Top Traders Unplugged SI194: Trend Following & Manager Selection ft. Alan Dunne
Today, Alan Dunne joins us to discuss manager selection and how to overcome behavioural biases, based on his paper, “Solving the Manager Selection Puzzle”, narratives and dealing with randomness in Trend Following, the end of the 60/40 portfolio and moving from public to private equity, trend following performance and quantitative investment strategies, trend following in an ever changing world and the expectation of going back to “normal”, the challenges of globalization and demographics and much more.
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Episode TimeStamps:
00:00 - Intro
02:14 - Summary of the week
11:47 - The Challenges of Manager selection
18:22 - The Influeence of Randomness
25:57 - Alan's own Vulnerability
28:16 - The 5 Step Solution
30:03 - When the honest answer is what investors want to hear
46:42 - The evolution of the 60/40 portfolio - Barrons article
55:51 - Trend following in the Press
01:02:53 - Will we ever go back to "normal"
01:06:11 - The Great Demographic Twist
01:09:00 - Performance Update
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