Adam Butler, CFA, CAIA

Adam Butler is Chief Investment Officer of ReSolve Asset Management, sub-advisor to an alternative allocation strategy at Rational Funds. He manages ETF and futures based strategies including a global risk parity ETF, two Adaptive Asset Allocation funds, and a multi-strategy hedge fund. Adam is also author of the book Adaptive Asset Allocation: Dynamic Global Portfolios to Profit in Good Times and is ranked in the top 1% of authors by paper downloads on SSRN. He has authored over a dozen papers and dozens of articles on asset allocation; factor investing; quantitative methods; and portfolio optimization. Adam holds both CFA and CAIA charters and appears on BNN Bloomberg and CNBC.

The Pandemic Portfolio Podcast: Risk Parity, Convexity and Multi-Asset Factors in Extreme Markets

How long will the recession last? How deep will it be? What are the long-term implications for the economy, markets, and society? The global pandemic has ushered in a period of extreme uncertainty and investors are left with too many unanswered questions and afraid for their portfolios. Where do we go from here?

Adaptive Asset Allocation: A Different Way to “Manage Futures”

By most measures U.S. stocks and global bonds have pushed well into high valuation territory, which has preceded periods of very-low prospective returns in the past. For investors to achieve the same results as they achieved over the past 10 years in the next decade, we will have to experience a third major bubble in a row.

The Definitive Book on Factor Based Investing

Smart beta. Empirical finance. Evidence-based investing. These terms have migrated from the periphery of the investment ecosystem just ten years ago to become the investment world’s most popular memes today. Why?

Portfolio Optimization and the Sharpe Multiplier: A Case Study on Managed Futures

We’ve spent a great deal of time in past articles discussing the merits of portfolio optimization. In this article we will examine the merits...

Liquid Alternatives: A Masterclass in Due Diligence and Selection

In this webinar we collaborate with industry veterans Jon Stein and Terri Engelman Rhoads to unveil these key insights to help you optimize your liquid alternative strategy line up.

Managed Futures Trend Following: The Ultimate Diversifier

Katheryn Kaminski and Adam Butler provide a review of managed futures and the role of the asset class in an institutional portfolio. Katheryn and...

Machine Learning in Markets: Silver Bullet or Pandora’s “Black” Box?

In this episode Adam Butler and Rodrigo Gordillo host ReSolve’s Head of Quantitative Research, Andrew Butler to discuss how ReSolve employs tools from the field of machine learning to produce meaningful and practical improvements in investment outcomes.

Machine Learning in Markets: Silver Bullet or Pandora’s “Black” Box?

In this episode Adam Butler and Rodrigo Gordillo host ReSolve’s Head of Quantitative Research, Andrew Butler to discuss how ReSolve employs tools from the field of machine learning to produce meaningful and practical improvements in investment outcomes.

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