ABOUT HYDRA
We “think in probabilities.” Investing (and life) does not exist in absolutes rather probabilities and shades of grey. In the short to mid term there are volatility flows that drive the markets and create the market structure dynamics we experience while the macroeconomic factors affect the longer term. We must understand these option market flows by deciphering the signal from the noise so we can capture that momentum while also focusing on longer term value strategies.
We are in a changing environment. The past 40 years have seen massive expansion as well as debt accumulation. We appear to be in a late cycle with post-GFC (2008/9) exponentially accelerating that era of loosened monetary policy and ZIRP, which is behind us.
This upcoming time period should be different and, thus, challenging to maintain real returns above the potentially secular inflationary period coupled with lower growth amidst monetary devaluation. Many economists and financial market experts have said we will have a “lost decade” and call the next 5-10 years+ “the most difficult time period since the Great Depressions.”
Regardless, at Hydra Wealth Advisors, we believe these challenges present tremendous opportunities ahead for those that are prepared with the knowledge and experience, we just need to Think Different and Invest Different.
What Is A Hydra?
The HYDRA is the symbol for resilience and adaptability and represents the unique capability to come back stronger in the face of challenges and adversity.
In Greek mythology, cutting off one head grew two back. We took the name because that is what a portfolio should do under stress: absorb the hit and come out with more room to move, not less.
At Hydra Wealth Advisors, we focus on not only surviving but thriving by applying a 'systems thinking' approach to challenges to discover the opportunities for innovative solutions. There are always new subsets of opportunities that arise from the challenges. It is about perspective and mindset. We have the expertise and experience and are your financial partners in staying ahead of these difficult times which are opportunities to adapt and come back stronger and better.
There is always a better, different way.
"In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run it is a weighing machine."
Ben Graham
Hydra Wealth Advisors provides investment advice to high net worth individuals and families, family offices, RIAs, businesses, and large institutions with their investment strategy and decision making that is macro focused and momentum driven. Our advice is based on a balanced approach to investing that combines quantitative and discretionary factors from short to mid term volatility flows and longer term macroeconomics factors to help you stay ahead during these challenging times.
We decipher signal from noise. There are many different investment strategies, however, a core feature of our holistic, balanced approach is diversification. Diversification strategies across asset classes focusing on investments in commodities and real assets such as GOLD, SILVER, Miners, and Bitcoin. Creative, efficient, and innovative ways to minimize risk while investing with monetary debasement protection and embedded inflation hedge across the board. Uncertainty is the only certainty. Therefore, it is important to think in probabilities and the probabilities of challenges arising are higher due to the confluence of factors. However, challenges present many opportunities. We are Macroeconomics focused for growth, value, risk mitigation, and monetary debasement protection while also capturing Momentum based investments.
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- Secularly Inflationary Period in Some Sticky Areas – Inflation is Cumulative
- Higher for “Longer” Especially Compared to ZIRP
- Increased Deficit Spending – Debt/GDP over 120%
- Higher Cost of Debt & Capital = Higher Cost Of Money
- Declining Productivity
- Long Term Yields Rising
- Increased Demand for Real Assets
- Higher Prices especially with necessities such as energy & food
- Continued Central Bank Devaluation of FIAT Currencies
- Higher Risk Premia and Higher Volatility and Uncertainty
- Lower Liquidity and Aggressive Monetary Policy Tightening
- Margins Compressed
- Rerate of Risk
- Corporate Credit Crunch with Lower Supply & Demand of Lending
- Stagnation in G7 Countries with Potential Outperformance by Emerging Markets
- Automation, AI, Blockchain Digital Revolutions
SIMPLIFY. We live in an era of information overload. Too much information is available to us but it does not make us smarter or better informed. Furthermore, unless sorted properly which is nearly impossible, it all becomes noise. Less is more. We are here to SIMPLIFY your investment strategies because this is OUR focus. It is SIMPLE but not easy.
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Our Founder
Rosanna Prestia, MBA
Founder, CEO, and Chief Investment Strategist
Serial entrepreneur, investor, CEO, CIO, business and investment strategist for over 25 years.
Rosanna has been building and running companies since 1999, starting in commercial real estate development with Xanadu Properties, LLC, then health clubs, and and later her commercial real estate brokerage, Prestia Group, LLC. In 2006 she founded Melting And Filling Equipment, Inc. to run WaxMelters, an industrial thermal processing equipment manufacturer, and she holds an executive seat at a manufacturer in the aerospace and defense supply chain.
That operating background is what she brings to markets. She has hired, financed inventory, priced against competitors, and
carried the cost of a rate move on a real balance sheet. When she reads a public company, she reads it as someone who has run one.
She holds a Series 65 and is a New York State licensed
Investment Advisor Representative. Her degrees are a Master of
Science in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins, an MBA in
Finance and Decision Science from UMass Amherst, and a Bachelor of Science in Decision Information Sciences from the University of Florida. She completed the Leadership Decision Making program at Harvard Kennedy School.
She works from an Austrian and monetarist framework, which in
practice means she spends her time on balance sheets, credit,
and monetary plumbing rather than on quarterly narratives.
She hosts The RO Show, a long-form interview podcast with
economists, traders, and operators, and writes daily as
@RosannaInvests.
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