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baufinanciaphaster 👹

@bauhiniacapital

22 Nov

https://twitter.com/Biohazard3737/status/1462570959840362500

Why are so many people selling subscriptions?

Why are so many people working in finance?

The difference? One group of people works for and gets paid by a single entity. The other group gets paid by lots of people.

https://twitter.com/Biohazard3737/status/1462570959840362500

Interestingly, a fund - regular or HF - often has many customers who pay a "subscription fee" by investing in the newsletter writer's ideas.

Of course, those particular newsletter writers front-run their own newsletters by investing realtime but only releasing newsletters

once a month, at best.

Those newsletter businesses have a higher cost base so they charge more, and they also often charge performance fees - sometimes for alpha, often for beta.

But there are LOTS of subscription-based financial services out there.

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baufinanciaphaster 👹

@bauhiniacapital

17 Nov

For those following the Evergrande situation, there is one special commentator who deserves singling out.

The "former Fitch analyst" Dr Marco Metzler is the key man. He is a veritable fount of misinformation and bad analysis. And he is absolutely prolific. Today he had this out.

The "recent DMSA study" to which he refers, where he concludes that there must be massive CDS exposure to Evergrande, is today's press release.

It shows that Asian high yield bond funds held (and still hold) Evergrande bonds. Some are active, some are passive.

The first bit:

Top 10 Evergrande holding funds have lost $7bn this year. They own Evergrande which trade at 25cts on the dollar. Fitch says they are going to 5cts, therefore there is 20cts left, therefore they will lose $2bn more.

If they'd owned $10bn of EG to start 2021...

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baufinanciaphaster 👹

@bauhiniacapital

14 Nov

@therobotjames

@therobotjames For the sake of playing devil's advocate, I will take the other side of that, "for most" for a couple of reasons.

I will start with the following assumptions (which may be wrong-footed, but their mine):
a) there is no tax differential between high turnover and low turnover

@therobotjames

@therobotjames b) we are talking institutional - comms are 2-5bp, cost structure in mgmt fees is, say 15-20bp/yr
c) end investors WANT active share risk which is why they pay you the big bucks to provide active risk.

@therobotjames

@therobotjames What IS certain in this case is that
a) you are in the active mgmt business so it is CERTAIN you have inherent expectations of creating positive alpha vs benchmark. You may not succeed every week, but on average, that's your business model.
b) Moving from say 4.5bp/yr comm

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baufinanciaphaster 👹

@bauhiniacapital

14 Nov

Weirdest thing, but getting less weird as time goes on.

Just had the third kingfisher (trying to figure out what it is - there are more different kingfishers than I knew) fly inside in the past 6 weeks.

Cute little buggers.

Got the cat ALL excited.

Kingfishers are year-round, but as we approach winter, LOTS more migratory birds show up. The striated heron we had standing on a railing 1 meter outside my front door yesterday when I woke up is non-migratory but I think came when his friends started showing up 2-3wks ago.

Over the winter, we get about a half dozen types of heron/egret, some cormorants, a number of other shore birds as well as a variety of songbirds. Going to try to attract more songbirds this year. The seabirds can stay further away. Pretty, sure, but cleaning up after them? Nah.

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baufinanciaphaster 👹

@bauhiniacapital

13 Nov

https://twitter.com/macrocephalopod/status/1459525032128954369

An interesting 🧵.

The process described is commendable. The optimisation tweaks (i.e. lower turnover) are debatable.

In my experience if one has significant conviction in single name alpha and conviction in the sizing methodology, higher turnover can lead to significant value

https://twitter.com/macrocephalopod/status/1459525032128954369

add as long as one also has an understanding of the behavioral drivers of the alpha. If one has "fundamental driver" alpha, that will lead to longer horizons, and less confidence in one's ability to harvest cross-position noise. If one has confidence in non-LT fundamental driver

alpha (could be valuation, style bias, investor class bias, intracorrelation clusters, flows analysis) then alpha can be harvested over a much shorter horizon, and comms are low enough that the increase in Sharpe from changes in weighting will offset those cleanly.

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