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Ep. 427: Michael Ellsberg Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Ellsberg
Michael Ellsberg

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My guest today is Michael Ellsberg, an American author, blogger and public speaker. Ellsberg is credited for inventing “eye-gazing parties,” a craze in 2010 where participants stare deeply into each other’s eyes and follow up if they feel they made a connection. He is also a book editor and has spoken at Google and Peter Thiel’s Fellow Retreat.

The topics are his books The Last Safe Investment: Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever and The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won’t Learn in College About How to Be Successful.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Super skill vs. Market skill
  • Systemic spending
  • Cultivating meaningful relationships
  • Thinking three dimensional
  • Creating happiness in your life

“The things you actually want to experience in your life, you can’t just buy them when you’re 65.” – Michael Ellsberg

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

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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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Ep. 423: Angus Deaton Interview With Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Angus Deaton
Angus Deaton

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My guest today is Angus Deaton, the fifth Nobel Prize winner to appear on this podcast. Deaton is a British American economist, and currently a Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. His research focuses primarily on poverty, inequality, health, wellbeing, and economic development. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.

The topic is his book The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Unemployment
  • Minimum Wage
  • Poverty
  • Economics
  • Money and happiness
  • The birth lottery

“In periods where there has been a tremendous amount of innovation, there is typically a very large increase in inequality.” – Angus Deaton

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Ep. 421: Steve Kamb Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Steve Kamb
Steve Kamb

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My guest today is Steve Kamb, the founder of Nerd Fitness and leader of this rag-tag group of misfits. He is an American fitness instructor, publisher and writer best known for promoting health and wellness at the website and fitness center NerdFitness.com.

The topic is his book Level Up Your Life: How to Unlock Adventure and Happiness by Becoming the Hero of Your Own Story.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Traveling domestic and internationally
  • The hero’s journey
  • Marketing yourself
  • Marketing to a niche
  • What is a nerd?
  • Tailoring your fitness needs

“Surround yourself with people that are challenging you and making you better.” – Steve Kamb

“Life is meant to be lived on your own terms.” – Michael Covel

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Ep. 419: Mebane Faber Interview With Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Mebane Faber
Mebane Faber

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My guest today is Mebane Faber, a co-founder and the Chief Investment Officer of Cambria Investment Management. Faber is the manager of Cambria’s ETFs, separate accounts and private investment funds. Mr. Faber has authored numerous white papers and three books: Shareholder Yield, The Ivy Portfolio, and Global Value. He is a frequent speaker and writer on investment strategies and has been featured in Barron’s, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. Mr. Faber graduated from the University of Virginia with a double major in Engineering Science and Biology.

The topics are his books The Ivy Portfolio: How to Invest Like the Top Endowments and Avoid Bear Markets and Invest With The House: Hacking The Top Hedge Funds.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio:

  • Home country bias
  • Diversification
  • Different trading strategies
  • Finding the most successful hedge funds
  • Margin of safety

“Look beyond your shores. You have to be investment agnostic. As much as I love my home team, you have to be agnostic while investing.” – Mebane Faber

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Ep. 417: Robert Carver Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Robert Carver
Robert Carver

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My guest today is Robert Carver. He got his start in finance working at AHL. Robert started with AHL in 2001 during his final year of college. It was at this time that he was introduced to quantitative trading and began thinking of finance in a systematic way. He later went back to AHL, working there from 2006-2013. He is an independent systematic futures trader and investor, writer, and research consultant. He is currently a visiting lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London.

The topic is his book Systematic Trading: A unique new method for designing trading and investing systems.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Unpredictable risk vs. Predictable risk
  • Systematic trading
  • High frequency trading vs. Trend following trading
  • Black swans
  • When to intervene with your system
  • 2008 crash

“People rarely evaluate themselves critically and properly work out how well they have done in their discretionary trading activity, and look at statistics properly to examine whether they are genuinely doing much better than a system. I think a lot of people out there are fooling themselves.” – Robert Carver

“The more complicated the notion of what your predicable risk is, the less and less you think about the un-predictable risk.” – Robert Carver

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Michael Covel on Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz

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Barry Ritholtz was kind enough to have me on his Bloomberg show. The interview.

Barry Ritholtz Interview
Barry Ritholtz Interview

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