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peter pham
Founder
Phoenix Capital

Peter Pham is the founder of Phoenix Capital, a bespoke advisory firm offering analysis, strategies, and insights on investment and finance.

In 2013, John Wiley & Sons published his first book, The Big Trade: Simple Strategies for Maximum Market Returns. The thesis of the book states that one must look at markets from an agnostic and pragmatic standpoint, and assess markets based on available information and statistics. Pham reverse-engineered what the algorithmic trading desks are doing for beginners. The book is considered a top 10 book on investing and trading by various banks, with reviews citing it as a masterpiece and modern classic.

“It would help with entry points.. It’s not path dependent. It’s probabilistic. That’s how we think about things… Absolute Gold!”

$26 Billion Fund Manager in Australia

He went on to release 2 follow-up books through his investee company titled Decoded: Economics – Investments – Family Offices and The Big Trade 2.0. Based on the thoughts and opinions featured on publications such as ForbesThe Motley FoolSeeking AlphaCNN MoneyYale University Global, Capital IQ, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Reuters, Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, Active Trader, Minyanville, Wikipedia, Euromoney, Stansberry Research and Trading Markets.

The syndication partnerships with leading financial resource providers. On Seeking Alpha, his work has generated enough traffic to achieve top readership in multiple categories, including Forex, Demographics and ETF Long and Short Ideas. On The Motley Fool, more than a dozen pieces gestated have been chosen as ‘Editor’s Choice’ and have generated significant traffic and discussion. Partnerships resulted in over +10 million page impressions and views, making Peter one of the top-earning researchers in the fledgling space.

This led Pham and Phoenix to spearhead the expansion of MarketWise’s (NASDAQ:MKTWventures in Asia. They conducted bespoke research and analytics for a series of corporations, institutions, and high-net-worth clients, leveraging their skill sets to make public and private investments in various businesses around the world.

Previously, he was involved in designing and constructing various sell-side reports, dailies, weeklies, and initiation reports and investor relations. Additionally, Pham supported institutional sales and execution for broker-dealers, investment banks and advisory firms. As a broker-dealer, Pham sourced various products and instruments, including corporate access, private placements, block shares, and P-Notes. He served clients such as BlackRock, Macquarie Group, Gates Foundation, Soros Fund, and the Vatican Fund.

In emerging markets, Pham partnered with S&P Dow Jones to construct The Socialist Republic of Vietnam’s VN30 Equal Weight Index and announce the Commodities Investment Cycle Index.


Peter created a podcast series that has been featured on iTunes international in “New & Noteworthy” section with over +1.5M downloads and by Forbes. This series features numerous financial thought leaders including Ron PaulJim Rogers, Mark Mobius, James AltucherRobert KiyosakiJack SchwagerRick Rule, Marc Faber, Vitaliy KatsenelsonPorter StansberryFrank CurzioDavid MorganDoug Casey and Richard Maybury. They discuss market insights through casual, thought-provoking, and at times radical discussions.

Besides producing online content, he regular speaks at engagements on the presentation circuit in cities such as Singapore, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Perth, Toronto, London, and New York.


Peter is now based in the financial heartbeat of the world, Wall Street, identifying opportunities to step into the center of global finance, stay steps ahead of the market, and capitalize on today’s trends. He focuses on asset management with hedge funds and family offices till this day.

With over 20 years experience in capital markets, Pham’s expertise is sought by fund managers globally.

He is a force to be reckoned with.


Pham’s answer to Munger is Southerton, an intellectual sparring partner who shares a love of number patterns and esoteric research. Working as a professional musician and teacher for +20 years, he has invested in property, bullion, businesses and intellectual property (IP). Playing as a side man for virtuosos provided the surprising skill set needed to collaborate with one of finance’s luminaries.

To reconcile dichotomies in the market, they created the principles of inversion investing. Where the accuracy of one’s perception of reality is validated through the price discovery of calls. Together, they refined the multi-decade journey, to spread the word using unique intellectual property that effectively relays abstract complexity with actionable simplicity.

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