James Fox - Sprott Physical President Director of the General Partner

SPPP Stock  CAD 13.86  0.20  1.42%   

President

Mr. James R. Fox is President, Director of Sprott Asset Management GP Inc., is general partner of Sprott Physical Platinum and Palladium Trust. Mr. Fox currently serves as the President of the Manager. From February 2005 to November 2009, Mr. Fox served as Senior VicePresident of Sales Marketing at the Manager where he initiated the development of new products, formed a wholesale group to increase fund distribution and led marketing efforts to increase the Managers brand awareness in Canada and abroad. Mr. Fox was a key contributor to the Managers sales effort and strategic business initiatives, which have resulted in assets under management growing over his tenure. Mr. Fox joined the Manager in June 1999
Phone416 943 8099
Webhttps://sprott.com/investment-strategies/physical-
Fox graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Ontario in 1996 and a Masters of Business Administration from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in 1999.

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The Trust seeks to provide a convenient and exchangetraded investment alternative for investors interested in holding physical platinum and palladium bullion without the inconvenience that is typical of a direct investment in physical platinum and palladium bullion. The Trust intends to invest primarily in longterm holdings of unencumbered, fully allocated, physical platinum and palladium bullion and will not speculate with regard to shortterm changes in platinum and palladium prices. Sprott Physical Platinum (SPPP) is traded on Toronto Exchange in Canada and employs 4 people. Sprott Physical is listed under Asset Management & Custody Banks category by Fama And French industry classification.

Management Performance

Sprott Physical Platinum Leadership Team

Elected by the shareholders, the Sprott Physical's board of directors comprises two types of representatives: Sprott Physical inside directors who are chosen from within the company, and outside directors, selected externally and held independent of Sprott. The board's role is to monitor Sprott Physical's management team and ensure that shareholders' interests are well served. Sprott Physical's inside directors are responsible for reviewing and approving budgets prepared by upper management to implement core corporate initiatives and projects. On the other hand, Sprott Physical's outside directors are responsible for providing unbiased perspectives on the board's policies.
Scott CFA, CoChief LP
John Wilson, CoChief CEO
James Fox, President Director of the General Partner
Kirstin McTaggart, Chief Compliance Officer, Corporate Secretary, Director of the General Partner

Sprott Stock Performance Indicators

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Pair Trading with Sprott Physical

One of the main advantages of trading using pair correlations is that every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if Sprott Physical position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Pair trading also minimizes risk from directional movements in the market. For example, if an entire industry or sector drops because of unexpected headlines, the short position in Sprott Physical will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

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The ability to find closely correlated positions to Sprott Physical could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Sprott Physical when you sell it. If you don't do this, your portfolio allocation will be skewed against your target asset allocation. So, investors can't just sell and buy back Sprott Physical - that would be a violation of the tax code under the "wash sale" rule, and this is why you need to find a similar enough asset and use the proceeds from selling Sprott Physical Platinum to buy it.
The correlation of Sprott Physical is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as Sprott Physical moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Sprott Physical Platinum moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.
Correlation analysis and pair trading evaluation for Sprott Physical can also be used as hedging techniques within a particular sector or industry or even over random equities to generate a better risk-adjusted return on your portfolios.
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