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About The Weekly Roundup
The Weekly Roundup is where you'll find our free Friday newsletter that rounds up what we've been up to during the week. But there's also a little bit extra.
What has been traded in any of the portfolios? Has ByteTrend thrown up any new trends to investigate? What are we seeing in the markets that pique our interest?
The Friday round-up is a great place to start understanding what we're up to at ByteTree.
Previous Editions
The Silk Road
I recently visited Uzbekistan, located in central Asia. Since 2016, when the first post-Soviet Union President Islam Karimov died, the country has opened up to the world and is growing quickly under the new President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. They have embraced the market economy and will welcome an expected 7 million
But Gold Has Done Nothing
Gold doesn’t get the credit that it deserves. Despite having a 5,000-year history in finance, it remains a controversial asset and widely misunderstood. Central banks hoard it because when things go wrong, there’s nothing better. The super-rich hoard it, admiring the diversification benefits and long-term inflation protection.
The Multi-Asset Investor Performance Review
With another quarter behind us, it is a good time to show the results for the Whisky and Soda Portfolios that are published weekly in The Multi-Asset Investor letter. I have been running these for 8 years, having previously managed money at HSBC for 17 years beforehand. More than anything,
Creative Destruction
“The concept is usually identified with the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter, who derived it from the work of Karl Marx and popularized it as a theory of economic innovation and the business cycle. It is also sometimes known as Schumpeter's gale. In Marxian economic theory, the concept refers
Meet the Managers
It isn’t just ByteTree that has embraced investing in Bitcoin and Gold with our BOLD Index. On Wednesday, I had the pleasure of discussing this subject with two specialist fund managers in this field. They are both disciples of the Austrian School of Economics and see Bitcoin and Gold