Eric Peters
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Peters: Bitcoin Convexity Will Decline and Trade Like Gold
“At some point, it won't be that highly convex because the overall market cap will be so high and so many people will be in that it'll probably trade a bit more like gold, where gold sometimes trades like a great inflation hedge and sometimes it doesn't.”
Peters: AI Boom May Resemble 1950s High Returns, Not 2000s Bubble
“I would argue that because of AI, it might be more like the fifties than 2000.”
Peters: Hyper US Exceptionalism Is the Most Bullish Geopolitical Scenario
“You could imagine this hyper US exceptionalism dragging the rest of the world to do things that they've been reluctant to do. That's the most bullish scenario from a geopolitical and an economic perspective.”
Peters: Bitcoin's Six Boom-Bust Cycles Prove Its Structural Strength
“A lot of people will look at the volatility that Bitcoin has had over its life, and to date, it's had six discrete boom-bust cycles, and they would say that's a weakness. And I would just point out that I think that that's an enormous sign of strength, actuall…”
Peters: Bitcoin price volatility will decrease as its price rises
“I believe that the price will become less volatile the higher it goes.”
Peters: Post-Pandemic Policy Response Marks Beginning of Major Monetary Debasement
“We've expressed views that it's highly likely that the late stage of this long economic and market and debt cycle Will lead to a large monetary debasement essentially, which by the way, if you're a market historian, that's kind of obvious that that happens. Th…”
Peters: Bond Portfolios Are Guaranteed to Lose Money Under Current Policy
“If you have the Fed and the Treasury, in many respects, co-joined, and the Treasury's issuing a lot of debt, and the Fed is creating money to buy that debt, and then it's being spent and kind of pumped into the economy, and the Fed is actively trying to keep i…”
Peters: The Traditional 60/40 Portfolio No Longer Works
“The 40 just doesn't work anymore, right? And the reason that you love the 40 for the last few decades, our entire trading career, your and mine, has been that interest rates have been declining, and they finally got to a point where they just really couldn't d…”
Peters: US Regulators Aim to Build a Foundation for Digital Assets
“I think that what people misunderstand is the intent of regulators is to create A sound foundation for digital assets upon which American entrepreneurs and financial institutions can innovate and can build.”
Peters: Market Overprices Digital Asset Risks, Keeping Valuations Artificially Low
“I think as a fiduciary, we're doing the right thing because I think the market is overpricing all these risks, and that's why the price is low relative to where it will be.”
Peters: Cryptocurrencies are undergoing structural repricing because they are wildly underpriced
“Markets move because there's some underlying factor that's being priced in. And I think that underlying factor is the realization that this is part of the future and they're just wildly underpriced for that. And so that's why we're seeing kind of a repricing m…”
Peters: Bitcoin Will Not Take Over the US or EU
“This isn't Bitcoin gone wild and take over the world. I think in some nations that are very weak structurally, that could be the case. It puts a lot of pressure on them. Place like the US, not the case. Place like EU, not the case.”
Peters: Good Institutional Investment Vehicles for Crypto Do Not Exist
“What I've learned through this process is that there just aren't good vehicles for them to invest in.”
Peters: Cheaper hedges that offset negative carry often blow up in dislocations
“So what inevitably happens, and this is a hugely important lesson is when people are trying to mitigate a risk, there is an expensive way to do it, which is usually sound. And there are a whole range of cheaper ways to mitigate it in ways where you offset the …”
Peters: Private equity managers are the most over-leveraged actors in markets
“Everyone's over levered, and private equity guys, they're the worst in terms of this.”
Peters: One River entered crypto in November 2020
“And then we also entered crypto in November of 2020. And that was really to express one of those themes, which was monetary debasement and also captured some of the convexity of this new technology that was poorly understood at that time.”
Peters: Stacking Leveraged Beta With Convexity Drives Massive Compounding Through Rebalancing
“The result of it is if you combine equity beta in a leverage way, like a portable alpha type return stacking way, with what we do at this firm, our strategies are negatively correlated, positively convex, So anytime there's a wobble in the market, what we do s…”
Peters: Chasing S&P Outperformance Often Causes Investors to Exit at Bottoms
“Some of them try to outperform the S&P, and they end up oftentimes taking on a lot of additional risk that's quite correlated to underlying equities. It works great in the right market environment. And then when the market turns against those players, the loss…”
Peters: Euro Stoxx 50 and Hang Seng Were Worst Major Markets
“Eurostoxx, 50, and Hang Seng, those are the two really worst stock markets in the world from a performance standpoint over the last 1720 years.”
Peters: Discretionary Investing Spots Unprecedented Events But Suffers Emotional Bias
“The upside is as a discretionary investor, you can potentially see things around the corner that have never happened before, haven't happened in such a long period of time that your quantitative strategies can't foresee it. So that's the advantage. The downsid…”
Peters: One River Only Holds Long-Volatility Positions
“We have a very purist approach, and when I'm purist, I mean, we only ever are long-fall. We never are short-fall, and the reason for that is over my career, which is now 35 years, at every cycle, I have seen people who have convinced themselves they're long-fa…”
Peters: Rebalancing hedging profits during drawdowns boosts post-bear market compounding
“Even though equities are deeply discounted, but you're rotating money back into the S&P. When that market correction or bear market ends, you're now compounding from a much higher base than if you just owned equities the whole time.”
Peters: Monthly Calendar Rebalancing Is the Optimal Strategy
“The conclusion from that was actually the optimal approach is pretty simple, actually. Somewhere around a month is a pretty good place to be.”
Peters: Systematic Calendar Rebalancing Outperforms Threshold-Based Approaches
“Threshold is inferior statistically, and the probability of really getting it wrong is much higher, but people are still going to do it. I completely understand why, but if you have, in a way, if you can make the choice to do it in a dispassionate way, over ti…”
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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)
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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 |