Practical Contrarian Blog
Our feedback on current trends, predictions for the future and other insights that empower investors around the world.
Navigating the S&P 500: How We’re Making Moves, Predicting the Future
As disciplined investors having been active in the financial markets for more than two decades, we recognize the overwhelming necessity for institutional investors to be allocating capital underpinned by rule-based strategies for effectively managing risk, and this...
What Makes a Hedge Fund Magical/Successful? Our Thoughts
After many years of guiding hedge funds and analyzing the markets for decades, it’s interesting to see how certain teams accelerate and reach the moon while others just don’t get there, and this post briefly touches on our experience over the years. First and...
Investing in Artificial Intelligence vs Quantum Computing: Hedge Funds, PE Firms in 2026
Everyone has been riding the AI wave for the past few years and sometimes when you’re too immersed in the water with the waves crashing in your face you don’t have the clarity to see what’s around the next turn, yet we do, and quantum computing is really where it’s...

The Rise of Investment Firms in India: How Mumbai Became an Epicenter
Institutional investors from all backgrounds including family offices, hedge funds, private equity firms and sovereign wealth funds need to take a step back and think about how the optics of locations are changing along with how that will subsequently affect a wide...

What Defines Someone as Ultra High Net Worth or Ultra Wealthy? Let’s Explore
There’s a big difference between operating in the real world guiding companies/entrepreneurs that are making moves each day versus asking questions in Google/ChatGPT for surface-level results, and this blog touches on what actually defines someone or their family as...

Should You Create a Family Office? Being Asked That Question Usually Means No
Aside from our own investments and philanthropic ventures along with guiding a wide range of financial institutions over the years from family offices to hedge funds, one question we sometimes get is whether a family that’s finally reaching their goals should then...
You’re Now a Professional Athlete: How Do You Preserve Your Wealth?
There’s something magical about spending your entire life dedicated to your craft and being the best at it then your dreams come true not only with your newfound role as a recognizable professional athlete but also the money that comes with it whether you’re in the...
Reflecting on the Past: When Strategic Investments Make Sense Then Dollars
It is always interesting to look back where classic adages originated and had relevance then over time transformed into something else, including the classic phrase “if it doesn’t make dollars it doesn’t make sense” – a mindset that still holds true today in the...
What Makes a Family Office Successful? 3 Things We’ve Learned Over the Years
Looking at all of the challenges in life it’s difficult to create wealth in the first place let alone generational wealth that demands the need for a family office, which brings up a good question: What is the secret sauce that makes family offices successful? And...
Family Office vs Multi-Family Office: What’s the Difference?
After guiding a wide variety of investors ranging from hedge funds to family offices over the years one of the common questions we are often asked is around the difference between a family office operated by a single family and a multi-family office which is many...