My guest today is Vineer Bhansali, the managing director and portfolio manager at PIMCO. His most recent book is “Tail Risk Hedging”. He has 24 years of investment experience and holds a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics from Harvard University.
The topic is Trend Following.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- “Trend Following Through The Rates Cycle”
- Trend following in the classical sense
- How trend following started to become part of the discussion at PIMCO
- Introducing new ideas to PIMCO, corporate culture, and to clients
- The three hypotheses tested in “Trend Following Through The Rates Cycle”
- Currency trading and trend following returns
- Why larger trend following shops may have trouble getting into smaller markets
- Trend following across a diversified portfolio and classical trend following approaches
- Connecting Bhansali’s hobbies to the quantitative world
- Structure and thinking in terms of code
- Imagining and building simulations
- Being distribution aware
- Why being at all-time highs is not the time to feel satisfied
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