All the Glitters is……..Gold?

By John Del Vecchio and Brad Lamensdorf

Today, cryptocurrencies are all the rage. Bitcoin has hit new highs as it has increasingly captured the public’s imagination and gained support from institutions.

The new talk is that it’s an inflation hedge.

It may turn out though that the new most well-known inflation hedge is ready to rock.

That’s right. We are talking about gold.

While gold mining stocks have never been more profitable in 25 years, the amount of capital expenditures into the industry is at a 70-year low. This under-investment is setting the stage for better return on equity and higher prices in general due to supply constraints from the lack of Capex.

Take a look at the chart:

All the Glitters is……..Gold?
All the Glitters is……..Gold?

After decades of value destruction, gold miners’ free cash flow yield is surging.

This comes at a time when private investments in exploration have plummeted. Investment has dwindled to a trickle compared to the prior boom.

All the Glitters is……..Gold?
All the Glitters is……..Gold?

While other sectors are grabbing all of the headlines and sucking all of the oxygen out of the room, there’s a powerful set up occurring in an old inflation standby.

Fact is, sectors ebb and flow. What’s not hot can quickly ignite fire and huge trends can emerge. This set up is taking shape in the gold miners. 

It’s not just bitcoin that can rally 1,000%.

Big moves and great returns potentially lie ahead.

Speaking of returns…In case you missed it…

Brad hosted a webinar on February 9th talking about achieving better risk-adjusted returns in an overheated market. 

The Active Alts SentimenTrader Long / Short Strategy returned 25.87% in 2020 compared with 7.86[1] % in the Credit Suisse Long / Short Index.

What’s more, is that the Active Alts SentimenTrader Long / Short Strategy experienced a 9.99% draw down and held an average cash position of 19.4%[1] for the year.

The webinar dives into:

  • How to navigate the rocky markets we have been living through
  • How to generate alpha on the long and short side of the market
  • The power of our proprietary exposure gauge and what it means for investment returns in current market conditions

If you missed the webinar, you can watch it here!

Brad Lamensdorf Jason Goepfert Webinar

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dividends are included in the performance results. The Manager have also calculated the net results by applying the highest management fee to be charged to advisory clients. Results will vary based on the amount of the fee applied. The results were also calculated by rebalancing the long and short portfolios on a weekly basis.  The portfolio selection was and will be generated from the proprietary Active Alts stock selection process which is based on quantitative factors and mechanically driven. Commissions were added. No taxes were deducted; no borrowing costs were added; and no ex-dividend costs were included from the short portfolio.
Downside deviation is a measure of downside risk that focuses on returns that sell below a minimum threshold of a Minimal Acceptable Return (MAR).
Sharpe ratio is the average return earned in excess of the risk free rate per unit of volatility of risk.
Time to recovery is the duration of time it takes to restore the value lost.
Beta is a measure of a stock’s volatility in relation to the market. By definition, the market has a beta of 1.0, and individual stocks are ranked according to how much they deviate from the market. A stock that swings more than the market over time has a beta above 1.0.
Annualized volatility – Historic volatility measures a time series of past market prices. Implied volatility looks forward in time, being derived from the market price of a market-traded derivative (in particular, an option).
Max drawdown is an indicator of the risk of a portfolio chosen based on a certain strategy. It measures the largest single drop from peak to bottom in the value of a
portfolio (before a new peak is achieved).
(1) Indicators drive the exposure while a proprietary Long & Short portfolio are rebalanced monthly for the strategies equity drivers.
(2) Commissions were added to the exposure rebalance as well as the monthly stock rebalance.

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