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2026-07-31
What Is a Fonds voor Gemene Rekening?
The structure underneath most Dutch funds: what an FGR is, who legally holds the assets, and the 2025 rules deciding whether it is taxed itself or looked through.
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Fund structure
2026-07-31
What Is a Fonds voor Gemene Rekening?
The structure underneath most Dutch funds: what an FGR is, who legally holds the assets, and the 2025 rules deciding whether it is taxed itself or looked through.
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2026-07-31
High-Water Marks and Performance Fees, Properly Explained
Twenty per cent of the profit is not a complete sentence. What a high-water mark is, why it never falls, and why funds run series so one investor does not pay for another's recovery.
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2026-07-31
Fund Liquidity: Dealing Dates, Notice Periods and the Price You Actually Get
Funds do not let you sell when you decide to. Dealing dates, forward pricing, what a notice period really costs, and what gates and suspensions mean when you want your money.
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2026-07-14
Digital Assets in a Systematic Portfolio
Markets that never close, volatility that rewrites the rulebook: what digital assets demand from a systematic approach.
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2026-07-14
Equity Indices in a Systematic Portfolio
An index is not a stock and not a currency: what makes equity indices their own asset class for rule-based trading.
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2026-07-13
Systematic Trading Explained: Rules vs. Discretion
No gut feeling, no hero trades: how rule-based strategies work, where their edge comes from, and why backtests deserve skepticism.
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2026-07-13
Understanding Drawdown: The Metric That Matters Most
Returns get the headlines; drawdown decides whether you survive to collect them. The one metric every investor should understand deeply.
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2026-07-13
Gold and FX: Trading Metals in a Systematic Portfolio
Metals are not just another currency pair: how gold behaves differently from FX, and what that means for rule-based trading.
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