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Top Traders Unplugged

BO58: The Balance between Innovation, Evolution and Stickability

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8670 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Why clients would benefit from lock-up periods, and the difference between evolving your strategies or sticking with it.

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0:00.0

I had another tweet. I can't remember it, but it was something. It's got a lot of love, which was 10-year money. I'll tell you, I'll give you your money back in 10 years. And this was Howard Marks, I believe. And he said, honestly, you're doing your clients a favor if you just lock it up for 10 years.

0:22.0

And of course, everyone knows that, but it's hard to do.

0:27.1

There are some.

0:28.2

There's a couple of managers I've seen where they're starting to ask for a lockup,

0:34.6

even in a space closer to the CTA space.

0:40.0

And of course, we think initially so why are they doing that?

0:43.8

Are they going completely into illiquid stuff?

0:46.6

But maybe the truth is that actually it's a much better product for everyone to do that.

0:52.7

I was curious, Jerry, how do you balance innovation versus kind of change?

1:00.3

I mean, clients want us to innovate or investors want us to innovate.

1:04.6

They don't necessarily want us to change.

1:07.2

And as we talked about just before, we also don't want to, you know, try and over, be too clever

1:16.1

about what we look for in terms of research.

1:18.8

How do you balance all of that on your side?

1:22.1

I'm baffled by the things I see and read from other managers about evolving, thinking, coming to mind,

1:32.2

some of the interviews you yourself have done recently. And there's a huge emphasis on evolving,

1:38.1

and I just don't get it. I mean, I think that it's perfectly fine for that trend following underperforms for a long period.

1:48.0

It's going to always underperform.

1:49.4

There's nothing we can do about it or that it stops working.

1:52.7

I mean, these are perfectly acceptable explanations.

1:56.8

But I don't understand using less data, like let's just focus on less data. I think that's sort of

2:02.9

the definition of some of the types of evolving I've heard of. If the markets are changing and

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