Ep. 371: Alexander Ineichen Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Alexander Ineichen, the founder of Ineichen Research and Management AG, an independent research firm established in October 2009 focusing on investment themes related to nowcasting and risk management. Alexander started his financial career in derivatives brokerage and origination of risk management products at Swiss Bank Corporation in 1988.
The topics are his books Absolute Returns: The Risk and Opportunities of Hedge Fund Investing and Asymmetric Returns: The Future of Active Asset Management.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Seeing through the market forecasting flash
- The importance of "check box" methodology
- Simplification as sophistication
- The concept of nowcasting
- Understanding the whole, so you know what can be eliminated
- Learning to watch for trend reversals
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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. |
| 0:21.1 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.1 | My guest today is Alexander Anikin. |
| 0:36.3 | He's the author of many books, absolute returns, asymmetric returns. |
| 0:43.4 | He has a monthly publication as well. |
| 0:45.9 | Definitely worth checking out. |
| 0:47.1 | There are some sample PDFs that you can find in Google advanced search and search for PDF documents only. |
| 0:55.2 | There are some of them out there, and you can check out what he does. |
| 0:58.8 | For me personally, going back and thinking to my first book, |
| 1:03.3 | I was definitely influenced by Alexander's writings. |
| 1:06.3 | He was putting out some of the most clear, concise information |
| 1:09.5 | about hedge funds and strategies in the late 90s, the early 2000s, and he's never stopped. |
| 1:17.1 | My first conversation with Alexander, I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:27.3 | Do you speak Mandarin already? |
| 1:29.8 | No, I don't. |
| 1:31.3 | And that's, you know, what's hard is when you're, when you come here, I mean, I'm not, I mean, I'm over 40s, so I'm not really in the, the malleable young mind of learning languages. |
| 1:43.8 | So I, I feel like with so much on my plate, |
| 1:46.1 | I would really have to just immerse myself. I would have to take everything off my plate |
| 1:50.4 | and immerse myself and just be like, okay, I'm going to die if I don't learn to speak the language. |
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