MacNicol’s The Alternative Commentary- March 24, 2020 The Absolute Return Fund through its partnerships invests in Latin America (LATAM) and our distressed debt program was impacted and impacted significantly. As today is March 24th, 2020, I am not in a position to discuss specific performance metrics of the fund just yet but will detail them [...]
MacNicol’s The Alternative Commentary- March 23, 2020 the Alt Program's holdings represent a diversified array of properties, private businesses and hedge funds, we will communicate our update to you in a series of three sequential category-specific updates beginning with real estate, turning to private equity and concluding with hedge funds. Click the link below [...]
MacNicol’s Monthly Commentary - March 2020 Late February’s stock market action has the dubious distinction of having set a number of dastardly investment records. We will avoid rehashing the painful plethora of horror stories here as many investors continue to lick wounds. At the same time some market stats made even our eyes water and [...]
MacNicol’s Monthly Commentary - February 2020 I earned a Science Degree from the University of Toronto in the late 1990’s. Among the more challenging courses I took in those days was human immunology. Human immunology gave me the opportunity to learn how the body fought off bacteria and viruses, and whole host of other interesting [...]
MacNicol’s The Alternative Quarterly Commentary- January 2020 During the fourth quarter of 2019 the Alternative Asset Trust was predominantly flat. Hedge funds were higher in the fourth quarter as losses in emerging market debt turned the corner and began moving higher later in the year. Private equity was higher in the quarter and - throughout [...]
MacNicol’s Quarterly Commentary- January 2020 One of the things that amazes me is the number of research houses and investment newsletters that publish their “year-end” investment reviews in early December. A lot can happen in a short period of time, so I wait until after New Year’s to begin writing my own year-end investment review [...]
MacNicol’s Monthly Commentary - December 2019 My friend wanted to learn more about real estate to provide his clients with better information when it came to their investment options. Institutional sales can be a tough, competitive business where you only “eat-what-you-kill” so it is important to have a competitive edge. With real estate being one [...]
MacNicol’s Monthly Commentary - November 2019 One of the things that working with the MacNicol team can do is help you avoid investment myopia, the natural tendency to focus on the short-term. Apart from helping investors avoid “bubbles” partnering with us can allow your overall cost of investments to fall. In James Montier’s little book [...]
MacNicol’s The Alternative Quarterly Commentary- October 2019 The MacNicol Alternative Asset Trust is a multi-strategy, alternative investment platform designed to generate positive and uncorrelated returns against the public stock and bond markets. The Trust, through its underlying limited partnerships, is invested in private real estate and mortgages, private equity and multi-strategy hedge funds. Combined, the [...]
MacNicol’s Quarterly Commentary- October 2019 Sometimes it really pays to be open minded. For example, this summer I vacationed in beautiful Boston Bar, BC where I was presented with can of beer from someone with the Dead Frog brewery in Aldergrove (a suburb of Langley for all you Torontonians). Dead Frog…I thought to myself…how good [...]
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