Monthly Archives: February 2018

OUR JANUARY RESULTS

Investments

We are pleased to announce that our weighted average return in January was +2.07%. Since 2015, we have generated a net return of 40.14% with a Sharpe ratio of 1.56.

In terms of investment strategy performance, our weighted average net returns for January were (a) -0.41% for conservative strategies, (b) +0.64% for balanced strategies, and (c) +4.59% for aggressive strategies.

January was dominated by three major themes: (1) excellent returns in global equity markets, (2) US dollar weakness, and (3) a selloff in US treasuries.

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Crypto -vs- Actual Miners

Investments, , ,

We have been following the progress of mining sector securities for quite some time now (Because You Know I’m All About That Base, ‘Bout That Base, Base Metals).

The arguments supporting this trade are:
a) reduced capex and lack of investment in new mines
b) long lead times to new supply (it takes around nine years to build a new copper mine)
c) simultaneous global growth and a resulting increase in demand
d) management commitment to returning cash to shareholders

Given the hysteria around crypto currencies and the resulting incentive to ‘mine’ them, we decided to compare the market capitalizations of the largest publically traded mining companies in the world to the largest crypto currencies. The results were quite interesting: the top five crypto currencies were worth around the same amount as the seven largest publically traded miners on earth.

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