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My guest today is Campbell Harvey, a finance professor at Duke university, and research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Massachusetts. His research papers on these subjects have been published in many scientific journals.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Survivorship bias, and not being fooled by randomness
• Why people with higher risk tolerance experience much higher upsides
• Understanding process vs. outcome
• The difference between volatility and skew
• The importance of recognizing that asset returns are rarely \u201cnormally distributed\u201d
• When it is appropriate to apply a general framework, and when it is not
• The Sharpe ratio \u2013 is it always relevant?
• Harry Markowitz, Jim Simons, and Nassim Taleb

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