Episode 127

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24th May 2022

ReSolve Riffs with Rob Van Wielingen on Systematic All Weather Investing

Our guest this week was Rob Van Wielingen, President & CEO of Viewpoint Investment Partners, a boutique investment management firm offering systematic strategies to private and institutional investors. Our conversation included:

  • The Van Wielingen family background in the oil and gas industry
  • Rob’s decision at an early age to focus on finance and technology
  • Learning from his grandfather’s experience: “I know what it’s like to be rich – I’ve been rich three times”
  • How the family gradually moved from highly concentrated allocations in energy companies to diversified portfolios
  • The logical fallacy of active vs passive as the starting point for rethinking their investment approach
  • Why the path to becoming rich is diametrically opposed to that of staying rich
  • Trial by fire – launching the business during the Great Financial Crisis
  • From rudimentary spreadsheets to ‘full blown quant’
  • The trouble with lagged and infrequent data
  • Embracing the ideas of Return Stacking
  • The differences between Risk Parity and Risk Budgeting
  • Recursive Risk Parity – drawing the best ideas from different approaches
  • Human nature vs systematic approaches
  • Carry, Trend, and how asset allocation can be both relative and absolute
  • And more

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 Inc.

 

*ReSolve Global Inc. 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 Inc.is a registered person with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.

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Resolve Riffs Investment Podcast
Welcome to ReSolve Riffs Investment Podcast, hosted by the team at ReSolve Global*, where evidence inspires confidence.
These podcasts will dig deep to uncover investment truths and life hacks you won’t find in the mainstream media, covering topics that appeal to left-brained robots, right-brained poets and everyone in between. In this show we interview deep thinkers in the world of quantitative finance such as Larry Swedroe, Meb Faber and many more, all with the goal of helping you reach excellence. Welcome to the journey.


*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.