Karen Arieli joins Tradestreaming as new vice president of global business development
Investing in litigation finance — with LexShares’ Jay Greenberg
LexShares, a new investing platform co-founded by Jay Greenberg, allows individuals to invest in litigation.
Known as ‘litigation finance’, this form of investing hasn’t been available to a wide investor base but returns have been as high as 50%. Jay talks to Zack Miller, Tradestreaming’s host, about the origin of litigation finance and how investors can now use LexShares to get access to a very exciting asset class.
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About Jay Greenberg
Jay is the co-founder and CEO of LexShares.
Resources mentioned in the podcast
- LexShares (Jay’s company)
- Offline competitors investing in legal claims: Juridica Investments
- Investing in Justice: An Introduction to Legal Finance, Lawsuit Advances and Litigation Funding
— written by LexShares’ co-founder, Max Volsky and recommended by Jay as the go-to resource @ the legal finance industry
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Investing in students — with Pave’s Oren Bass
What do you get when you put the college debt problem together with crowdfunding?
An entirely new investable asset, that’s what.
Oren Bass, co-founder of Pave.com, joins be to talk about how crowdfunding has created an entirely new type of investment: people. Instead of shouldering hundreds of thousands of dollars of student debt early in their career, some forward-looking students have turned to Pave to raise money via a human-capital contract.
It’s this contract investors can invest in, providing them with a socially-responsible activity along with a return on their money.
This isn’t passive indexing. Let’s dive in and learn more.
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More resources
- Pave.com (Oren’s website)
- The investment case for investing in Income-linked Payment Agreements (Pave)
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Tradestreaming Hedge Fund Guru Portfolio continues to outperform
Well, my Tradestreaming Hedge Fund rebalanced last week. The portfolio (access details here) is up almost 20% YTD, handily beating the S&P500 which is up a bit over 12% on the year.
I sold $MIC and $PCLN, two stocks that I’ve owned for the bulk of 2012. $MIC was a big winner and $PCLN had been as well, until it gave back much of its gains in August.
So far in 2012, I’ve made 17 trades. The portfolio is based upon the research I published in Tradestream Your Way to Profits and mimics certain strategies of 12 top hedge fund managers. It’s not as simple as merely aping top hedge funds’ trading — certain hedge funds replicate differently than others.
For example, investors may begin to approximate Warren Buffett’s returns by buying his largest holding while Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman may replicate best by buying his newest holding.
Anyway, couple more details about the Tradestreaming Hedge Fund Guru Portfolio
- 70.6% of trades profitable
- 0.622 correlation with S&P500
- Sharpe Ratio of 1.743
For more details, check out my strategy on Collective2
Making everyone an investor in rarities – with Susan Carpenter
Investing in fine art, collectible autos, and musical instruments used to be just a pipe dream for your average investor.
But with the need to get uncorrelated diversification and a hot rarity market, retail investors haven’t given up. And now, Liquid Rarity Exchange has found a way to securitize rarities so that the other 99% of us can invest in them.
With technology and patented-processes, LRE can take real assets and make stocks, mutual funds, ETFs, or derivatives out of them. LRE’s COO, Susan Carpenter joins me on Tradestreaming Radio to discuss the market for collectibles, her firm’s process and technology and where rarity investing is headed.
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About Susan Carpenter
Susan is the COO of the Liquid Rarity Exchange.
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Build trading strategies without the need to code – with Rob Johnson
Have you wanted to test an investing strategy but lack the tools and programming knowledge to sufficiently see if it works?
QuantBlocks was designed for you — build and test trading strategies without programming knowledge. It’s drag-and-drop simple. Founder Rob Johnson joins Tradestreaming Radio to discuss how QuantBlocks scratched his own personal itch and how investors of all types use his technology to beat the market.
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June 2012 Update: Tradestreaming Hedge Fund Guru Portfolio
After a really hard May, which saw the portfolio down 5.1%, my Hedge Fund Guru Portfolio had a strong June, rising 7.7%, beating the S&P which rose about 6.5%.
The portfolio, which is a composite of all-star hedge fund picks from some of the most profitable investors around, rebalances quarterly. This was an off-month, so there were no buys or sells.
Learn more
You can read more about my strategy and sign up to track/autotrade it on Collective2.
I develop my ideas for optimizing hedge fund replication strategies in my book Tradestream and I use AlphaClone technology to run my strategy.
May 2012 Update: Tradestreaming Hedge Fund Guru Portfolio
May was brutal. The S&P500 closed down over 6.27% and the Russell 2000 closed down 6.55%.
Tradestreaming Portfolio Performance
The Tradestreaming Hedge Fund Guru Portfolio closed down 5.1%. Beat the indices OK but still down. Not great.
The portfolio, which is a composite of all-star hedge fund picks from some of the most profitable investors around, rebalances quarterly.
Sales, Buys
We sold News Corp ($NWSA) down 1.4% and CVR Energy (CVI) down 2.5%. The portfolio added one name this quarter as many of the fund managers in the algorithm stuck with their leading ideas.
Real money portfolios are up 35.9% YTD in 2012.
Learn more
You can read more about my strategy and sign up to track/autotrade it on Collective2.
I develop my ideas for optimizing hedge fund replication strategies in my book Tradestream and I use AlphaClone technology to run my strategy.
Creating valuable mashups of investment research – with James Berman
Professor James Berman has taken a new investing research platform (Trefis) and made it even more valuable.
His new investment advisory newsletter, the Berman Value Folio, integrates interactive modeling tools to create what I think is one of the first mashups of next generation investment research.
James is our guest this week on Tradestreaming Radio to talk about the investment research process, the next generation of research tools (including Trefis), and how he’s created his investment product.
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Creating a popular investment strategy marketplace – with Matthew Klein
Today’s Internet means unprecedented accessibility and transparency for investors — a huge opportunity to learn from and invest like some of the smartest and most talented investors.
One place this is clearly manifested is at Collective2.com, a marketplace of trading strategies. Whether you’re a publisher or a consumer, a writer or reader — investors can find thousands of investing systems on the site.
Not only can you follow some of these unknown Buffetts, you can also auto-trade them (program your brokerage account to replicate their every move).
Collective2.com‘s founder, Matthew Klein joins me on this episode of Tradestreaming Radio to discuss the foundation of the site and how some investors are getting rich by following some of the best trading models on the site — while the publishers of those models also make real bank.
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