Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Grant's Interest Rate Observer Radio.

With us today is Christopher Cole, who is a CFA for one thing, and even more importantly

is the founder and portfolio manager of the Artemis Vega Fund, which is a specialist in an asset class

called Volatility, that being an asset class, which is a thing in itself. Christopher

began his career in capital markets and investment banking at Merrill Lynch and there excelled,

not least in the year 2008. You'll recall 2008.

And he set up his fund and that was with us today.

We'll get to him in just one moment.

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