Ep. 1136: Nigol Koulajian Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Nigol Koulajian, the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Quest. Koulajian founded Quest in March 2001. He identified specific strategies using proprietary techniques that have been continuously enhanced over the past twenty-three years and became the basis for the growth of Quest. The firm, based in New York, manages $2.6 billion in assets and employs thirty-seven people as of December 2022. He started the NOK Foundation in 2002, which is committed to promoting the study and practice of yoga and meditation globally. He has acted as a board member of the Omega Institute and David Lynch Foundation.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Hedge fund industry perspective
Strategies
Risks associated
A long-term entrepreneurial perspective
Value at risk in the market
Sharpe ratio
Multiple tail risks in market cycles

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.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.4	My guest today is Nigel Collagian.
0:36.4	He is the guy that runs Quest Partners LLC.
0:40.4	His second appearance on the show.
0:43.5	Maybe this is the third, I'm not sure, but at least the second.
0:46.9	Neagle runs a fund.
0:48.1	He is a modeler.
0:49.2	He's a trend following guy.
0:51.2	He understands systems.
0:53.0	He's got a great perspective on the big macro view, but he understands tail risk.
0:59.0	And he understands where we are today.
1:01.0	Look, if you want steady returns, consistent returns, essentially fake returns, this is not a conversation
1:08.0	for you.
1:09.0	But if you have your eyes wide open and you want to learn
1:12.3	something, Neagle brings it. Without any further delay, let's jump right into my conversation today
1:17.8	with Neagle Collagian. I want to share with you a story that happened to me.
1:30.8	I was an event.
1:32.3	It was a typical event.
1:33.6	Many of these things that you've seen, a lot of hedge fund managers in the room, a lot of bankers
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