TTU84: Being Authentic & Transparent with Your Investors ft. Natasha Reeve-Gray of Altis Partners – 2of2

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In this second part of our conversation, Natasha dives into the details of the trading model and portfolio of Altis Partners, her firm. We discuss how they approach risk management, and how they’ve dealt with drawdowns over the years. She also gives her take on the future of the managed futures industry, what advice she would give to emerging firm managers, and other lessons she has learned along the way.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

About how Natasha and her team constructs their portfolio.
How their models are adaptive.
What their integrated risk approach does and how it works.
What she thinks the capacity is of the strategy that her firm has.
How she defines risk.
How correlations play a part in their portfolio.
Which sectors of the market do well with their model.
How she sets the expectations for what kinds of drawdowns they might have.
How to help investors with the emotional rollercoaster of drawdowns.
How the firm goes about doing research.
How to detect if a certain model stops working.
What lessons they have learned from all their years in business.
How success changes your mindset.
Why it’s good to have people to look up to.
Her biggest challenge facing her firm today.
What investors are not asking when at due diligence meetings with her firm.
Why a long term relationship with a client is important.
What advice she would give to emerging managers today.
Where she thinks the managed futures industry is going as a whole.

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Resources & Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Natasha recommends reading The Hard Thing About Hard Things, a book about building a business and entrepreneurship.
She also recommends Fortune’s Formula, by William Poundstone.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	We went into this meeting and the guy just didn't understand what it was that we were doing.
0:08.1	So we were sort of tying ourselves up in knots. And I just remember just remember,
0:11.2	Steve and I were in the room together and I just remember there was a moment where we just
0:14.0	looked at each other and thought, actually, why are we? What are we doing? Because we were
0:17.8	trying to placate and to help. And I actually remember it vividly.
0:21.6	I sort of smacked my book over where I'd been writing feverishly. And I said, well, I really don't think
0:26.2	this is for you because, you know, I don't feel that we're able to explain ourselves very well.
0:31.0	I want to mention that today's podcast is brought to you by Eurex Exchange. And if you go to their website, you can find out how
0:39.7	volatility derivatives can help you manage your equity portfolio. This is Natasha Reeb-Gray,
0:46.0	co-founder of Altus Partners, and you are listening to Top Traders Unplugged. Welcome back to
0:50.8	Top Traders Unplugged, where the best traders in the world come to share their experiences, their successes, and their failures.
0:57.6	Let's rejoin the conversation with your host, veteran hedge fund manager, Niels Kastro Plarsen. our trend following at least 50, 60%.
1:15.7	Okay, okay.
1:17.0	Now, you have another thing, and we've already talked a little bit about it,
1:19.9	but I wrote it down as a point I wanted to dive into a little bit more.
1:22.7	And that's the whole thing about portfolio construction,
1:26.1	which really is a very important point,
1:28.6	but often gets maybe overlooked when people talk about simple entries, simple exits, and
1:34.3	you know, a basic position sizing in between.
1:39.1	You mentioned the systems are adaptive.
1:42.0	So one of the things that I was wondering, and that is within, say,
1:47.2	trend following, that's what I know best. So I'm going to stick with that. Often you can either
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