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Ep 531: Mark Rzepczynski Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Mark Rzepczynski
Mark Rzepczynski

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My guest today is Mark Rzepczynski. Prior to co-founding AMPHI, Mark was the CEO of the fund group at FourWinds Capital Mgmt. Mark was also President and CIO at John W. Henry & Co., an iconic Commodity Trading Advisor. Mark has headed fixed income research at Fidelity Management and Research, served as senior economist for the CME, and as a finance professor at the Univ. of Houston Baer School of Business.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Controlling volatility
  • Style diversification
  • Long term vs. Short term managers
  • Simplicity beats complexity
  • Quant trading

“Price is primal.” – Mark Rzepczynski

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Ep. 485: Jared Dillian Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Jared Dillian
Jared Dillian

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My guest today is Jared Dillian, the author of Street Freak: Money and Madness at Lehman Brothers, named one of the top business books of 2011 by Businessweek magazine. He edits and publishes a variety of financial publications, including his own: The Daily Dirtnap. He spent a career as a trader on Wall Street and a short career before that as a Coast Guard officer. He is also an active investor, racquetball player, and an electronic music curator.

The topics are his books Street Freak: A Memoir of Money and Madness and All The Evil of This World.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Behavioral finance
  • Market psychology
  • Housing bubble
  • Dot com bubble
  • Lehman Brothers
  • Starting your own hedge fund

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Ep. 482: Two Takes with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Two Takes with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Two Takes with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Please enjoy my monologue Two Takes with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • The tulip bubble
  • March 2000
  • Fall of 2008
  • Financial instability hypothesis
  • Trend following philosophy
  • Behavioral economics

“The only way to eliminate market bubble’s and crashes is to eliminate people.” – Michael Covel

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Ep. 426: Vineer Bhansali Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Vineer Bhansali
Vineer Bhansali

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My guest today is Vineer Bhansali, founder and CIO of Long Tail Alpha. Vineer’s 29-year investment career started at Citibank, where he founded and managed the Exotic and Hybrid Options Trading Desk. He later joined Salomon Brothers in its Fixed Income Arbitrage Group, followed by the CSFB Proprietary Trading Group. Dr. Bhansali was at PIMCO for 16 years, serving the last eight years as MD and Head of the Quantitative Portfolios Team, which he founded in 2008.

The topic is his journal A Behavioral Perspective on Tail Risk Hedging.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Is trend following mean reverting?
  • Tail risks
  • Tail hedges
  • Human behavior and biases
  • Importance of a dynamic portfolio

“[Trading] really very much depends on people’s behavior and your extraction of what is driving that behavior.” – Vineer Bhansali

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