ReSolve Riffs: Special Situation Investing in Crypto and Beyond

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.

Following our first conversation with David Fauchier (Portfolio Manager at Nickel Digital Asset Management), he insisted that we had to speak with Thomas Braziel, Founder and CIO of 507 Capital, who he claimed was one of the most interesting and independently-minded investors he had met in the digital asset space. With David as co-host, our awesome conversation with Thomas covered topics such as:

1. Why almost all his stories begin with a bankruptcy
2. Opportunities that don’t scale tend to offer the juiciest returns
3. The reason some of these trades work is precisely because they are not scalable
4. His perspective on the Mt. Gox debacle and why he has been buying claims on it for years
5. Claims investing – why many distressed assets fly under the radar of most allocators
6. His unique investment style – if Soros and Buffet had an ‘investment love child’
7. Different models for claims investing – from complex factoring to ‘loon shot buccaneering’

Getting along with all the players in the space can be a form of alpha

We went deep into the inner workings of the space, including how different countries treat personal liabilities in bankruptcies, the contrasts between English Common Law and the US legal system, and what it means to go ‘forum shopping’. Yet another highly entertaining and educational episode and we hope you enjoy it.

Thank you for watching and listening. See you next week.