Stacking Fees - The Problem With Alphas

Jeff is “stacking” two guests in this episode, welcoming 1. Corey Hoffstein, CIO and co-founder of Newfound Research, host of Flirting with Models Podcast, and co-conspirator on the Pirates of Finance YouTube channel; and 2. Rodrigo Gordillo, President and Portfolio Manager of Resolve Asset Management and host of the Resolve Riffs Friday live stream. They’re talking about their new research paper: “Return Stacking: Strategies for Overcoming a Low Return Environment,” which takes a novel approach to solving a few problems. Such as: How do you endure the ‘line item risk’ of an alternatives allocation? How do you participate in the upside of an increasingly overvalued stock market? What value do bonds bring as a diversifier at the zero bound? The answer boils down to some new capital-efficient ETFs and mutual funds, which stack asset classes and returns on top of one another at greater than 100% exposure. How does that work exactly? What are the pros and cons? What types of products can investors look at? Listen in to find out more. 

Chapters: 

00:00-02:36=Intro 

02:37-10:30=It’s the Cayman Islands…not Caymans 

10:31-29:55=Return Stacking: The Paper, the Problem & the Solution 

29:56-38:33= Leverage and Capital Efficiency 

38:34-01:04:14= Managed Futures, Macro, and Convexity as Diversifiers 

01:04:15-01:12:09= Are you just Stacking Fees? 

01:12:10-01:26:16= I’m Scared to Buy at All-Time Highs (and to Own Bonds) 

01:26:17-01:30:24=Favorites 

From the episode: 

Download the whitepaper here: https://info.rcmalternatives.com/return-stacking 

Podcast: Noodling on Ensembles, Trend, & Convexity with Newfound’s Corey Hoffstein: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/noodling-on-ensembles-trend-convexity-newfounds-corey/id1497570451?i=1000478501833 

Podcast: Asset Allocation, AI, and the Alpha Process with Resolve Asset Management: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asset-allocation-ai-alpha-process-resolve-asset-management/id1497570451?i=1000467460922 

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