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Animal Spirits Talk Your Book: Investing in Commodities

The Irrelevant Investor

Today's Animal Spirits Talk Your Book is presented by Graniteshares Topics discussed Boom and bust nature of commodities What is the role of commodities in a portfolio -- manage risk or price appreciation? Why would commodities add a risk management component to a typical portfolio?

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

The Big Picture

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. With no further ado, my interview of GCM’s Ken Tropin.

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Transcript: Jeffrey Becker, Jennison Associates Chair/CEO

The Big Picture

00:06:46 [Speaker Changed] Well, one of the things we were doing by working out the, the troubled mortgage loan book at Aetna is we were also working ourselves out of a job. So the job was to wind down the portfolio, and we were actually given retention agreements that were two years in duration. What does concentrated mean to you?

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Transcript: Michael Rockefeller

The Big Picture

There are about 13 different portfolio managers each focused on a different sub-sector. 00:05:33 [Speaker Changed] Well, a couple weeks before I joined banking, someone gave me a book called Monkey Business. 00:05:40 [Speaker Changed] So that, that book is about bankers at DLJ in the nineties, you know, premier Investment Bank.

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Transcript: Maria Vassalou

The Big Picture

And all these questions that I was trying to answer had direct applications to hedge fund strategies and portfolio management. Another the great lesson, and I was still a global macro portfolio manager with my own silo at SAC Capital. And at the SAC Capital, it was all about risk management. VASSALOU: Yes.

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

BARRY RITHOLTZ; HOST; MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Antti Ilmanen is AQR’s Co-head of the Portfolio Solutions Group. He is the author of a new book, “Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When the Markets Offer the Least.” RITHOLTZ: Same here.

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Killer Vees

The Irrelevant Investor

A bounce of this magnitude makes a mockery of risk management. One of the challenges with tactical portfolio management, particularly with trend following, is that whipsaws are part of the deal. Yes, I'm talking my book here, we use a trend-following model for our clients.