Posts Tagged ‘hedge fund’
107 The Bright Future of Trend Following with Jean Jacques Duhot of Arctic Blue Capital – 2of2
“It’s all about learning and staying on the learning curve, that’s the best advice you can give to your children.” – Jean Jacques Duhot (Tweet) Moritz Seibert and I continue our conversation with Jean Jacques Duhot and further discuss his contrarian and multi-part model, how his management company has stayed lean, and how the due…
106 Implementing The Contrarian Model with Jean Jacques Duhot of Arctic Blue Capital – 1of2
“I thought that trend-following was an amazing part of the story, but maybe it could be complemented by some contrarian approach. And also, taking the trend by cutting it into parts.” – Jean Jacques Duhot (Tweet) Today on Top Traders Unplugged, I’m joined by my co-host Moritz Seibert to speak with Jean Jacques Duhot, the…
84 Being Authentic and Transparent with Your Investors with Natasha Reeve-Gray of Altis Partners – 2of2
“You don’t really know your investor and they don’t know you until you go through your first drawdown together.” – Natasha Reeve-Gray (Tweet) 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…
83 Starting a Quant Firm from Scratch with Natasha Reeve-Gray of Altis Partners – 1of2
“You’re talking to probably the least likely person to have gone into this business.” – Natasha Reeve-Gray (Tweet) Our next guest left a well known trading firm in London to start a quantitative trading firm with 3 other partners. There’s a lot to be learned from her insights on starting a business, building a culture,…
81 How A Serial Entrepreneur Built an Algorithmic Trading Firm with Oliver Steinki of Evolutiq – 1of2
“When I was in 2nd grade I wrote Portfolio Manager when asked what I wanted to do. I knew quite early what I wanted to do.” – Oliver Steinki (Tweet) Our next guest has started and invested in many companies, and is from an entrepreneurial background. First and foremost, he is concerned with running a…
77 Competing in the Long Tail of the Managed Futures Industry with Kim Bang of Prolific Capital Markets – 1of2
“There’s a long tail of smaller managers that have to fight over the scraps.” – Kim Bang (Tweet) Kim Bang grew up with his father’s shipping industry in Denmark, and discovered a fascination of the managed futures industry. He went on to work for companies such as Bloomberg and AIG, before founding his current firm…
72 He Adds Value to His System with Mike Shell of Shell Capital Management – 2of2
71 Why You Don’t Want Symmetry in Investing with Mike Shell of Shell Capital Management – 1of2
“It’s not about trying to make all the trades a winner – it’s about having the average win be much greater than the average loss – and that is asymmetry.” – Mike Shell (Tweet) Most trend following firms have clients that invest somewhere between 2 and 20% of their portfolio with that firm, but Mike Shell’s…
67 Institutional Investors and CTAs: A Look Forward with Aref Karim of Quality Capital Management
“This is a long term permanent component in a portfolio that ought not to be considered as a timing device for extracting some additional alpha.” – Aref Karim (Tweet) Aref Karim has been on the institutional investing side and the fund manager side for many years, so he has some great insights into how each…
45 How To Overcome Cognitive Bias in Investing and Trading with Roy Niederhoffer of R. G. Niederhoffer Capital Management – 1of2
“We are as humans essentially products of our hardware – that is an insight that I’ve taken with me into the trading side.” – Roy Niederhoffer (Tweet) Roy Niederhoffer has a fascinating live story that starts with Harvard and neuroscience and continues into his starting a hedge fund in the short-term trading space in 1993.…