The Esoteric Investor Alternative Investments for Global Macro Investors

by Bhuyan, Vishaal B.

• ISBN13: 9780132485074
• ISBN10: 0132485079
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-15
• Publisher: Ft Pr

Summary

The Esoteric Investorreveals huge new investment opportunities hidden in the coming age wave, pension crisis, and today's massive demographic, economic, and regulatory shifts. Pioneering investor Vishaal B. Bhuyan shows how to profit from reverse equity transactions, commodities you've never considered, and longevity risk markets-the $24 trillion market you've never heard of!

Author Biography

&>Vishaal B. Bhuyan is Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Nariman Point, LLC, a New York-based investment management firm focusing on demographic-driven instruments, with expertise in insurance and longevity/mortality instruments. Prior to launching Nariman Point in early 2011, Bhuyan was an independent consultant providing family offices, private equity funds, and hedge funds with market insight and quantitative analysis on the life linked asset class. During that time he published “The Wave Report,” a monthly newsletter to clients providing a firsthand market perspective on the life markets.

 

Bhuyan is the author and editor of Life Markets: Trading Mortality and Longevity Risk with Life Settlements and Linked Securities and Reverse Mortgages and Linked Securities: The Complete Guide to Risk, Pricing, and Regulation. He has spoken at various hedge fund and insurance conferences in Tokyo, Vienna, New York, Orlando, London, Nice, Monaco, and Hong Kong. His book Life Markets was referenced in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission report on life settlements.

 

Bhuyan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005 with a degree in History and Sociology of Science, where he was vice president of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Investing in Demographics
Building the Demographic Framework	p. 7
Longevity and Mortality Risk Markets	p. 27
Reverse Equity Transactions	p. 55
The Tuna Trade
The Bluefin Tuna	p. 85
Tsukiji Fish Market	p. 133
Fishing for Maguro	p. 167
Blue Gold
Water: Who Has It, and Who Doesn't	p. 181
Mimicking the Water Cycle: Making Water Potable	p. 193
The Politics and Geopolitics of Water	p. 209
Investment Implications and Opportunities	p. 225
Bibliography	p. 241
Index	p. 283
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