Ep. 281: Vineer Bhansali Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2014
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Vineer Bhansali, the managing director and portfolio manager at PIMCO. His most recent book is "Tail Risk Hedging". He has 24 years of investment experience and holds a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics from Harvard University.
The topic is Trend Following.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- "Trend Following Through The Rates Cycle"
- Trend following in the classical sense
- How trend following started to become part of the discussion at PIMCO
- Introducing new ideas to PIMCO, corporate culture, and to clients
- The three hypotheses tested in "Trend Following Through The Rates Cycle"
- Currency trading and trend following returns
- Why larger trend following shops may have trouble getting into smaller markets
- Trend following across a diversified portfolio and classical trend following approaches
- Connecting Bhansali's hobbies to the quantitative world
- Structure and thinking in terms of code
- Imagining and building simulations
- Being distribution aware
- Why being at all-time highs is not the time to feel satisfied
Jump in!
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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. |
| 0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.0 | Before I jump into my guest today, a little housekeeping. |
| 0:37.4 | If you like this podcast, a little housekeeping. |
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| 1:28.2 | Today in the show I have Veneer Pensali. |
| 1:31.2 | Veneer's with Pimpco. |
| 1:32.6 | He's got a great white paper out called Tren Following Through the Rates Cycle. |
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