Ep. 1032: Russell Korgaonkar Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
Michael Covel
4.6 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Russell Korgaonkar, the Chief Investment Officer of Man AHL, with overall responsibility for investment and research. He is also a member of Man AHL’s management and investment committees. Russell holds a BA/MA (First Class) in Physics from the University of Oxford.
The topic is Trend Following.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Trend Following Strategy
- Trend following in the time of COVID-19
- Trend Following Firms
- Pokemon Card Analogy
- Understanding Trend Following
- Inflation Definition
- Risk Management
- Man AHL
- Trading Bitcoin
- Futures Markets
Jump in!
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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:26.6 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 1:01.6 | That's my passion. My guest today is Russell Corgown car. He is the CIO of Mann-A-H-L. For those of you that want to quickly find out about man, and this is not a promo, but just if you're not familiar with man, go to man.com. And also, for those of you that don't know, man is one of the pioneering trend following funds, firms, however you want to call them. |
| 1:11.2 | Russell is kind enough to follow my stream of consciousness today, my taking him all around the trend following and trading worlds. |
| 1:13.5 | We cover all kinds of territory. |
| 1:16.8 | I hope you enjoy without any further delay. |
| 1:19.5 | Let's jump right in with my guest today. |
| 1:21.1 | Russell Corgown car. Thank you. I want to know, I don't know if you can give me a month. |
| 1:36.0 | I know you can give me a year, I think. |
| 1:38.7 | When is the first moment that you maybe not understood trend following, but the first moment that you understood |
| 1:47.1 | about it or you became aware of it 20 plus years ago? I became aware of it 20 years ago, but when I |
| 1:56.0 | started my career, so I studied physics and university. I really didn't know what I wanted to do. |
| 2:01.8 | I kind of fell into this job doing quantitative trading and kind of coding these trading strategies. |
| 2:08.7 | I must admit, when I started, I was a cynic. But hold on, hold on. I'm not going to let you go |
| 2:14.1 | that far. I want to really get this down to a granular level. |
| 2:24.6 | Where were you? How old were you? Like, what was going on when you first had this moment that you came in contact with this world, so to speak? Well, that was after university. I knew very, very |
| 2:30.1 | little about it when I was ensconced in my world of studying physics. I guess I was about |
| 2:35.2 | 22. Was your first job with man? It was my first job. It was my first job. And I, you know, |
| 2:40.8 | at the time, and you're so little about it. They looked at my CV and they said, look, you've obviously |
| 2:45.2 | got half a brain, but do you know how to code? And I said, no, not really. They said, well, you got two weeks to learn. So I went off |
| 2:52.9 | and learned as best I could and obviously did a good enough job after two weeks that they kept me. |
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