RT25: Alpha decay in Short-Term strategies ft. John Fidler, Jonathan Miles & Christopher Vogt – 2of2

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, guest host Ranjan Bhaduri continues his conversation with John Fidler, Senior VP and Director of Alternative Investments at Commonwealth Bank and Trust, Christopher Vogt, Director of Equity Strategies at Margaret Cargill Philanthropies, and Jonathan Miles, Managing Director of Ascent Private Capital Management of U.S. Bank. Listen in as our guests talk about management fees and how they have changed over the past decade, the importance of constantly checking your assumptions, and what wisdom they would give to young up and coming investors.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

Why John and Jonathan don’t spend much time looking at short-term CTAs
How fee compression has changed management fees over the last decade
When our guests choose discretionary over systematic managers
The role of alternatives in a portfolio, and why Christopher doesn’t call them alternatives
Why Christopher urges people interested in the investment space to be cynical
Why in a world of complex models, John sees simplicity as a good thing
The most important decisions in Jonathan’s work, and why they aren’t necessarily financial decisions
Why many people’s view of model risk can hurt them and their investments
Why macro strategies will always remain strong

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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.
0:56.0	Welcome back to Top Traders Roundtable, a podcast series on Manish Futures brought to you by CME Group,
1:02.5	where our guest host today, Ranjan Padoury, continues his conversation with Jonathan Miles,
1:08.6	John Fiddler, and Christopher Vote,
1:11.2	where they discuss
1:12.2	how managed futures
1:13.1	should fit into
1:14.3	your portfolio allocation
1:15.6	and why you should
1:17.0	still believe in these strategies,
1:19.1	even if it's been
1:20.1	a few challenging years.
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