ABOUT
High Quality Investment Analysis.
Our contributors are professional money managers and investors, with experience in institutional money management, trading, venture capital, HNW advisory and entrepreneurship. We are not "newsletter publishers", or journalists writing for an investing blog.
Intellectually Sound, Not PC.
Our content is about investing in a world increasingly affected by geo-politics and capital flows. We point out irrational government policy, social movements and the madness of crowds, and equip our readers with unfiltered analysis, regardless of how controversial it may be.
Theme Based.
Our articles usually stem from our individual investment research. Currently these are energy, interest rates, commodities, the USD, shipping, offshore, cryptocurrency and the Eurozone to name a few. You can choose the sort of content you want, or get it all.
Skin In The Game.
Our contributors all participate with their own capital in what they are covering and make their money investing. Some of them welcome subscribers who get their research, others run investment funds, which at times they will offer exclusively to our readers.
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CONTRIBUTERS
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Chris MacIntosh
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Chris has founded and built several multi-million dollar businesses in the investment arena including overseeing the deployment of over $30m into Venture Capital opportunities and advising family offices internationally. Prior to this, Chris built a career at Invesco Asset Management, Lehman Brothers, JPMChase, & Robert Flemings.
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Jamie Keech
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Jamie is a Vancouver based financier with a background in mining engineering. Having worked on mining projects across the world, he is focused on providing catalytic capital to high quality teams in the mining and natural resources sector, which he believes is on the cusp of reversing its multi-year trend of being an unloved market.
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Bradley McFadden
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After managing high net worth private client funds at Henry Ansbacher, Brad managed a proprietary trading book for Rand Merchant Bank in South Africa & Australia. Brad’s speciality is in identifying opportunities in extreme out of favour themes globally and executing strategies to achieve asymmetric payoffs.
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Harris "Kuppy" Kupperman
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Kuppy (Harris Kupperman) is the founder of hedge fund Praetorian Capital, which in its first 5 years saw every dollar invested on day one be worth over $26 before fees. Kuppy later founded Mongolia Growth Group, a company focused on strategic investments in this exciting economy, and recently re-opened his investment fund focused on macro opportunities globally.
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INVESTMENT THEMES
NATURAL RESOURCES
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Capital investment into the resource industry has been falling since 2012, nearly a decade and the supply deficit some few years hence is looming. Given the rising trend of resource nationalism, the industry will have to play catch up, and we're ahead of the curve.
ENERGY
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Fossil fuels are a dirty word, though we can't think of another sector so primed to make a comeback. We are in addition pursuing other opportunities in energy, all of which have the promise of truly asymmetric returns.
THE US DOLLAR
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The 2007/8 financial crisis saw unprecedented lowering of interest rates coinciding with trillions of dollars in USD borrowing. As the political landscape shifts causing volatility in currency markets and divergent interest rate policies, we are positioning for USD to run.
JAPAN
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We believe the tail risk to Japan experiencing a currency crisis is underpriced and should they have one the Japanese equity markets (long shunned) will reprice violently upward. Fortunately Japanese equities are some of the cheapest in the world.
SHIPPING
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An oversupply of container ships exacerbated by credulous credit markets brought about the inevitable. An industry that failed to meet expectations only to collapse with a deluge of bankruptcies, scrapping of vessels and reorganisations. Today few will dare tread here and as such the order books for new ship builds are terrible with many shipyards having shut their doors. Find out why we're excited.
INTEREST RATES
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At the tail end of a debt supercycle being short bonds and long rates seems like one of the most asymmetric plays for the next decade. How to execute on this is however where things are not so clear cut. We've found various means to position for this without the inherent risks that accompany the obvious choice of trading futures.
GREECE
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They've been through a crisis, the country is terribly mismanaged, corrupt and still hemmed in and constrained by the EUR which doesn't allow them to adequately manage fiscal policy. The market knows and understands this which is why it's cheap. Greece is the conduit into Europe for China via the Belt and Road (OBOR) initiative and this means that China will spend in Greece buying increasing amounts of both commercial and ultimately (wait and see) political influence.
AUSSIE HOUSING
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The lucky country has some of the highest debt to income levels in the world. Aside from historically low interest rates, the mania has also been bolstered by significant foreign buying (China), now curbed by law, and historically low interest rates. These are now swiftly changing... watch LIBOR, and banks are massively leveraged to real estate.
BITCOIN
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In a world as indebted as we have, where the risk to loss of faith in currency is higher than most realise Bitcoin provides asymmetrical upside as well as what has become THE most secure digital ledger. For a small portion of ones portfolio it provides a hedge quite unlike any other. We've been officially recommending since 2014.
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OUR SERVICES
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Invest alongside Chris MacIntosh and his team as they identify the biggest investment opportunities globally, and how best to execute on them. This is for investors of all experience and sophistication. Click here for more...
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A real-time deal flow service for accredited investors looking for private investment opportunities in energy & natural resources. Jamie Keech evaluates hundreds of private investment opportunities, and sends members the research and diligence he's performed on the ones he is personally pursuing. Click here for more...
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A managed accounts service run by Chris MacIntosh and Brad MCFadden for accredited investors who want exposure to the investment opportunities we provide, via a full managed accounts service. Click here for more...