RT15: Avoiding unrealistic expectations in Crypto ft. Jennifer Sunu, Arthur Bell & JP Bruynes – 2of2

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today Niels continues his conversation with Jennifer Sunu, who is the director of compliance at the NFA, Arthur Bell, CPA and managing member of Bell Tower LLC, and JP Bruynes, who is a partner at the law firm Akin Gump.

Listen in to today’s episode as we focus on how regulators are helping and sometimes hurting managers and clients, the importance of cyber security as a CTA, the way that cryptocurrencies have changed the way we trade, some of the best things that have happened to managed futures over the last twenty years, and how the market has been affected.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

The dangers of over-regulation
What we can learn from blow-ups at the manager level and how to avoid them in the future
Why investors need to do their due diligence to avoid fraud
What the NFA considers in reviewing educational and promotional materials
How to ensure your promotional material is meeting NFA guidelines
Why pundits on news shows are allowed to make predictions on markets that may be just an educated guess
The importance of cyber security and how to you can protect yourself
What impact cryptocurrencies may have on futures markets
How regulators are working to help clients avoid unrealistic expectations in cryptocurrencies
The best things that have happened to managed futures in the last twenty years
What has changed regarding the Volcker rule in the past few years
How flat fee products are changing the industry
Why we need to worry about the “race to zero”

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0:00.0	Imagine spending an hour with the world's greatest traders.
0:05.0	Imagine learning from their experiences, their successes, and their failures.
0:09.0	Imagine no more.
0:11.0	Welcome to Top Traders Roundtable, the place where you can learn from the best hedge fund managers and investors in the world,
0:18.0	so you can take your manager due diligence or investment career
0:22.0	to the next level. Before we begin today's conversation, remember to keep two things in mind.
0:27.2	All the discussion that will have about investment performance is about the past, and past
0:31.4	performance does not guarantee or even infer anything about future performance. Also understand
0:36.6	that there's a significant risk of
0:38.2	financial loss with all investment strategies, and you need to request and understand the
0:42.8	specific risks from the investment manager about their products before you make investment
0:47.2	decisions. Now here's your host, veteran hedge fund manager, Nealz Kostrup Larson.
0:56.0	Welcome back to Top Traders Roundtable, a podcast series on Manish Futures, brought to you by
1:02.0	CME group where I continue my conversation with Jennifer Suno, who is the Director of Compliance
1:07.9	at the NFA, Arthur Bell, CPA and managing member of Bell Tower LLC,
1:14.4	and J.P. Bruins, who is a partner at the law firm Akin Gop.
1:37.2	Jennifer, I might want to hear your perspective a little bit on something that is very related, but slightly, phrase slightly differently.
1:45.5	And that is, so I have interviewed many of the largest managers in the CTA space in the past four years.
1:52.1	And what's interesting to me, actually, regardless of size, a lot of them, when I ask them a little bit about sort of what's the opportunities or the dangers, you see for the industry
1:56.4	as a whole, there I say, they mention the word regulation. Very often probably is the number one answer.
2:03.5	That'd probably be my number one answer too. Okay, okay, good. So I just wanted to ask you whether you kind of
2:11.4	recognize, I mean, we all think it's fair and it's good and it is. But is there a danger that regulation
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