TTU56: How to Educate Your Clients on Managed Futures ft. Karsten Schroeder of Amplitude Capital
Top Traders Unplugged
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
4.8 • 712 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2015
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this 2014 year-in-review, Karsten Shroeder looks at the CTA industry and give some advice on how to look at 2014 with a rational and objective eye. He also has insights into how 2015 will be for the CTA industry and how to educate more clients to the advantages of managed futures.
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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
- How the year evolved for Amplitude and it’s strategies.
- How the CTA industry did in 2014 in Karsten’s opinion.
- What models did well last year.
- How hard it is to shape models and make guesses based on world events that affect the markets.
- What Karsten learned from 2014.
- How they have increased their research team.
- Why his firm welcomes divergence in the markets.
- Why educating clients is very important.
- What diversification can do for clients in their portfolios.
- Why not to use 2014 as a reference point and say that this markets new returns for CTAs.
- What Karsten wishes for 2015.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you would have asked people at the end of 2013 what the most favorite strategies are, nobody would have put CTA on position one. |
| 0:12.5 | And I mean, you can look at these polls. |
| 0:14.9 | You know, you tend to favor things that have done very well in the recent periods. |
| 0:19.7 | And we all know that there will be some |
| 0:22.0 | level of meanery version of returns when it comes to these kind of things because otherwise |
| 0:26.6 | it would just mean that one strategy is notoriously superior to another one which I don't think |
| 0:31.5 | it is. |
| 0:37.0 | My name is Carson Schroeder. I'm the CEO of Amplitude Capital and you are listening to my |
| 0:42.5 | year-end review on Top Traders Unplugged. Imagine spending an hour with the world's greatest |
| 0:48.1 | traders. Imagine learning from their experiences, their successes, their successes, and their failures. |
| 0:53.6 | Imagine no more. |
| 0:55.4 | Welcome to Top Traders Unplugged, |
| 0:57.5 | the place where you can learn from the best hedge fund managers in the world |
| 1:00.9 | so you can take your manager due diligence or investment career to the next level. |
| 1:06.2 | Here's your host, veteran hedge fund manager, Niels Kastrop Larson. |
| 1:17.9 | Thank you. Host, veteran hedge fund manager, Niels Kastrop Larson. Carson, welcome back for this review of 2014, where we look at the big events from the point |
| 1:24.3 | of view of your trading strategy. |
| 1:26.7 | I want to explore both the ups and the downs, |
| 1:29.5 | as well as the big takeaway from what can only be described as a great year for systematic |
| 1:34.7 | trading strategies in general. But as we know, just because you're systematic in your training, |
| 1:40.8 | it doesn't mean necessarily that your strategy deals with the market events |
| 1:44.5 | in a similar way. But I want to just jump into it straight away, Karsten. So tell me about 2014 from |
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