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My guest today is Robert Carver. He got his start in finance working at trend following firm AHL in 2001 during his final year of college. He was introduced to quantitative trading while at AHL and for the first time began thinking of finance in a systematic way. He later went back to AHL, working there from 2006-2013. It took a lot of research and digging for Robert to decipher which financial tools available to traders were appropriate for him. He knew he was not the only trader with this problem so he decided to write a book laying out what he had found through his research. Robert gives actionable tips and guidelines for others who may need help finding what trading instruments are right for them. Robert also wanted “Smart Portfolios” to be a book for the average investor. He wrote it in a way that is not over complicated. Any trader, new or professional, can pick it up and find it useful.
The topics are his books Systematic Trading: A unique new method for designing trading and investing systems and Smart Portfolios: A Practical Guide to Building and Maintaining Intelligent Investment Portfolios.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Portfolio selection
- Benchmarks
- International investing
- Fundamental trading
- Warren Buffett trading
- Expected average performance
- Leveraging a portfolio
- Luck vs. Skill
- Venture capitalism
“Most people probably spend much less time thinking about their portfolio’s than they do thinking about getting their car fixed.” – Robert Carver
Mentions & Resources:
- Robert Carver
- “Smart Portfolios: A Practical guide to building and maintaining intelligent investment portfolios”
- “Systematic Trading: A unique new method for designing trading and investing systems”
- @investingidiocy
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