RT19: Who actually learned from the last financial crisis? ft. Andrew Lo & Sol Waksman – 2of2

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Today Niels Kaastrup-Larsen continues his conversation with Andrew Lo, the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Sol Waksman, the Founder and President of BarclayHedge, Ltd. Listen in to learn the effects of politics in the financial markets and how trend following fits in, the state of cryptocurrency in the current market, and the advice our guests have for investors and their future.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

Why relatively so few investors have added managed futures and trend following to their portfolio, despite all the evidence
The lessons different groups of people can still learn from the economic crisis of 2008
How political uncertainty affects where investors put their money
What Sol sees as the constant lesson we should be learning from these periodic economic events
Why investors have a hard time grasping the advantages of the liquidity that trend following brings to investments
The present and future impact of artificial intelligence on the finance industry
Why Andrew believes the centralization to one cryptocurrency is inevitable
The advice Andrew and Sol have for investors to prepare for the future

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0:00.0	Imagine spending an hour with the world's greatest traders. Imagine learning from their experiences,
0:07.7	their successes, and their failures. Imagine no more. Welcome to Top Traders Roundtable,
0:14.4	the place where you can learn from the best hedge fund managers and investors in the world,
0:18.5	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 specific
0:43.2	risks from the investment manager about their products before you make investment decisions.
0:48.3	Now here's your host, veteran hedge fund manager, Nealz Kostrup Larson.
0:56.1	Welcome back to Top Traders Roundtable, a podcast series on managed futures brought to you by
1:01.8	CME Group, where I continue my conversation with Andrew Lowe, who is a professor at MIT's
1:08.4	Lone School of Management and director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial
1:13.0	Engineering, as well as the founder and since 2018 the chairman emeritus at Alpha Simplex
1:19.4	Group, and of course the most recent winner of the Manish Futures Pinnacle Awards.
1:25.0	I'm also joined by another industry veteran,
1:29.0	namely So Waxman,
1:32.4	who is the founder and president of Barclay Hedge.
1:43.1	So let me set up this question,
1:45.5	the same question more or less to you, Saul. And my question would be, you know, as far as I'm aware of, and you probably know this
1:50.8	even better than I do, but as far as I'm aware of, there's never been a white paper written
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