Ep. 596: Rob Arnott Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Rob Arnott, an entrepreneur, author, investor, and writer. He serves as Chairman and CEO of Research Affiliates LLC. advising on over $160 billion dollars in institutional investment assets. Rob is one of the worlds preeminent voices on investment strategy. Rob has been with quantitative investing since it’s inception in the 70’s. With the rise in computer capabilities, quant traders were able to start to make a name for themselves in the trading community.

The topic is quantitative investing.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

An addiction to complexity
Fundamental indexing
Momentum trading
How to use valuation
Benchmarks
Diversification
Modern finance
Weighting 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.

To start? I’d like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/

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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.
0:33.3	My guest today is Rob Arnott.
0:35.8	He's an American entrepreneur, investor, editor, and writer who focuses on articles about quantitative investing.
0:43.9	He also serves as chairman and chief executive officer of research affiliates LLC, which advises on over $160 billion in institutional investment assets.
0:58.4	Rob has also served as a visiting professor of finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management
1:03.4	on the editorial board of the Journal of Portfolio Management and advised,
1:09.5	the Product Advisory Board of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board
1:13.3	Options Exchange. I aim to have wide diversity on this show. Now, of course, as a guy involved
1:22.3	in trading books, that's where I start. Now, anyone who listens knows that I'm willing to go in a multitude of directions on this show.
1:33.3	But what I like is clean thinking, clear thinking, reasoned thinking.
1:39.5	And that always brings me back to trading to investments.
1:44.2	I'm very fortunate today to have one of the world's preeminent voices on good investment strategy on this show.
1:54.5	I hope you enjoy this conversation with Rob Arnott.
2:10.7	You've got this great title that the average person still kind of thinks, what does that mean?
2:11.4	A quant.
2:12.5	Now a quant in the investing world, a quant in the finance world.
2:16.5	But take me back in time. I mean, I've seen
2:18.5	you say that this is the direction you wanted to go as a young man. Really, you had a couple
2:22.2	directions I've seen you said you wanted to go. But take me back in time to a young man. Who were
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