Robust Methods LLC
Executive Summary
A seasoned money manager and pioneer of Robust Portfolio Management, the firm's mission is to generate investment returns that do not expose the portfolio to significant systemic risk.
It is out opinion that systemic risk remains totally underpriced, and has dramatically increased since the 2008 collapse of the banks.
While the investment approach at Robust Methods begun as a quantitative strategy in 2005, it became imperative to revamp the strategy after the Federal Reserve started creating trillions of dollars from thin air in order to buy the markets it wants to buy, and sell those it wants to sell. The Fed basically hijacked the entire system and started setting the prices of the major financial markets. As a result, both fundamental and technical approaches to investing became practically irrelevant.
With 'QE" supposed to be a one-time exception after the 2008 crash, it has become a regular routine of market interventions and debt monetization with illicit funds - now going well into 2015.
Clearly, today's market prices do not represent the balance between supply and demand, and as the price discovery mechanism is broken; the financial markets have lost the good part of their freedom as a result of the Fed's actions.
Suppressing the markets for so long and by so much is clearly not sustainable based on historical precedents.
We now see an epic failure in the making and unfolding from here.
We are now focused at turning this inevitable outcome into major investment returns to our clients.
Our portfolio is strategically positioned to fulfill this goal.
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