TTU57: Why The Market Environment Looks Exciting For CTAs ft. Tim Pickering of Auspice Capital Advisors
Top Traders Unplugged
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
4.8 • 712 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2015
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Our next year-in-review is from a recent guest who discusses the roller coaster feel to 2014, and why it was a good year for the CTA industry. He talks about what his firm learned from 2014 and why he is very excited about this year.
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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
- The ups and downs of 2014 from Tim’s perspective.
- What markets contributed most for his firm during the year.
- What markets he wished he did better in for 2014 and what he learned from those market shifts.
- The kinds of strategies they trade and what stood out as working well.
- What big worlds events are visualized in the markets and how they affect the strategies.
- How Auspice grew in 2014 and what were the drivers of that growth.
- What changed in their research process in 2014.
- Why Tim is very excited about the market environment in 2015.
- Why he wants to make sure investors sign up with his firm for the right reasons, not just chasing returns.
- What caused 2014 to be the biggest client acquisition year ever for Auspice Capital.
- What Auspice has planned for 2015.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | One of the things we really try to focus on with clients is that, look, don't pigeonhole |
| 0:08.0 | CTAs as only making money when there is a financial crisis or when there is a big equity |
| 0:17.0 | sell-off, this sort of crisis alpha type concept. at the end of the day, CTA and just quantitative |
| 0:24.4 | agnostic trading in general is going to take advantage of market movements, no matter what the |
| 0:31.5 | reason, no matter what the driver. |
| 0:33.5 | And in 2014, we got the opportunity to prove that. |
| 0:40.3 | Hi, this is Tim Pickering, founder and president of Auspice Capital, |
| 0:44.3 | and you're listening to my year in review on Top Traders Unplugged. |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine spending an hour with the world's greatest traders. |
| 0:51.3 | Imagine learning from their experiences, their successes, |
| 0:54.8 | and their failures. Imagine no more. Welcome to Top Traders Unplugged, the place where you can |
| 1:01.4 | learn from the best hedge fund managers in the world so you can take your manager due diligence |
| 1:06.1 | or investment career to the next level. Here's your host, veteran hedge fund manager, Niels Kastrop Larson. |
| 1:20.5 | Welcome back, Tim, for this review of 2014, where we look at the big events from the point |
| 1:26.4 | of view of your trading strategy. |
| 1:28.3 | I want to explore both the ups and the downs as well as the big takeaway from what can only be described as a great year for systematic trading strategies in general. |
| 1:38.3 | But as you know, because you're systematic in your trading, it doesn't mean necessarily that your strategy deals with |
| 1:44.8 | the market events in a similar way. |
| 1:46.7 | So it'll be very interesting to hear how you found 2014. |
| 1:51.9 | So let's just jump into it and tell me from your perspective, how did the year evolve, |
| 1:58.1 | both for your firm and for your strategy? |
| 2:02.4 | Yeah, so thanks for the opportunity. |
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