Bridger PenningtonFund Launch & Investment Expert

How We Navigate Uncertainty In The Market 🚀

17 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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Bridger Pennington discusses how to handle market uncertainty with a fund manager who separates controllable risks from uncontrollable ones. They reference recent crises like COVID, the Russia-Ukraine war, FTX's collapse, and interest-rate spikes to show why some volatility can be hedged and some cannot.

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It was like the end of the world. And then I was like, oh, we're good. I did a quick just in my brain things that we have all lived through in the last 5 years that were like huge crises. Obviously, we had COVID. Remember that thing got wedged in the Suez Canal? Russia-Ukraine war broke out. We were like, oh my gosh, World War III is going to take off. We've had a ton of stuff, obviously, in the Middle East. We've lived through 2 pretty crazy elections, regional banking crash and the Terraform FTX blowup, oil trading negative, multiple government shutdowns or almost shutdowns, 2 assassination attempts on Trump. George Floyd riots. We've had other riots, the fastest spike in interest rates in history. We've had a bunch of natural disasters. We had huge hurricanes last year, the Palisades fires, Maui fires, just to name a few.
It's such a great point, right? Because the thing is that there's certain things that you can control as a fund manager and there's certain things that you can't. And you need to be able to survive through and hedge your portfolio or protect yourself through those areas where you can't.