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Rick Selvala is the co-founder and CEO of Harvest Volatility, a ten-year old manager of a variety of volatility strategies that oversees $13 billion in assets. After starting his career in the Treasury department at General Motors in the mid 1980s, Rick has spent nearly three decades trading derivatives on the sell side and buy side. Rick has an uncanny ability to break down this complicated investment area and make it sound simple.

Our conversation discusses the world of volatility, including intelligent uses of derivatives, overcoming headline risk, characteristics of successful traders, assessment of alpha, the current volatility environment, and strategies that capture returns.\\xa0 His insights left me thinking twice about some of the assumptions my System 1 brain had formed about volatility. Time for System 2 to go to work.

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Show Notes

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3:03 \\u2013 Rick\\u2019s path to Harvest

5:17 \\u2013 How should one think about volatility as an asset class

7:56 \\u2013 Volatility as a path to enhance yield

11:07 \\u2013 Is there a programmatic way to implement

12:55 \\u2013 Volatility as a path for insurance

15:45 \\u2013 Where do people go wrong with leverage

18:28 \\u2013 What level of understanding of this space do clients really have

21:58 \\u2013 How would someone express the idea that volatility is cheap in the market

\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 22:04 \\u2013 Bill Spitz podcast episode

24:24 \\u2013 What strategies could managers take advantage of in a low volatility environment

26:01 \\u2013 How does Rick asses if someone is a good trader

27:32 \\u2013 How do you identify firms that are too bold

29:26 \\u2013 Does the community have a good sense of whether traders are acting responsibly

30:08 \\u2013 How do you determine if a manager is outperforming

32:11 \\u2013 Is there a structural return from selling insurance to the market

34:13 \\u2013 Have computer systems changed trading in the derivatives market

35:14 \\u2013 Taking a look at the current environment

38:43 \\u2013 Recent market turmoil

39:58 \\u2013 Are quants impacting market volatility

41:26 \\u2013 What\\u2019s next on the frontier for Harvest

45:02 \\u2013 Closing questions