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Top Traders Unplugged

SI364: What makes an Alternative Investment Truly Valuable? ft. Moritz Seibert

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8670 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

What makes an alternative investment truly valuable? In this episode, Moritz Siebert joins Niels Kaastrup-Larsen for a conversation that moves past market moves and into the core design of systematic strategies. They explore what diversification really means, why manager size shapes more than just capacity, and how incentives - both fees and institutional expectations - quietly reshape the industry. From carbon markets and copper dislocations to volatility suppression and position sizing, this is an episode about alignment: between strategy and structure, manager and mandate, risk and resilience. At a time when most portfolios still rely on the familiar, this is a case for what’s missing.

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Episode TimeStamps:

01:34 - What has caught our attention recently?

06:26 - Industry performance update

13:20 - Building the perfect portfolio composition

17:18 - Insights on carbon markets

21:39 - Should we start to rethink how we approach markets?

28:54 - Removing complexities from a trend system

34:02 - The key aspects of designing a trend system

47:27 - More diversified = more risk?

49:00 - What is the most Valuable Alternative Investment?

57:50 - Is trend...

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.

0:26.3

Welcome and welcome back to this week's edition of the Systematic Investor Series,

0:28.6

Will Mort Sebert and I, Neil's Castro Blasner,

0:32.8

where each week we take the pulse of the global market through the lens of our rules-based investor.

0:36.3

And let me also say a warm welcome if today is the first time you're joining us,

0:41.5

and if someone who cares about you and your portfolio recommended that you tune into the podcast,

0:45.9

I want to say a big thank you for sharing this episode with your friends and colleagues.

0:47.8

It really does mean a lot to us.

0:50.6

Moritz, it's great to be back with you this week.

0:59.3

It's been a little while since we've done one of these systematic investor conversation. You were one of the founding co-hosts of this particular series many,

1:04.5

many moons ago. So I've been looking forward to this. How are you doing? Likewise, Neels,

1:09.4

thank you very much for inviting me. It's great to be back as a guest. I'm still one of your co-hosts with the open interest. You are indeed, yes. I'm really looking forward to that and chatting about all things that,

1:15.8

you know, you and I both find interesting. Yes, exactly. We're going to talk about some,

1:20.9

you know, usual wide-ranging topics relating to trend following. We're going to be talking about

1:25.7

a paper that the company I work with Don Capital

1:28.5

put out last week. So there's going to be a little bit for everyone, I think. But of course,

1:34.3

what I always like to start out with is something completely different. And that's just to

1:38.6

see what's going on in your, when you don't look at markets and you're not looking at what the algos are doing,

1:46.1

what else has been on your radar lately?

1:49.0

Yeah, we're on vacation at the moment, so we're pretty much dialed back from things.

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