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🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Today, we are delighted to be joined by Anthony Todd, Co-Founder & CEO of Aspect Capital, for an insightful discussion on the role of systematic trading and trend following in today’s economy. We also discuss what has driven Aspect Capital’s shift towards developing multiple strategies and how they guide their clients to make better investment decisions, whether the trend following industry should be concerned about replication strategies and how allocations are funded today. Lastly, we discuss how Aspect Capital uses AI in their work and how systematic trading has changed as a whole with the rise of AI, what Todd is most excited and concerned about in 2024 and much more.
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Episode Timestamps:
02:24 - Introduction to Anthony Todd and Aspect Capital
05:43 - A global macro perspective
09:45 - How has the industry evolved?
13:51 - Are investors under-allocated to trend?
17:11 - Trend following - a return enhancer?
20:37 - The correlation between stocks and bonds
25:27 - The path to offering multible strategies
29:47 - Balancing choices and guiding clients and investors
33:26 - Are CTAs threatened by
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0:00.0 | I think what we're going to see, Alan, is a redistribution of that asset allocation within those underlying kind of portfolios. |
0:15.0 | Because if you structure your portfolio on the basis that CTAs have pretty much no long-term positive drift, but are just there for |
0:21.2 | crisis alpha, you're going to structure your portfolio one way. If you actually look at it on |
0:25.1 | the basis of, well, hold on second, actually they have significant positive, no long-term drifts, |
0:29.0 | significant positive sharp, and they provide crisis alpha, you're going to build your CRO or |
0:33.1 | RMS portfolio in a different way. So that's why I think the allocation will come from. |
0:39.8 | Imagine spending an hour with the world's greatest traders. Imagine learning from their |
0:44.7 | experiences, their successes, and their failures. Imagine no more. Welcome to Top Traders Unplugged, |
0:52.3 | the place where you can learn from the best hedge fund managers |
0:55.1 | in the world so you can take your manager due diligence or investment career to the next level. |
1:00.7 | Before we begin today's conversation, remember to keep two things in mind. |
1:04.7 | All the discussion we'll have about investment performance is about the past, |
1:08.1 | and past performance does not guarantee or even infer anything |
1:11.8 | about future performance. |
1:13.4 | Also understand that there's a significant risk of financial loss with all investment strategies, |
1:17.7 | and you need to request and understand the specific risks from the investment manager |
1:22.3 | about their product before you make investment decisions. |
1:25.5 | Here's your host, veteran hedge fund manager, Niels Kostrup Larson. |
1:35.3 | Hey, everyone, and welcome to another edition of our Top Traders Unplogged series, |
1:39.5 | where today Alan Dunn and I are joined by Anthony Todd, co-founder and CEO of Aspect Capital, |
1:45.4 | as part of our conversations with industry leaders in the world of managed futures, |
1:49.9 | and with a bit of a bias, of course, towards trend following. |
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