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🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Get ready for an engaging conversation with Bruno Gmür, the Founder and CIO of Quantica Capital, as we explore their unique approach to systematic diversified trend following. Join us as we dive into the world of relative trend following and why volatility isn't always the right measure of risk. Bruno shares his insights on the challenges of estimating covariance matrices and expected returns during times of crisis, and how to create robust models to mitigate risk and prepare for market shocks. We'll also discuss why Quantica Capital no longer uses the term "crisis alpha" to promote their strategy and why trend following is much more complex than it may seem. Don't miss our discussion on the relationship between market liquidity and volatility as well as many more topics in this wide-ranging conversation.
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Episode Timestamps:
02:46 - Introduction to Quantica Capital
05:04 - Their investment philosophy
12:31 - What makes them unique?
17:09 - Reacting to trends
19:43 - Why not do it the easy way?
23:33 - Looking Sharpe
30:34 - When Correlations go to "1"
35:12 - Dealing with shocks
39:02 - The measurement methodologies
43:14 - The role of correlation
46:38 - Good research and potential pitfalls
53:09 - Important...
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0:00.0 | Still, not trend following, as we all know, is a very painful strategy because most of the time you can be underwater. |
0:13.0 | And you can have periods of one, two, three years that you are underwater which makes managing and also from an investor |
0:24.2 | type view makes it very difficult. |
0:27.4 | And then you start questioning your approach. |
0:30.9 | You are maybe forced by investors to change things. |
0:35.4 | Although on the long-term view, nothing has changed. |
0:38.3 | This is, I think, the big challenge everyone in our industry has. |
0:44.3 | But on the other hand, we also see a lot of resilience in our industry, |
0:48.3 | because most of the competition and on the successful trend following CTS, they are around for 15, 20, 30, 40 years. |
0:59.6 | Imagine spending an hour with the world's greatest traders. Imagine learning from their |
1:04.7 | experiences, their successes, and their failures. Imagine no more. Welcome to Top Traders Unplugged, the place where you can learn |
1:13.6 | from the best hedge fund managers in the world so you can take your manager, due diligence, |
1:18.2 | or investment career to the next level. Before we begin today's conversation, remember to |
1:23.2 | keep two things in mind. All the discussion we'll have about investment performance is about the past, |
1:28.4 | and past performance does not guarantee or even infer anything about future performance. Also understand |
1:34.1 | that there's a significant risk of financial loss with all investment strategies, and you need to |
1:38.6 | request and understand the specific risks from the investment manager about their product |
1:43.1 | before you make investment decisions. |
1:45.6 | Here's your host, veteran hedge fund manager, Niels Kostrup Larson. |
1:54.6 | Hey everyone and welcome to another edition of Top Traders on Plog, where today Alan Don and I are |
1:59.6 | joined by Bruno Gmure, founder and CIO of Quantica Capital, as part of our min on plot, where today Alan Don and I are joined by Bruno Gmure, founder and |
2:01.7 | CIO of Quantica Capital, as part of our miniseries focusing on the one investment strategy |
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