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Episode 25: Patrick Kent, CMT, CFA

Fill The Gap: The Official Podcast of the CMT Association

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The Key to Active Management Is Sizing

I think the key to active management is not to be, to have access to factors that you can buy cheaply. So if you are running against the benchmark, you should be running idiosyncratic risk against that benchmark. And so to me, it's a fundamental of the portfolio construction is driving as much idiosyncratic risk as I can in the portfolios. That was about the exact time that newbie traders found out about the word leverage pattern. No, I said, so coming back to your point about sizing. Yeah. So I'd say there's a couple different things I use to think about sizing.

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