ALO08: Investing like the Rothschild's ft. Hugo Capel Cure
Top Traders Unplugged
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
4.8 • 712 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Today, Alan Dunne is joined by Hugo Capel Cure, Managing Director of Rothschild & Co, to discuss how they build strong portfolios for their clients, how rising inflation can affect the markets in a surprising way, how they use CTAs and Trend Followers to mitigate risk, the challenges of staying invested, being a stock and fund picker at the same time, how manager selection is like a dating process and how they differentiate between process and outcome, how they make good decisions as a team, how to act in times of crises, the people who inspired Hugo to become a better investor and much more.
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In this episode, we discuss:
- How to build strong Multi-Asset portfolios for your clients
- How using CTAs and Trend Followers can help mitigate risk
- How manager selection is like a dating process
- How to make good decisions as a team
- How to be well prepared for the next crises
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Episode TimeStamps:
00:00 - Intro
03:18 - Introduction to Hugo’s work and investing strategy
18:32 - From correlation focused to trading oriented strategies
24:50 - Being allocated to trend followers
28:35 - Challenges of staying invested
30:23 - Being a chef and a critic
39:41 - Making decisions and having a plan
53:09 - People who have inspired Hugo
59:31 - Thanks for listening
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| 0:00.0 | I think our feeling is, you know, particularly coming back to the equity side, is that there's |
| 0:13.3 | tremendous advantages of being a stock picker and a fund picker. And the analogy I'd use here is being both a chef and a restaurant critic. |
| 0:24.7 | I mean, if you were a restaurant critic, but you'd never ever been into a kitchen, |
| 0:28.6 | I don't think you'd really have an idea of how the dish was put together. And if you're a chef |
| 0:32.6 | and you go to other great restaurants, you're going to get a lot of ideas. So we get ideas from our third party managers and how to construct a portfolio, what kind of |
| 0:43.3 | stocks to look at, but the fundamental work that we do on stocks ourselves gives us a much |
| 0:49.3 | better idea when we're looking at somebody else's bump. |
| 0:53.3 | Imagine spending an hour with the world's greatest traders |
| 0:57.0 | imagine learning from their experiences, their successes and their failures |
| 1:02.0 | imagine no more |
| 1:03.0 | welcome to top traders unplugged the place where you can learn from the best hedge fund managers in the world |
| 1:10.0 | so you can take your |
| 1:10.8 | manager, due diligence, or investment career to the next level. |
| 1:14.6 | Before we begin today's conversation, remember to keep two things in mind. |
| 1:18.6 | All the discussion we'll have about investment performance is about the past, and past |
| 1:22.8 | performance does not guarantee or even infer anything about future performance. |
| 1:27.3 | Also understand that there's a significant risk of financial loss with all investment strategies, |
| 1:31.6 | and you need to request and understand the specific risks from the investment manager about their product |
| 1:37.0 | before you make investment decisions. |
| 1:39.5 | Here's your host, veteran hedge fund manager, Nealz Kostrup Larson. |
| 1:48.5 | Thank you. host, veteran hedge fund manager, Niels Kostrup Larson. For me, the best part of my podcasting journey has been the opportunity to speak to a huge |
| 1:53.8 | range of extraordinary investors from all around the world. In this series, I have invited |
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