SI345: From Chaos to Clarity: The Power of Systematic Investing ft. Nick Baltas
Top Traders Unplugged
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
4.8 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This episode is all about exploring the intricacies of market behavior, how trends shift, and what that means for our investment strategies. We’re having a serious chat about the impact of recent market fluctuations and how they influence our approaches to trend following. Together with Nick Baltas, we’ll touch on the dynamics of crowding in trades and how that shapes investor sentiment. So, grab your headphones and get ready for a straightforward, no-nonsense journey through the latest trends and insights in the investing world.
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Episode TimeStamps:
01:59 - What has caught our attention recently?
09:44 - We are entering an era of new market drivers
15:31 - Why gold might be overrated
17:34 - The challenges that investors are facing at the moment
21:26 - Pension funds - reasons for concern?
25:05 - Industry performance update
27:08 - How Baltas' models react to the current markets
30:46 - Industry performance numbers
32:57 - Q1, Tim: Should an allocator into trend following strategies keep holding on to the winners or switch between trend following strategies?
43:35 - Q1.1, Tim: Based on his models, where does Nick currently see crowded trades, and what is his assessment on crowdedness / positioning in equities where things have been particularly choppy?
47:15 - Q2, Dimitri: I’m curious whether Nick sees banks allocating more resources to systematic strategies in credit over the...
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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 investing and learn about the most dependable and consistent yet often overlooked investment strategy. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to the Systematic Investor Series. |
| 0:27.9 | Welcome or welcome back to this edition of the Systematic Investor series with Nick Bolters and I, |
| 0:32.1 | Niels Karz Rastrolasten, where you tweak, we take the polls of the global markets through the lens of a rules-based investor. And let me just say, a very warm welcome if today is the first time joining us. |
| 0:38.1 | And if someone who cares about you and your portfolio recommended that you should tune into the podcast, |
| 0:43.7 | I would like to say a big thank you for sharing this episode with your friends and colleagues. |
| 0:48.5 | It really does mean a lot to us. |
| 0:51.2 | Nick, it is wonderful to be back with you this week. Another interesting week. It's |
| 0:55.9 | been a little while. Have you been? I'm glad to be back, Niels. It feels like a century ago that |
| 1:01.2 | we last spoke and it's only like maybe a month or two. I've been doing well. I think clearly |
| 1:07.2 | markets are keeping us busy and try to take some some days off over over easter and |
| 1:12.1 | same thing like last august you know we just discussed before before we started the recording |
| 1:17.8 | i think i timed it perfectly well so next time i'm off i'll let you know maybe yes do some |
| 1:22.7 | futures right yeah yeah no absolutely keeping up up. That's the main thing. |
| 1:27.7 | I had some travels earlier in Q1. That's typically the travel season seeing investors. |
| 1:33.5 | It goes on as well in Q2. So maybe a couple of things that we can reflect upon. |
| 1:37.8 | But yeah, all very good. All very good. Keeping healthy. |
| 1:40.6 | Yes, exactly. That's the main thing. |
| 1:42.8 | Doing well, doing well. I just finished all my travels for now and |
| 1:45.9 | so yeah it's nice it's nice to be well it's good to be here although the markets obviously keeps |
| 1:53.7 | keeps you busy with answering a few extra questions that you normally wouldn't get but there we are |
| 1:59.7 | Nick we've got a pretty wide-ranging |
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