The Esoteric Investor: Alternative Investments for Global Macro Investors

Massive demographic, environmental, and economic shifts are generating new investment opportunities all over the world.

The Esoteric Investor identifies some of these investments through the lens of thorough fundamental analysis.

Vishaal B. Bhuyan begins by explaining why professional investors should become more creative in sourcing opportunity. He demonstrates the immense potential in pricing and trading the $24 trillion of longevity risk carried by private pensions around the world and the new instruments associated with them. Next, he shows how global events offer sustained profit opportunities in specific commodities markets most investors still ignore.

If you’re looking for potential investment ideas that most portfolio managers haven’t yet exploited, The Esoteric Investor will be an indispensable resource.

Three Detailed Case Studies–Find tomorrow’s profits where others aren’t looking:

• Demographics: Life markets in an era of aging populations and collapsing pensions

• Tuna: Fishing for profits where you least expect them

• Water: Profiting from the world’s most important commodity–survival

Competing with millions of mainstream investors can no longer deliver superior results. Fortunately, there are promising alternative paths to profit–and you’ll find them here.

&>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.