Build a Crisis-Proof Portfolio

Hosted by Arkadi Avanesyan

Thu, Mar 12, 2026

7:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

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What you'll learn

Understand antifragility: profiting from disorder

Discover how to identify investments that don't just survive volatility—they actually get stronger from it.

Classify holdings as Fragile, Robust, or Antifragile

Apply a three-category system to evaluate every asset in your portfolio and identify hidden vulnerabilities.

Recognize why most portfolios break during crises

Understand the structural flaw in traditional portfolios that causes investors to panic-sell at the worst possible time.

Ask the one question that reveals true investment risk

Learn to evaluate any asset by asking "Does this benefit from volatility?" before adding it to your portfolio.

Why this topic matters

Your portfolio is probably built for good times only. When markets crashed in 2022, most tech professionals watched 30-40% of their savings evaporate—and many panic-sold at the worst moment. The problem wasn't the market. It was how the portfolio was constructed. You'll stop making investment decisions based on fear or guesswork.

You'll learn from

Arkadi Avanesyan

Quant Developer, Luxembourg

I spent a decade building investment products in Luxembourg's highly regulated financial environment—where capital preservation isn't optional, it's the law.

At Finvex and Reitsmarket, I developed quantitative indices—low volatility, multi-factor, dynamic allocation—that were commercialized by Société Générale in 60+ countries and used by Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank in structured products totaling over €1.5 billion in assets.

I've seen firsthand how institutional portfolios are constructed to weather volatility—and how different that is from what most individual investors do.

Now I consult for fund managers, building systems that measure performance across 200+ mutual funds and hedge funds. I also teach portfolio management and investment decisions on Coursera, where nearly 70,000 students have enrolled in my courses. On Codementor, I've trained 800+ individuals one-on-one with a 4.99/5 rating.

I created this course because the frameworks I used to build institutional products aren't complicated—they're just not taught to regular investors. You'll learn the same principles that protect capital in Europe's strictest regulatory environment, translated into a system you can implement yourself.


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