Description
What is a safe haven?
What role should they play in an investment portfolio? Do we use them only to seek shelter until the passing of financial storms? Or are they something more? Contrary to everything we know from modern financial theory, can higher returns actually come as a result of lowering risk? In Safe Haven, hedge fund manager Mark Spitznagel—one of the top practitioners of safe haven investing and portfolio risk mitigation in the world—answers these questions and more. Investors who heed the message in this book will never look at risk mitigation the same way again.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ix
PART ONE: WHAT COMES FIRST 1
Chapter One: AT WAR WITH LUCK 3
Chapter Two: NATURE'S ADMONITION 29
Chapter Three: THE ETERNAL RETURN 57
PART TWO: WHAT COMES AFTER 97
Chapter Four: A TAXONOMY 99
Chapter Five: HOLISM 123
Chapter Six: BOLD CONJECTURES 163
AFTERWORD: AMOR FATI 195
Acknowledgments 211
Index 213
