From Poker Pro to Wealth Manager: Inside the MoneyPenny Podcast & FIRE 2026 Conference
Nic Nevím, an investor, trader, asset manager, and former professional poker player, generates an average annual return of roughly 30 percent over a ten-year period while emphasizing process over track record. Interviewed on the MoneyPenny podcast available via Herohero, Opinio, and standard podcast directories, the trader known by the pseudonym Nic Nevím outlines a shift from poker tables and cash-stuffed drawers to professional asset management.
Investment Strategy and Market Sentiment
Nic Nevím maintains that financial markets can be beaten consistently over the long term, contrasting with passive indexing theories. The trader discusses managing client funds, placing bets on early market downturns, analyzing artificial intelligence stocks, and reading retail investor sentiment.
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FIRE Program 2026 Conference Details
Practical portfolio analyses, actual asset allocations, and practitioner discussions form the core of the upcoming FIRE Program 2026 investment conference, scheduled for October 7, 2026, at Holešovická tržnice in Prague. Registration and welcome coffee open the event from 09:30 to 10:00.
From 10:05 to 11:05, Anna Píchová, Petr Žabža, and Michael Almásy lead a session titled Kam investovat v příští dekádě, exploring portfolio construction for the next ten years, risk profiles, and the roles of public and private markets, bonds, and cash. A subsequent 15-minute panel running from 11:05 examines asset tokenization across stocks, bonds, and funds to determine whether the technology delivers lower costs and faster settlement outside pilot projects.
Real Estate, Passive Investing, and Wealth Management
Real estate investments face scrutiny between 11:20 and 12:20 as Jan Zedník, Ivana Birtová, and Vít Soural compare proprietary survey data from property investors against macroeconomic realities covering financing, rental yields, maintenance, vacancy rates, taxes, and time costs.
Passive investing risks are addressed from 13:30 to 14:30 by Lukáš Nádvorník, Jindřich Pokora, Dan Hamerník, and Tomáš Tyl. The panel analyzes index concentration, heavy weighting in United States equities and major technology firms, valuations, and currency risks where global equity exchange-traded funds may fall short. Tibor Nyitray follows from 14:30 to 15:05 by opening his personal rentier portfolio to compare growth assets, income streams, stabilization components, and liquid reserves against simpler ETF-based alternatives.
Large Portfolios and Demographic Shifts
Family wealth management reaching hundreds of millions or billions of crowns is examined from 15:05 to 15:35 by Jakub Vrbovský, detailing architecture across public markets, real estate, private equity, private debt, direct stakes, and liquidity. Dennis Vymer, Dalibor Bláha, and Miloslav Diviš discuss paths to financial independence between 15:55 and 16:35, comparing incomes, savings rates, and target expenditures.
Demographic pressures form the focus from 16:35 to 17:05, where Martin Slaný analyzes the impact of an aging population and a projected decline of over one million inhabitants in the Czech Republic on labor markets, public finances, pensions, and real estate. Finally, Jan Kohout and Jan Marvan present a practical Plan B for investors from 17:05 to 17:50, outlining multi-bank diversification, asset custody, foreign bases, and second residences for a model Czech family. MoneyPenny podcast subscribers are eligible for a 20 percent ticket discount.