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Podcast: Resolve Riffs Investment Podcast
Episode: ReSolve Riffs with Stuart Barton on Structuring Volatility ETPs
Description: Our guest this week was Stuart Barton, co-founder and Chief Investment Officer at Volatility Shares. Our conversation ranged across topics that included: Early career as a vol trader and how the space has changed over time Volatility Shares’ investment approach – probability-weighting and active trading ETNs, ETFs and other ‘packaging’ models – benefits and drawbacks Settlement as a crucial variable – matching vehicles and their underlying assets A post-mortem on the ‘Volmageddon’ episode in February 2018 Volatility strategies – wide variety of flavors for investors of all stripes and sizes ‘Picking up pennies in front of a steamroller’ and other vol strategies to avoid Asymmetric risks...