SI283: How to Beat the Benchmarks ft. Richard Brennan

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Come along for this fascinating conversation with Richard Brennan, where we dive into how to the beat the benchmarks as a manager. We discuss the different factors that goes into achieving great performance and why trend following has greater potential return than other alternative investment strategies, why bigger and newer is not always better in terms of complex adaptive systems, why it is important to be aware of system diversification and much more.

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Episode TimeStamps:

01:07 - What has caught our attention recently?

02:33 - What will 2024 bring for trend following?

07:11 - Inflation? Look to the Tooth Fairy

08:33 - Industry performance update

11:34 - Q1, Mark: Should trend followers size long and short positions the same?

17:20 - Outperforming the benchmarks

36:39 - The "secrets" of achieving great performance

44:42 - Is bigger always better?

52:43 - The importance of system diversification

01:03:45 - Working out the optimal parameters

01:08:14 - Crazy times in the cocoa market

01:09:41 - Thanks for listening

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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.
0:26.6	Welcome and welcome back to this week's edition of the Systematic Investor Series with Richard Brennan and I, Neil's Castoblastin, where each week we take the pulse of the global market
0:30.9	through the lens of a rules-based investor. Rich, it is wonderful to be back with you this week.
0:36.2	How are things down under in the nice summer warm weather?
0:40.0	Yes, very good, Niels.
0:41.7	The occasional cyclone comes and visits us,
0:44.4	and it is very balmy hot weather at the moment,
0:48.3	so the fans are all working over time,
0:51.0	but it's quite pleasant down here.
0:53.5	If you want a touch of sun, come over and
0:55.7	visit us. Yes, well, we certainly would like some sun at this time of the year, but I'm not sure
1:03.7	I can quite make it to Australia right now. Anyways, another time, I'm sure. We do have a very full plate today, to say the least, in terms of things that
1:14.9	we haven't really talked about a lot, which I find it very interesting. You would think after
1:20.2	all these episodes and conversation, we would have covered everything. I think these topics
1:24.2	that we found, and in particular you found, are actually a little bit different.
1:27.6	So I'm excited about that.
1:29.1	But before we get into all of this, I'm always curious because there is usually a couple
1:33.7	of months in between we speak.
1:35.5	Kind of what's been on your radar?
1:37.0	What have you come across anything interesting from our industry or wherever?
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