Eric Peters
3 appearances on the record.
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Peters: Building infrastructure to tokenize traditional assets and real-world loans
“We started building a platform which is going to be infrastructure for tokenizing essentially all traditional assets as opposed to tokens like Bitcoin or Ethereum. So taking real world assets or traditional stocks and bonds and all sorts of loans and someday a…”
Peters: Bitcoin Is Economically Unique Because Supply Cannot Respond to Price
“It's an asset unlike any other asset that I am aware of in the history of the world in the sense that no matter what the price is, the supply will not respond. It has a predefined schedule of supply over the next, you know, a hundred years or whatever, a 120 y…”
Peters: Ambiguity is necessary to generate high investment returns
“Things have to not make sense sometimes for it to be valuable. If we had perfect clarity around all of these things, the price would be a lot higher.”
Peters: Spot ETFs make simple Cayman crypto beta vehicles obsolete
“Now that we have clarity that we now have ETFs, there's really no purpose to have
Simple Cayman beta vehicles.”
Peters: Trend following will generate substantial crypto alpha
“We do trend following in that, which is, I think there'll be a lot of alpha in trend following.”
Peters: Asset managers must narrow focus to scale before resuming experimentation
“When you start an asset manager, You gotta figure out what works, what makes you special, and you might have to try a number of things, and then at some point, if you're fortunate, you figure it out. So you're just surviving, which we did for a lot of years, a…”
Peters: One River Advisor Kevin Hassett Driving Trump Economic Strategy
“Kevin Hassett, who's one of our advisors, is gonna be involved driving economic strategy.”
Peters: Governments Will Not Voluntarily Give Up Seigniorage Power
“Seniorage is a great power. Why would we ever give that up? There's no reason to give it up, and governments, generally speaking, amass power. They don't shed themselves of different powers”
Peters: Institutional Allocations to Crypto Remain Small and Subscale
“We speak with institutions all the time and by and large, some have very small investments in the space, either through a venture deal that they did Or maybe with, there was someone at the investment team that had great foresight and said, listen, we should st…”
Peters: Digital Assets Offer a Technological Call Option That Gold Lacks
“You kind of have this call option on technology when you buy these assets that you don't have in gold. Like gold will be the same, In 2000 years as it was 2000 years ago, but these assets are going to be different and improved in a year and 10 years and a hund…”
Peters: US 2021 Budget Deficit Will Reach 15% to 20%
“So when you look at the U S and you look at just the massive deficit that we ran last year, this year's deficit is going to be 15 to 20% with an economy that's actually bouncing back to life.”
Peters: Coinbase operates as a pure agency desk without principal risk
“They have an agency desk, meaning I was able to interact with their institutional trading desk. They don't have a proprietary trading desk. They don't take principal risk”
Peters: One River Purchased Over $600M in Digital Assets
“We bought, I think this is all public information, we bought over six hundred million dollars of digital assets.”
Peters: One River's First Public Statements Moved Bitcoin 15-25%
“The first three times, you know, Though we've said anything, Bitcoin has moved by 15 to 25% within a couple days, which is kind of wild.”
Peters: Frictionless Capital Mobility Will Check Reckless Sovereign Policies
“What probably will happen is those countries that have the most reckless policies will find that there is a greater check on them.”
Peters: Alan Howard Was the Earliest Hedge Fund Manager in Crypto
“Alan's deeply knowledgeable in this space. He has all kinds of investments throughout the ecosystem and is probably the earliest hedge fund person in this space.”
Peters: Floor trading offers no fundamental information, only emotion and flows
“The problem is on the floor is you don't have any information really. You have a ticker that's running across. You're just trading off of emotion and flows and things like that.”
Peters: Countries frequently see capital markets peak after hosting the Olympics
“It's not infrequent. That countries can kind of peak in terms of their capital markets once they get past the glow of the Olympics.”
Peters: Most Allocators Lack Infrastructure for Active Macro Tilting
“There was a much, much bigger group of interested investors who loved the idea of being able to tilt their portfolio with the types of themes that we developed. But when push came to shove, we looked so different that they didn't have the investment team infra…”
Peters: Post-COVID relative value volatility will be a target-rich environment
“And I think coming out of this crisis, it's going to be a very target rich environment for a strategy like that, because there are so few players left in it. And whenever you start dislocating markets like this, The people who can manage the risk well through …”
Peters: Trend following works because humans cannot comprehend the scale of change
“I think that we get paid to trade long-term trends because the world is always changing, and there are certain times in history it's changing more dramatically and perhaps quickly than others, but the world is always changing, and it's difficult for humans to …”
Peters: Investors will stop worrying about tail risk within 3 to 5 years
“And then I guarantee you in three or five years, people won't be that worried about stuff like that anymore.”
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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 |