SI185: Trend Following in a De-Globalised World

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Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Mark Rzepczynski joins me in this week’s episode, to discuss strategies for rebalancing your portfolio, the coming de-globalisation and its impact on Trend Following, especially in light of events in Ukraine, the Hedger’s dilemma and how the LME may have lost the trust of its clients, divergence and how it might cause disruption in markets, what Mark learned from working with Ned Johnson III at Fidelity, and how the principle of Kaizen can be applied to trend following.

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In this episode, we discuss:

Different strategies for rebalancing your portfolio
How de-globalisation can impact Trend Following
The recent events in Nickel trading at the LME
How divergence might cause disruption in markets,
How the Japanese philosophy, Kaizen, can be applied to trend following

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Episode TimeStamps:

00:00 - Intro

02:10 - Market recap

04:41 - What has caught Mark’s attention recently?

13:46 - Overview of the week

18:28 - Q1, Brett: Any thoughts on rebalancing based on trending performance?

30:45 - Trend Following, globalization and the Dark Ages

47:15 - What happened at LME?

59:18 - Fidelity, Edward Johnson and the Kaizen philosophy

01:14:29 - Update on performance

Resources discussed in this Episode:

Link: Edward ‘Ned’ Johnson,...

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're about to join Neil's Kostrup Larson on a raw and honest journey into the world of systematic
0:06.7	investing and learn about the most dependable and consistent yet often overlooked investment strategy.
0:13.2	Welcome to the Systematic Investor Series.
0:27.2	Welcome and welcome back to this week's edition of the Systematic Investor series with Mark Resensky and I, Neil's Castro-Larsen, where each week we take the pulse of the global
0:32.5	market through the lens of a rules-based investor.
0:35.0	For those of you who are regular listener, this podcast series is all about voicing our differences
0:39.4	on the one topic that brings us together,
0:41.9	namely systematic investing,
0:43.8	using the often overlooked but very robust strategy of trend following.
0:48.6	We hope that today's episode
0:49.9	will trigger your curiosity to learn more
0:52.0	by diving into the back catalog
0:54.1	and listen to all of the past episodes that you may have missed,
0:57.3	like last week's episode with Alan,
0:59.6	where we discussed the very thing about what actually causes trends in the markets,
1:05.1	whether it's too late to invest in trend following, given the recent run,
1:08.8	and its role within risk mitigation buckets at some of the
1:12.9	largest pension funds in the US. So if you miss that one, I suddenly invite you to go back and
1:18.8	listen to this episode. Mark, always great to be back with you and another eventful week.
1:25.7	So lots of things to talk about and a very busy month, of course,
1:29.2	for anyone involved in the financial markets. How are you doing? How are things where you are?
1:35.8	Very good. It's been a long time, or it seems like, it's only been a month, it seems like a long time.
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