Thursday, February 27, 2020

""A Translation Guide to Asset Manager-Speak"

The Institutional Investor 
   website published 
"A Translation Guide 
to Asset Manager-Speak"


Here's what 
I liked most:

We have 
never 
lost money 
= We have never 
    made money.


We have 
a great backtest 
= We are going 
    to lose money, 
     after we take 
     your money.


We are not
in crowded 
positions
 = We missed 
     all the best
     performing 
     stocks.


We are not 
correlated 
= We are 
    underperforming, 
    while the market 
    keeps going up.


We invest 
in unique, 
uncorrelated 
assets 
= We have 
    an illiquid portfolio, 
    which can’t be valued. 


We have a 
bottom-up 
approach 
= We have no idea 
    what markets 
    are going to do.


We have a 
top-down 
process 
= We think we know 
    what markets will do, 
    but really who does ?


The markets 
had a temporary 
mark-to-market loss 
= Our fundamental 
    analysis was wrong, 
    and we don’t know 
    why we lost money.

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