Strategic Investor Radio

Listen to Todd, founder and owner of Zinc Income Fund, a specialty lender in the residential rehab and resale business.  These securitized loans are  of less than 2 years duration, and pay Zinc's investors monthly payouts. In a day of record low interest rates this strategy has a strong track record of above market payouts to investors.  We hope you enjoy it.

Until now, investors could invest into publicly traded companies that are listed on the exchanges (NY Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, etc.), with all information re: these companies being made available to the public via quarterly earnings announcements and audited financial reports.  But, the vast majority of companies are private, so investing in them was much more difficult, as was digging thru financial information of them.  The jobs Act of 2012 made many of these companies eligible for public investing but gathering and analyzing the financial info on the companies remained a daunting task.  This allows the small investor to participate in these Venture Capital and Private Equity opportunities.  KingsCrowd provides the information and analytics to evaluate these companies.  We hope  you enjoy this interview.

Having spent his entire career in commodities trading, holdng a variety of high level positions w/various major trading firms, Tim started Auspice in 2005.  Focusing on their COM ETF, which is marketed and made available to the public thru Direxion family of mutual funds, It is a tactical, diversified basket of commodities that can be "Long" or in cash, based on rules, trend following, and contango/backwardation.  A very timely and important discussion for today that every investor should hear.

Following a distinguished career as a Naval Officer, Chris started the firm in 2016, investing in various farming and  agriculture diversified portfolios.  They match investors w/farming and agribusiness players, in Private Placement projects, typically w/equity positions.  Focused on the smaller, retail investors, this approach is fairly new and they are very active in the "Indoor Farming" space.  Chris discusses the opportunities and risks of ag investing, which should be interesting to anyone interested in ag investing.

A three plus decade Commodities and Futures trader and prolific writer and contributor for Seeking Alpha, Andrew offers great insight into the world of commodities and futures trading.  Never without an opinion, and always ready to defend his positions, Andrew is a delight to interview, as you will see.  If you are at all interested in learning how this market works, this is the place to listen.  His Brooklyn accent adds to the charm of it all.  Hope you enjoy.

Co-Founder of New Age Alpha, Julian explains the unique methodology of the firm's investment strategy.  Seeking to differentiate the losers from winners, NAA focuses on the "Human Risk Factors" that have been factored into the expected company performance in the future,  NAA's strategy seeks to rely only on the hard data in the company's financial statement in determining the expected future stock price.  They seek to eliminate the vague and ambiguous opinions that impact the expected stock value.  Certainly unique and interesting, investors will find this interview very interesting and certain to provide a perspective and approach that is not found elsewhere.  Hope you enjoy it.

Thematic ETF's have been developed to focus on particular themes of the investment marketplace.  Two of those themes are E-Sports and Gaming/Media Entertainment.  Listen to Mario discuss and explain two of Roundhill's ETF's focusing on these themes.  No question, these are avant-garde investment pursuits, now available to all investors thru a liquid investment vehicle, focused on a very new and evolving portion of the marketplace.  There is nothing ordinary about these ETF's and investors will find it very interesting.  

Dr. Dogan specializes in and researches the trading of company "Insiders" and the active trades of the 10% highest performing Hedge Funds, and publishes that information for his clients. In this interview he tells us what his research uncovers and how that information can be used productively by investors and advisors.  Knowing what companies have "Insiders" who are buying or selling their company's stocks can be a very valuable tool in evaluating the expected performance of a company and their stock,.  In addition, the ability to identify those stocks that are most owned by the higher performing Hedge Funds can be very helpful to investors.  This is one interesting interview.  We hope you enjoy it.   

A 30 plus year veteran in the futures commodities trading arena, and Co-Founder of CTG, Nell tells us about the industry and opportunities of trading commodities in the futures markets.  With retail and institutional traders/investors, typically thru Commodity Trading Advisors (CTA's), this is a less well known portion of the trading industry, and focuses on Gold, Silver and other Metals, Agriculture (corn, sugar, wheat, etc.), Pork Bellies, etc., typically for diversification purposes from U.S. Equites, Bonds, Real Estate, etc.  A very interesting take on this market niche that traders and investors can find to be opportunistic.  We hope you enjoy it.

Listen to Ed Coyne,, Senior Managing Director, for Sprott., who started his career as an Architect, educated at the Univ of Missouri, and switched to asset management over 30 years ago.  Sprott manages over $17 Billion, and focuses on Precious Metals and Real Assets, in variety of formats.  He discusses the reasons to own Precious Metals as well as the various ways and methods to own them.  Anyone interested in this marketplace, which is most every investor, should find this interview very interesting, and we hope that you catch some of the insights he offers.