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Why Systematic? Why CTA? Why Now? A panel event with Mercer, Campbell, EMC Capital, & Resolve

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How to Manage Risk in a Portfolio

We have a mechanism in our programs that actually starts scaling existing positions, taking small profits gradually over time so that it helps us improve the drawdown from peak equity. And usually those periods where we're making those outlier profits, vol is expanding, so we're getting our positions kind of back to where the current vol is instead of the vol when we put the positions on. So those are, you know, some of the things that we're doing kind of unique in the risk management space,. But any CTA, the first thing they should talk about when you're talking to them is how they manage risk and how they think about risk at all levels of the portfolio.

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