Ep. 525: Martin Bergin Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Martin “Marty” Bergin, the President and owner of DUNN Capital Management. Bergin began working with DUNN in 1997. He took over the day-to-day operations of the firm in 2007 and became owner in 2015 (Bill Dunn remains Chairman). DUNN has an outstanding track record that spans over 40 years. Bergin first met Dunn while he was tasked with doing an audit of the company over the course of 7 years. Once the audit was over, Dunn offered him a job.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Management fees
How the financial industry works
Systematic trend following strategies
Trading off of price data
The advantages of diversity in your portfolio

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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.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.3	That's my passion.
0:33.2	My guest today is Marty Bergen.
0:35.9	Marty is the president and owner of Dunn Capital.
0:39.3	Yes, that would be the Dunn Capital that is featured in my book trend following.
0:43.5	Bill Dunn is Chairman Emeritus and Marty took over the day-to-day operations of the firm in 2007 and became owner of the firm in 2015.
0:53.2	I love to look at the track record of Dunn Capital.
0:58.8	Their consistency, what they've been offering, has been very close to the same for over 40 years.
1:10.0	There's not too many people out there that have a consistent track record at their level of
1:15.8	performance for over 40 years.
1:18.9	If you can't learn something from this conversation, and it's a no-nonsense conversation,
1:24.7	I appreciate Marty bringing that to the table. But if you can't learn
1:28.5	something, I think you're possibly brain dead. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Marty
1:34.3	Bergen of Dun Capital. Marty, as I was thinking about our call today, I was actually thinking, and I know you're a sports guy.
1:50.6	I was thinking of the Patriots.
1:52.1	I was thinking of the New England Patriots.
1:53.9	And I know a little bit about how Belichick does things.
1:57.0	And he's kind of this internal guy where, you know, his, his defensive and offensive
2:02.7	coordinators kind of come up through the ranks. And I'm sure one day when Belichick decides to
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