TTU41: Trend Following Expert Explains All ft. Kathryn Kaminski of AlphaSimplex 1of2

Published: Nov. 3, 2014, 3:05 a.m.

Our next guest is different than any guest we\u2019ve had before, as she is not a fund manager but has spent much of her life\u2019s work researching and writing about the topic of trend following. She is a true thought leader in the managed futures industry and you\u2019ll learn a lot from the animated discussion we have regarding the history of trend following and how she co-authored her latest book on the subject.

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In This Episode, You\u2019ll Learn:

  • About Kathryn\u2019s upbringing in Nashville, Tennessee.
  • About her time at MIT where she went for electrical engineering.
  • How her internship at a bank in France got her on the path to work in the financial industry.
  • About her teaching financial engineering with Andrew Lo.
  • Through her teaching and research, she became interested in technical analysis and trend following.
  • How Kathryn went to the Stockholm School of Economics.
  • When she left academia and joined RPM in Sweden.
  • How she met Alex Greyserman and how she came to write a book with him.
  • The history of trend following as she lays it out in her book.
  • How trend following at its core is quite simple.
  • What Kathryn likes to do outside of work.
  • Her work life balance and her life in Sweden.
  • Her view on the building blocks of trend following.
  • Her quest for acceptance of trend following in the academic community.
  • Where the term Crisis Alpha came from and what it is.
  • About Convergent and Divergent strategies.
  • About the Adaptive Market Hypothesis that she writes about in the book.
  • What the CTA Smile is and what it really means.
  • What she would look for when building or critiquing a research team.

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