Daruis Dale is the Founder and CEO of 42 Macro, an investment research firm that aims to disrupt the financial services industry by democratizing institutional macro-grade risk management frameworks and processes. Prior to founding 42 Macro, Darius was a Managing Director and partner at Hedgeye Risk Management, an independent investment research firm based in Stamford CT. He joined us for jam-packed and timely conversation that included topics such as:

• Positioning for inflation volatility and the “Midas Touch”
• The Fed and accelerating the taper
• The Dynamics of the recent “Friday Smackdown”
• The missing “Guardians of the Gate”
• The implications for bonds
• Cyclical changes and secular regimes
• Declaring regimes and pricing them in
• Portfolio construction and conditional probability
• Why you don’t get paid for being too early
• Frontrunning pricing with intuition and expectations
• The Style Factor and why it’s the best predictor
• Back-testing regime ensembles
• Covariance ranking, layering and beta ranking in portfolio construction
• Selecting and weighting macro indicators
• Behavioral Economics and why being different is important
• The impact of Bitcoin on portfolios
• The effects of expensive markets relative to inflation
• Policy mistakes and corrections

Thank you for watching and listening. See you next week.

This is “ReSolve’s Riffs” – live on YouTube every Friday afternoon to debate the most relevant investment topics of the day, hosted by Adam Butler, Mike Philbrick and Rodrigo Gordillo of ReSolve Global* and Richard Laterman of ReSolve Asset Management.

*ReSolve Global refers to ReSolve Asset Management SEZC (Cayman) which is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a commodity trading advisor and commodity pool operator. This registration is administered through the National Futures Association (“NFA”). Further, ReSolve Global is a registered person with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.