Daruis Dale is the Founder and CEO of 42 Macro, an investment research firm that aims to disrupt the financial services industry by democratizing institutional macro-grade risk management frameworks and processes. Prior to founding 42 Macro, Darius was a Managing Director and partner at Hedgeye Risk Management, an independent investment research firm based in Stamford CT. He joined us for jam-packed and timely conversation that included topics such as:

Positioning for inflation volatility and the “Midas Touch”
The Fed and accelerating the taper
The Dynamics of the recent “Friday Smackdown”
The missing “Guardians of the Gate”
The implications for bonds
Cyclical changes and secular regimes
Declaring regimes and pricing them in
Portfolio construction and conditional probability
Why you don’t get paid for being too early
Frontrunning pricing with intuition and expectations
The Style Factor and why it’s the best predictor
Back-testing regime ensembles
Covariance ranking, layering and beta ranking in portfolio construction
Selecting and weighting macro indicators
Behavioral Economics and why being different is important
The impact of Bitcoin on portfolios
The effects of expensive markets relative to inflation
Policy mistakes and corrections

Thank you for watching and listening. See you next week.

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