In this episode, Moritz Seibert is by Scott Kerson, the Head of GreshamQuant. Gresham is a commodity-focused investment management firm and GreshamQuant is their systematic trading arm. In 2017, they launched the ACAR Fund, an alternative markets trend following fund with an exclusive focus on commodities. Scott and Moritz discuss why they believes alternative markets to have better trending properties and higher Sharpe ratios within a trend following context and why they refuse to trade a larger portfolio which would also include the traditional futures markets most other CTAs trade. At the end, Scott also shares his outlook on the alternative markets CTA space with us. If you\u2019re interested in alternative markets trend following, this is a valuable episode to listen to.
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Episode TimeStamps:
02:22 - Introduction to Scott Kerson
08:27 - When did AHL Evolution start and what is it?
13:54 - What is an alternative market to Kerson and what differentiates it from other markets?
20:25 - Why an exclusive focus on commodities?
22:45 - What markets are Kerson trading and why?
24:04 - Where are the hidden gems?
26:31 - Why Kerson restrict the markets he is trading
30:37 - Maintaining a neo-classical trend approach
31:26 - A need for...