35. Eric Crittenden

In this episode, I talk with Eric Crittenden, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Standpoint, an investment firm focused on bringing all-weather portfolio solutions to US investors.

Eric plays an active role in the firms' research, portfolio management, product innovation, business strategy, environments and client facing activities. He believes using an all-wealth approach is the most effective way to prepare for a wide rage of market environments, while producing meaningful investment returns with limited downside risk.

Eric has over 20 years experience researching, designing, and managing alternative asset portfolios on behalf of families, individuals, financial advisors, and other institution investors.

Eric and I talk about circuitous paths with multi-year dead-end rabbit holes, simplicity can be the ultimate sophistication, what do clients want? What's wrong with the investing industry, strategy scaling?

For people who want to understand the capital efficiency argument, this is helpful: Backtest Portfolio Asset Allocation (portfoliovisualizer.com)

• Portfolio 1 = a blend of the more popular managed futures strategies
• Portfolio 2 = 100% Portfolio 1 + 50% global equities. Equities come at the expense of T-bills
• Portfolio 3 = standpoint

Towards the end, Eric was referencing a bond video. Here's the link: https://www.standpointfunds.com/content/bond-return-simulator

I hope you enjoy this conversation with Eric as much as I did...