This conference call will discuss:

• Relationships and correlations among the four primary asset class categories;
• polar opposite pairs of asset classes and the inverse correlation between the members of each pair;
• how the mixing of polar opposite assets within a portfolio produces especially low volatility with little or no sacrifice of average return;
• how a mix of all four primary asset classes produce “permanent portfolios” with unusually high Sharpe ratios.

R. DAVID RANSON is the president and director of research at HCWE & Co. (formerly Wainwright Economics), an independent investment research firm now located in Cambria, California. Originally the investment performance research arm of H.C. Wainwright & Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, Wainwright Economics became an independent operation in 1978 and has since been renamed HCWE.  Prior to becoming a general partner of H.C. Wainwright & Co. in 1977, Mr. Ranson taught economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He has been an assistant to then Treasury Secretary William E. Simon, and a member of Director George P. Shultz’s personal staff at the Office of Management and Budget. Prior to his service in Washington, he was a member of the Boston Consulting Group. David Ranson is a Senior Fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas and a Fellow of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and Business Enterprise at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He has addressed audiences and published articles on a wide range of economic and investment topics, and has provided testimony to a number of Congressional committees. His work has been mentioned or appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Barron’s, the Economist, Forbes, the Christian Science Monitor and other publications. He holds M.A. and B.Sc. degrees from Queen’s College, Oxford, and an M.B.A. in finance and a Ph.D. in business economics from the University of Chicago.

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