weekly-roundup

Thank you to my old friend Zak Mir, who co-hosted the ByteTree webinar on Thursday. I went over some of the key investment themes, reviewed the Soda and Whisky portfolio performance and spent the second half answering questions from the audience. It was great to have Zak as a co-host,

Last year, with so much talk of deep value opportunities in stockmarkets, I decided to do something about it. In September, I introduced ByteTree Venture, a distinct service that aims to uncover value globally, starting with the UK, where it's most prevalent. I'm excited to share

The event of the week in markets, other than the surge in Chinese stocks, was the sharp reversal in the yen. Normally, the yen lives a quiet life and rarely makes the headlines, but this week, it was all changed, with commentators lining up to condemn it. I take a

On 27th April 2022, I rang the bell at the SIX Exchange in Zurich to launch the 21Shares ByteTree BOLD ETP (BOLD SW). It was an unfortunate time as Bitcoin soon faced one scandal after another, and within weeks, BOLD had slumped below the world’s stockmarkets. BOLD ETP Versus

I recently visited Uzbekistan, located in central Asia. Since 2016, when the first post-Soviet Union President Islam Karimov died, the country has opened up to the world and is growing quickly under the new President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. They have embraced the market economy and will welcome an expected 7 million

Gold doesn’t get the credit that it deserves. Despite having a 5,000-year history in finance, it remains a controversial asset and widely misunderstood. Central banks hoard it because when things go wrong, there’s nothing better. The super-rich hoard it, admiring the diversification benefits and long-term inflation protection.