Month: June 2016

29 June, 2016

Marcel von Pfyffer joins Switzer TV to reveal how he intends to play the market following the Brexit vote last week.

29th June, 2016

Arminius’ global macro hedge fund recorded a modest positive return on the Brexit vote, even though we do not make bets on political events. We invest our clients’ money on the basis of quantitative statistics about the market, and our quantitative models told us in mid-May that risk in global markets was too high. Therefore we shifted 95% of our fund to the safe haven of cash, which is where it will remain until at least 01 July. As a result, we have avoided the market falls which followed the Brexit vote, and the Fund made profits on some market neutral short positions in the US equities market.

The Brexit vote has triggered a regional crisis, not a global crisis… read more

28th June, 2016

To be clear, not everyone had an uncomfortable Brexit. What is being referred to now (and no doubt in case studies at Harvard in years to come) as “Black Friday”, was in fact quite a Good Friday for investors in Arminius’ global macro hedge fund.

So how did we manage to not lose money through Brexit? By obeying our models.

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