Eric Peters
3 appearances on the record.
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Peters: Private equity is done and managers will emerge looking terrible
“This is the kind of thing that may make me look foolish. I think private equity is done. I think that it will always be an investment style like it has for over the course of my career. It was just LBO investing when I started, I guess now it's private equity,…”
Peters: Equities Drive 90% of Institutional Portfolio Risk
“If you look at the real risk in their portfolio, it's probably 90% driven by equities, and it comes in all sorts of different forms, private equity, public equity, credit. You end up with portfolios that there's just one risk factor, which is equities.”
Peters: Blockchain Integration Will Put Digital Wallets on Every Phone
“This is where global financial markets get rewired onto blockchain based rails. And when that happens, it means that every single person in the world, when that's fully complete, will have a digital wallet on their phone.”
Peters: Markets Face a 15-Year Breakdown of Historical Asset Correlations
“COVID, I believe, propelled us into this new regime. And whether most big investors believe that that's true or not, they have to at least acknowledge that it might be true, that nothing's permanent, but we might be in for a 10 or 15 year period where the reli…”
Peters: Private Equity Capital Return Struggles Signal Rising Liquidity Risks
“When I see equity markets at all time highs, and I keep just reading the papers and private equity guys don't seem to be able to return capital to their clients. Wow. Imagine what that would look like in a bear market. That's an example of liquidity risks that…”
Peters: Digital Cash Enables Total State Financial Control and Surveillance
“Once you've moved people off paper money, there's no place to hide. And so that's how the government acquires power through that, because once they do that, well, think of all the things that you can do with that, right? One of the things you can do is you can…”
Peters: Regulators Can No Longer Destroy Bitcoin
“And so, you know, a number of years ago, the regulators could have destroyed Bitcoin. They can no longer destroy it. They could do various things, but they can't destroy it.”
Peters: Bitcoin Lacks Sustainable Downside Until Institutional On-Ramps Are Built
“Until those on-ramps are built, and until I'm getting those calls from the biggest brokers and investment banks, and there's that, of course, there's downside. There's always downside in market, but I don't think there's much sustainable downside until we at l…”
Peters: Bitcoin Will Coexist With Digital Fiat Currencies
“The investor in me is, look, this is the future of money. If it's allowed to survive and coexist with digital fiat, which I strongly believe it will be, then we're at the outset of A decade or a hundred year journey in terms of what this asset class will becom…”
Peters: Crypto Is a Deeply Discounted, Highly Convex Version of Gold
“These assets are just uniquely positioned to do well, by the way, gold should do well as well, except these are just this really interesting, highly convex version of gold. That's I think just deeply discounted.”
Peters: A 2% Digital Asset Allocation Offers a 10x Macro Hedge
“The ones who are thinking about digital assets are thinking about it in kind of that debasement hedge part of their portfolio. And it's really attractive because it is highly convex. So you could have a relatively small allocation and it could go up 10 X or it…”
Peters: Central Banks Are No Longer Truly Independent of Treasuries
“We no longer really have independent central banks. They're working together with treasury, and politicians are looking at that as a solution right now, and inflation hasn't taken off.”
Peters: Universal Global Digital Wallet Adoption Expected Within a Decade
“In 10 years, you have a high degree of confidence that almost everyone on the planet will have digital wallet on their phone. And they'll view it as being as secure as Citibank or anything. And they'll be able to move money between currencies, both government …”
Peters: Bitcoin and Ethereum Skew Heavily to the Upside at $50,000
“The upside versus downside is so skewed to the upside that the most important thing I can do as a fiduciary for my clients, which are big institutional investors, they're not small mom and pop punters or Robin Hood investors, they're just Institution. So the m…”
Peters: Most Crypto Assets Will Underperform Bitcoin and Ethereum
“It's probably the case that a lot of those assets over time won't even come close to the performance that I see out of these two assets.”
Peters: Without COVID stimulus, equities would have fallen 30% to 50% further
“And in the absence of what the fed and what the government have done with this, I think the equities would be down 30 to 50% from where they are right now.”
Peters: Pensions will not be able to hit 7.5% return targets
“There's no way pensions are going to be able to even come close. They're not even to be able to pretend that they can anymore.”
Peters: Equities are likely to drop much lower before crisis ends
“I think we're a lot closer to the ceiling in terms of equity prices here than we are to the floor. I think it's highly likely that we'll be a lot lower in equities before this is over.”
Peters: Post-COVID deleveraging will slow growth and expose public pension insolvency
“So the question I think you have to ask yourself is, will we go back to that type of financialized leveraged Corporate sector and investment portfolio. And I would say that it's pretty clear to me that is not happening. Okay. And so if that's not happening, th…”
Peters: Portfolios leveraging pseudo-diversification will be the worst performers
“I think we're going to find that the portfolios that applied that logic to the greatest degree are the worst performing. And so that behavior will be significantly curtailed, whether it's through regulation or whether it's through investment committees and end…”
Peters: Fed bailouts preventing capital destruction guarantee a prolonged low-return environment
“What the Fed is doing and the Treasury is they're saying, let's just make sure that no one goes broke, and let's make sure that none of this capital gets destroyed, and so I don't see how that doesn't lead to a long period of really low returns.”
Peters: Future Equity Returns Will Be Weaker and Highly Volatile
“I suspect that it won't be as strong as looking back over the last 20 years. I suspect it'll be more volatile. There could be times where it's brilliantly positive as well. I think there are big right tails. There are also some really bad tails that are potent…”
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Every mention by year
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 6 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Diogo Monica – Securing Crypto at Anchorage Digital (EP.259, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.06)
- Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- Olaf Carlson-Wee – The Future of Crypto (EP.257, Crypto for Institutions 2 – EP.04)
- Ben Forman – Opportunities in DeFi (EP.256, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.03)
- Stephen McKeon – NFTs and the Consumer in Web3 (EP.255, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.02)
- Marcos Veremis – Allocator's Perspective on Blockchain (EP.254, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.01)
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
Appearances (3)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Eric Peters - Paradigm Shifts and Solutions at One River (EP.422) | Dec 16, 2024 | 30m |
| Crypto for Institutions 1: Eric Peters – The Macro Case for Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, | Mar 8, 2021 | 43m |
| Eric Peters – Trading and Evolution at One River (First Meeting, EP.18) | Apr 6, 2020 | 38m |