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James Aitken – Opportunities and Risks from Monetary Policy (EP.326)

Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry

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The Quantum Metal Industry and Volatility Targeting

The flow is dominated by the machines and that's not a criticism at all it's just the reality whether be volatility targeting quantum or Q-SIPs. So big has this quantum metal industry become that of course in the background it's soul for volatility adjusted returns hit the target but it's more and more about how much dollar risk do I need to deploy to hit those targets. Is it any wonder therefore that we're seeing this colossal dispersion between the largest most liquid stocks and everything else? At some point that's all going to turn around we don't know when but boy oh boy that's going to be a lively couple of days when that happens so just to flag it's important

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