by Practical Contrarian | Feb 5, 2025 | Blog
When people outside the financial industry think about large investors, they often identify private equity, venture capital, the largest banks and other common institutions as fitting this mold though the rise of powerhouse family offices are increasingly playing a...
by Practical Contrarian | Feb 2, 2025 | Blog
After guiding a variety of financial institutions ranging from hedge funds to family offices and evaluating investments/portfolios from all ends of the spectrum it’s interesting how family offices in particular are taking off now– with the magic of tech...
by Practical Contrarian | Jan 27, 2025 | Blog
What is the 10-Year US Treasury Note (US 10Y) and How Does it Affect Financial Markets? Famed economist and Nobel Prize recipient Friedrich Hayek’s groundbreaking research/analysis on the correlation between interest rates, speculative asset price inflation and...
by Practical Contrarian | Jan 27, 2025 | Blog
The concept of wealth management has been around for generations and most often it comes down to not only investing in opportunities that could produce returns in the future but also mitigating risk. And how do you effectively achieve all of your goals? First and...
by Practical Contrarian | Dec 30, 2024 | Blog
Hyman Minsky characterized euphoric, frothy and irrationally exuberant markets as the necessary underpinnings of stability that fuel speculative manias. In short, conditions of low uncertainty when market participants are lined up on one side of the market provide the...
by Practical Contrarian | Dec 26, 2024 | Blog
We are living in a world that changes by the minute if not second and that has spurred a new wave of tech entrepreneurs with great ideas leading to unimagined success, though once you jump on that crazy raft and navigate the treacherous waters not only to survive but...
