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🗓️ 18 March 2020
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We discuss The Curious Investor podcast episode on Systematic vs Discretionary Investing.
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0:00.0 | That's interesting. And actually speaking about since we often refer back to AQR and their content, |
0:08.7 | and they do produce a lot of great content, I did hear their latest podcast episode, which was |
0:14.9 | actually the debate about systematic versus discretionary trading. And I thought that was a |
0:20.8 | fascinating conversation. And I think that was a fascinating conversation. And I think |
0:23.5 | that the key takeaways were really, to a large extent, was really how, and I think they had the |
0:29.6 | founder of Maverick, one of the largest hedge funds on the show as well. And he basically said, |
0:34.2 | you know, my analyst, they may only have two or three positions. They only follow two or three companies. |
0:38.6 | They need to get to know them, you know, better than the CEO and so on and so forth. |
0:43.5 | And of course, AQR comes in and say, well, you know, we do the complete opposite. |
0:47.2 | I mean, we diversify as much as we possibly can. |
0:51.5 | And and and and, but what they, what, what was interesting about it, they had done some kind of large study on performance |
0:57.6 | and this, I think, will surprise people. So their conclusion was that both type of strategies, |
1:04.4 | if you look at a large universe of discretionary managers and systematic managers, to a large |
1:09.5 | extent over different timeframes, the performance |
1:12.8 | was not that different. |
1:15.3 | But what people may be surprised about to know is that the systematic guys had much less risk. |
1:23.4 | And I thought that was interesting because I think a lot of people believe that when you have a human person doing it in the background, that there should be less risk on that side and systems will end up being much more risky. |
1:37.1 | But in fact, the conclusion was the complete opposite. |
1:39.7 | So more or less same return, but the systematic guys did it with less risk. |
1:43.9 | And therefore, I guess you could say that the risk adjuster returns were higher. |
1:48.7 | And so I thought that was interesting. |
1:51.9 | Yeah, the systems are objective that are rule-based. |
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