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Top Traders Unplugged

SI158: The Secrets to Raising Capital ft. Mark Rzepczynski

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8670 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Mark Rzepczynski joins us today to discuss why people are as important as processes when investors are choosing funds, the factors that can predict future performance of a fund manager, how Trend Following often performs best when markets are highly correlated, some thoughts on portfolio construction and the various ways to measure risk, the importance of having a strong narrative when communicating what you do to allocators, the infamous ‘bandwagon effect’ among investors, how current AUM can often affect an investors decision to choose a fund, how capital allocators can improve their due diligence with Trend Following funds, and why investors like firms made up of a strong team rather than a strong single player.

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In this episode, we discuss:

  • How people appeal more to investors than trading systems alone
  • How to spot future star performers in advance
  • Unconventional approaches to market correlations
  • The importance of communication and presentation skills when communicating to clients
  • Why investors tend to copy their peers
  • Whether fund size matters to capital allocators
  • How strong teams are usually more sought after by institutional investors than single players

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0:00.0

You're about to join Jerry Parker, Maritz Siebert, and Neil's Kastrup Larson on their

0:06.3

raw and honest journey into the world of systematic investing and learn about the most

0:11.1

dependable and consistent yet often overlooked investment strategy.

0:15.1

Welcome to the Systematic Investor podcast series.

0:22.5

Welcome and welcome back to this week's edition of the systematic investors here with Mark

0:27.0

Resensky and I, Neil's Castle Blasen, where each week we take the pulse of the global

0:31.3

markets through the lens of a rules-based investor.

0:35.4

Now, for those of you who are regular listeners,

0:41.9

our conversations are intended to give you as much of the nurture and encouragement as the turtles got in the mid-1980s, as Jerry likes to put it.

0:46.5

And if you are new to the show, we hope that today's episode will trigger your curiosity

0:51.5

to learn more by diving into the back catalog and listen to

0:56.0

all of the past episodes that you may have missed like last week's episode, which was with Jerry,

1:02.2

which I think was one of the best we have done together, actually. It was very deep. We went

1:07.9

into a number of topics. And of course course Jerry talked about who is likely to be his

1:13.4

successor when it's time for him to hang up his boots. So if you miss that one, I do invite you to go

1:20.4

back and listen to it and as Jerry do, he actually relistened a couple of times to get all the nuances of what we discussed.

1:30.9

Now, Mark, it's great to be with you this week. How are you doing? And what's going on where you

1:37.2

are today? Good. The fall is starting. And I could feel that there's a certain amount of

1:43.6

tension among investors because

1:46.7

they're done with all their vacation, they're done with all their golf, Labor Day in the

1:50.8

United States is through. So that means that everybody's now figuring out what am I going to do

1:56.9

to set up for the end of the year. And so if you're a poor manager right now, I think that you're under scrutiny from

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