The Greatest Geometric Balancers: Renaissance Technologies, Part II

Let’s pick up where we left off earlier in our exploration of the Geometric Balancing techniques hiding inside Renaissance Technologies’ spectacular returns. For those that don’t remember, we ended part one with Renaissance Technologies–the greatest investment company the world has ever known–having produced their finest returns to date in 1990. Elwyn Berlekamp took over investment…

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Portfolio on 5.12.21

I said I would still do updates when things got interesting and the market has certainly been interesting lately. The prior week was a good one. But there were a couple days where everything went up simultaneously. I said in a recent post, this makes me nervous and can sometimes lead to problems. Those problems…

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Breaking the Market-University

About a month ago I was lucky enough to be a guest on the Resolve Riffs Podcast. For those that saw it, near the end we discussed the idea of creating a list of “courses” outlining the lessons described on the blog (for those that didn’t see the podcast, here is a link). Adam Butler…

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