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BO32: Trend Following: The Perfect Hedge, or the Perfect Portfolio?

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8670 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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We discuss why we believe that Trend Following could rightly be viewed as the Perfect Portfolio, and sometimes the Perfect Hedge.

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0:00.0

But I agree with you, Jared, in general, from what you were saying before. I mean, I think it is, I wonder, I mean, is it just because we talk about our industry the way we do? I mean, is it what we call ourselves on Manus futures, trend followers? I mean, I know trend following is a good word because that's what we do, but

0:22.2

I'm sure you remember that there were times when people were kind of changing the narrative around

0:28.6

what they were doing. Certainly in the 90s when there weren't, when CTAs weren't, we weren't doing

0:33.8

so well back in 94 and people were more, or maybe we should call ourselves

0:37.5

a hedge fund and then they were talking about that and then they went back to the term CTA.

0:43.1

And I wonder, I mean, what if we were just talking about what we do is a long short portfolio.

0:50.8

You know, long short equity seems to be pretty popular and maybe we're just long short futures.

0:56.0

But I agree with Jerry. I mean, what we do should be applied to a much larger part of the portfolio.

1:03.0

And we shouldn't be fighting over, can we get into a 5% allocation?

1:08.0

And then people expect us to do any meaningful protection or non-correlation

1:14.5

for the 95%.

1:16.5

I mean, it's kind of ridiculous really.

1:19.6

And this goes back to this point about, you know, are people over-diversifying to some extent

1:26.2

since they're only willing to put 5% allocation in this space?

1:30.3

I don't know. Any thoughts?

1:32.3

A lot of thoughts.

1:34.3

One of the things that I find is that in our mutual fund, we are used by other RIAs who are trend following the equities and bonds for their clients.

1:48.5

They allocate 5 or 10% to Chesapeake for the alt piece, which is silly.

1:54.0

You know, I mean, here I am stuck with 5 or 10%.

1:58.1

And these young guys starting up a business,

2:01.2

you know, trend following is good.

2:02.7

It's accessible.

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