TTU23: Former CEO Reveals How to Thrive in a Challenging Market ft. Anders Lindell of IPM – 1of2

Aug 18, 2014

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Our next guest turned a challenging market into an opportunity to transform his strategy and build something substantial.

Welcome back to another episode of Top Traders Unplugged. Today we have the former CEO, now Chairman of Informed Portfolio Management on to discuss the road to formation of his firm, their Systematic Global Macro strategy, their unique approach to investor interaction and much much more.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

The relevance of controlling production at paper and pulp mills while Anders was a developing man
His history during his early days at JP bank as an analyst
The impact of the shifts in the fixed income markets of the early 1990’s which inspired a new strategy
The strategic focus that was the starting point for the formation of IPM
Who Anders learned from early on and who helped him cultivate a career in the hedge fund industry
How to find and retain talent and the entrepreneurial spirit drives in house management decisions
How IPM as an organizations manages the in house operations
How Anders hopes to see their potential realized in terms of double or tripling their AUM for future markets
What Anders looks for when spotting talent for new team members
Ideas for incentivizing team members to appreciate their careers
The long term view of IPM’s track record and how to evaluate it
More on the objective of the strategy of IPM and the environment in which it’s been designed to work well
Why the opportunities and volatility in emerging market equity trades is decompressing globally
The meaning of global macro and how they structured all the information into a systematic trading approach
How the IPM model differentiates it’s self from discretionary trading models and how they run them
The role of fundamental information in identifying market strategies

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