or talked with you about this paper and subsequent last year, this year, any consistent responses from the investor community, or whats been the general feedback? Meb: If you had to shoot one of the five in your portfolio, its like the old game like marry, mate with or murder. "Artemis Vega is a form of defensive alpha and is intended to perform best when the rest of your portfolio is at its worst," the fund's factsheet reads. Theyre selling because they need liquidity and capital is scarce in a crisis. In many ways, its actually short a straddle in some components, because youre exposed on the left side in effect. You dont really care about what something is determined an asset class, you care about what its performance is in different regimes. A disciplined approach that has a discipline of rebalancing these is whats so vital. And well release analytics on this, anyone will be able to calculate this, and its alternative to the Sharpe ratio. In the fourth quarter, equities and then CTAs theyre doing really well. So, in those environments, these classic portfolios just dont work. We had a huge equity boom, which was really a fiat devaluation. Well, today, wed have to move deep into negative territory, in Europe even more so, to get that same convexity exposure on bonds. And that would be an environment like, lets imagine, hypothetically, Im trying to poke holes in my own theories here. Sponsor Message: Todays episode is sponsored by AcreTrader. LIMIT THE USE OF MY SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION, Name(s) of Parter, Manager, Trustee, or Director. And then the latter part of the year, the continuation of the gains from equities, and the gains in trend following commodities actually produced gains in the portfolio. I would think that if you had 100 years of records for short biased hedge funds, which dont, but I would theorize that that would rank higher on that wins above replacement portfolio metrics. Why are people so under-allocated to these? Chris Cole of Artemis Capital Management is the latest stellar guest to grace The End Game as he takes Bill and Grant on an extraordinary journey through the many ways in which volatility affects risk assets. WebArtemis Capital Management, LP info@artemiscm.com. And its important to understand exactly how anomalous that is. Weve already talked about your new pieces. But the main criticism I have of the Sharpe ratio is the way that our industry knowingly misuse it, which is, you try to find a fund that has a one or a two-year track record, or often backtests and say Sharpe ratio four, here we go, and dont even get me started on the interval funds that price their portfolio, like once a quarter or once a year, and theyll be like, hey, we have a volatility of four, and were investing in private equity or real estate or something. Its something like the diary, the depression or something along those lines that is talking about it through the lens of a journal in real-time, and my God, what a different world and conclusions you would come to than someone who lived in this post-war period. Meb: The private equity you touch on is near and dear to my heart, because, you know, you chat with a lot of institutions, and its universally seen. We give you the access and tools to invest like a Wall Street money manager at a Main Street price. Taken together, capacity constraints and uncertainty from the And that more than pays for any negative lead during these other periods. Meb: They just hit 100-year anniversary this past week. For the first time in years, hedge funds have been given the chance to prove that they do what they say they do hedge the market. And its incredibly difficult to do something outside the norm. I sat down pre-COVID and devoured that one as well. Weve held true to our legacy long vol roots. So, I always say this, well still have our bread and butter in long volatility. But the unable are really the average retail investor because it is absolutely crazy to me. Someone naively looking at XIV would say, Okay, well, maybe I can add that to my S&P and Ill have a better portfolio. And then if you did that, if you added XIV to the S&P, youd be like, Oh, wow. So, that was the guy who was creating havoc on the perimeter. And the proof is in the pudding. Webartemis capital management returns Get a ticket soon to ensure you can attend. So, were going to wrap it where its half managed futures and half equity and call it something else. And so this concept of whether an advisor does it, whether Artemis does it, whether its an actual fund that puts the two together, the hard part for an individual and many professionals too, is they still look at like the line item and they see one thing could be long vol, could be trend, who knows, thats like consistently red, whatever the runway is, maybe its a year, maybe its two, but even large asset classes that were yesterdays darling, emerging markets, my God, no one could get enough emerging markets in the 2000 to 2007 period. Chris: Thanks, Meb. You just take it online, it takes 10 minutes, right? Meb: Awesome, my friend. Chris: Its great to be back. Anything else youre thinking about? And the structure of markets, I think is particularly fragile. So, there is a correlation dynamic there as there is with any portfolio, but I think its a much better diversified portfolio. Then you put out another one, which probably was, even more encompassing called the 100-year portfolio. So, the second big issue So, bonds of the zero bound dont really work as diversifiers in deflation, I mean, a 60/40 portfolio would have had drawdowns of close to 70% or 80% in the period of the Great Depression. And even if people move off zero, its like a couple percent. Meb: The good news is, at least, maybe I have a small subset, I mean, from this audience. And we are entering a period of secular decline in some capacity, the framework where, I dont know if its going to be stagflation. So, it may look like wed want to shoot the bonds in this environment, but maybe when all of this, we get to kind of wear out of the stimulus and people The full scope of the unemployment problems and the fact that people solvency problems comes to light, maybe we get a sharp left turn back to deflation and then, all of a sudden, you end up getting some solid performance out of the bond portfolio. So, every single day, the equity market is down two, three basis points without fail.
Chris: It does. How do I update this listing? unit 4 Risk parity that oftentimes leverages the bonds, has the exact same problem. How does a 60/40 portfolio perform? Well, if you go back and you test that strategy, through the Great Depression, it was absolutely a disaster, because what ended up happening, and this is also true with the 70s, as well, it was a disaster in the 70s as well, because what was happening is, in effect, you had these big declines in markets. For more information, visit cambriainvestments.com. SEC / JURISDICTION. Well, $1 at the bottom of a market after a crash is worth way more than $1 at the top. And their conclusion is simply to add more stocks through essentially private equity as their savior and they say, okay, I get U.S. 60/40 is going to have low returns, so my savior, my solution is to add more stocks through private equity. You know, its funny, you mentioned that part about the environment we grew up in because its such a massively imprinting factor on how we all view the world. If its negative, its hurting your portfolio. That could be tolerance based, you know, something declines 20%, whatever, doesnt matter. So, like Q1 last year, youre like, thank God I have the long volatility and the bonds and gold. If youre investing in a private equity fund, along with your home, along with an average hedge fund, actually, youre just correlated to equity baiting correlated to the market cycle, everything turns out at the same time. It aims to achieve a positive return over a rolling three-year period, after fees, notwithstanding WebArtemis Capital Management L.P. is an investment management and research firm that employs quantitative and behavioral based trading models to generate returns from market volatility. Its like, you never know if theyre going to show up and play good or terrible. We recently had the founder of the company, Carter Malloy back on the podcast for a second time in Episode 312. Well, one of things I tested is I actually looked at a buy the dip strategy, going back 100 years, we went bankrupt three times, employing that strategy in a kind of systematic way. All investments have risks. But most If I had to talk to the average advisor, and Im going down this list, long vol, gold, CTA, systematic, merger, maybe no one has any of those that I ever talk to. And those market regimes are incredibly important. REGISTRATION STATUS. Diversification by market regime is what creates a steady growth cycle. I think thats particularly interesting. What you actually care about is if you add that player to your team, will that help your team win? Other hedge funds that have done well in the choppy markets include macro shops like Brevan Howard and Kirkoswald, short-sellers like Odey and Horseman, and new commodity fund Quantix Commodities. And its like one person doesnt have unilateral power. Today we have an awesome show with you, with the founder of Artemis Capital. WebArtemis Capital Management is a New Jersey-based multi-strategy multi-manager investment firm. I dont see a world where this would happen. But most of asset management is looking in the rearview mirror, either emotionally, or literally in the case of some of these strategies. The unwilling and the unable. Whats on the frontal lobe? So, you can imagine that if youre doing like a covered call overwriting strategy, youre realizing all these losses on the way down, and then youre selling offside. Please, enjoy this episode with Artemis Capital Managements Chris Cole. Its humorous, right? Absolutely. But listeners, if we dont get deep into dragon or parts of this, we can do that. Is that more likely to happen than what most the average portfolio is? Artemis Capital Management (ACM) is a Texas-based hedge fund manager founded in February 2009 by Christopher Cole. A lot of asset classes, like, you look at something like private equity actually takes liquidity away, you dont have the ability to rebalance. Whats up my friends? Unfortunately, Im also on Twitter. My grandparents generation talked about a totally different mindset, which was children of the depression, living through a totally different environment. But even a great product, a job with your products that are actually broadening and making some of these strategies available to people to some degree.
And thats so important.
Theres one environment, its never happened historically, theres no proxy for this. A hawk represents a period of secular change. So, systemic risk, and youre walking through looking back in history Keep going. Meb: Q1, theoretically, could have been the runway because bonds terrible starting point, stocks terrible starting point, gold, like you could just Gold, who knows with gold, and the commodity could just be off on the wrong foot at the beginning of it. The founder of Artemis Capital walks us through his theory of creating an investment portfolio that can outperform through big changes in markets. As more and more of the flows have been pushed into that, why do you think that these three strategy buckets, so gold, precious metals, potentially crypto, Im saying the three diversifiers to traditional stocks and fixed income, the three that people are highly under-allocated to? Its funny because we did this trading simulation years ago when I was a analyst, when I was coming into the analyst training program, they started out and gave us all It was like this fast trading simulator, youre supposed to trade it and pretend to be a trader, which is kind of an absurd exercise.