Flirting with Models is the show that aims to pull back the curtain and meet the investors who research, design, develop, and manage quantitative investment strategies. Join Corey Hoffstein, Chief Investment Officer of Newfound Research, on a journey to explore systematic investment strategies, ranging from value to momentum and merger arbitrage to managed futures. For more on Newfound Research, visit www.thinknewfound.com.
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Join Corey Hoffstein and Rodrigo Gordillo as they explore the world of return stacking with insights from leading experts and real-world applications. Break away from traditional portfolio construction and rethink successful investing.
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The financial advisor of tomorrow looks different than the financial advisor of the past. This podcast will be a compilation of monthly interviews, audio from short videos, and more covering everything from practice management to marketing to branding and beyond that The Advisor Of Tomorrow needs to know. Your host is Justin Castelli, CFP®, the founder and financial advisor of RLS Wealth Management and co-Founder of The Advisor Growth Community™.
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E5: Diversification 2.0: Mastering the Art of Portable Alpha
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Portable alpha (or as we like to call it: Return Stacking) has become increasingly popular in the financial media (including recent notes from industry giants like BlackRock, Russell Investments, and AQR) but many advisors are left asking: What does portable alpha mean? How might it benefit clients? How can I implement it?At Return Stacked Portfoli…
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Farouk Jivraj - The Art & Science of Using Alternative Risk Premia (S7E12)
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In this episode, I speak with Farouk Jivraj, Portfolio Manager and Head of Alternative Risk Premia at Fidelity Investments’ Asset Management Solutions division. After spending nearly a decade on the sell side, Farouk joined Fidelity in 2021 with the goal of building out an alternative risk premium platform, tapping into the best of what both the se…
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Giuseppe Paleologo - Multi-Manager Hedge Funds & Thinking Deeply About Simple Things (S7E11)
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In this episode I chat with Giuseppe Paleologo – or Gappy as he likes to be called. Currently on garden leave, Gappy has previously worked in Risk & Quantitative Analytics at Citadel, as Head of Enterprise Risk at Millennium, and most recently as Head of Risk Management at HRT. We begin the conversation with a discussion as to what a quant research…
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On this episode, Ben Carlson and Michael Batnick are joined by Corey Hoffstein of Newfound Research to discuss: managed futures, return stacking, using leverage effectively, and much more!By Corey Hoffstein
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E4: Live Q&A – Return Stacking During Market Corrections
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Join Corey Hoffstein, Rodrigo Gordillo, and Mike Philbrick for a special live episode of the Get Stacked podcast, aired on August 6, 2024. This episode dives deep into recent significant market events, discussing the Nikkei's historic 12.5% drop, the yen's trend reversals, and market volatility.AGENDA: - Global Macro Update- Broad expectations of R…
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E3: Stacking In Higher Rate Environment, Taxes, Trend Replication Update
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In this episode, the Get Stacked team, consisting of Rodrigo Gordillo, Corey Hoffstein, Adam Butler and Mike Philbrick delve into the intricacies of Return Stacking, market trends, and the impact of taxes on investment strategies. They provide detailed insights into their research and findings, discussing the implications of their work for the inve…
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Kris Abdelmessih - Life Through a Volatility Lens (S7E10)
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My guest in this episode is Kris Abdelmessih, co-founder of moontower.ai. Kris began his career at SIG, where he worked as a market maker in several different option pits, before moving to Parallax where he ran a relative value commodities volatility book. For the last five years, Kris has been writing on his blog Party at the Moontower, which is o…
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Bill Gebhardt - Replicating Discretionary Commodity Trading Systematically (S7E9)
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In this episode I speak with Bill Gebhardt, founder of 10Dynamics. Bill spent the better part of his career as a discretionary energies trader, with roles at Koch Industries, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, and Trailstone. In May 2020 he struck out on his own to co-found 10Dynamics. Given Bill’s fundamental and discretionary background, it may come a…
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E2. Secrets of Private Equity, Cocoa Trends & Optimal CTA Portfolio Weights
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Corey Hoffstein, Adam Butler, and Michael Philbrick join Rodrigo Gordillo to discuss trend replication, private equity's role in modern portfolios, and the impact of large AUM on trend following. They explore balancing alpha generation with risk management, optimal allocation, and leveraging through treasury futures.(0:00) Introduction to private e…
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Nicolas Mirjolet - Multivariate Trend Following (S7E8)
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In this episode, I speak with Nicolas Mirjolet, CEO and Co-Head of Research at Quantica Capital. We begin with Nicolas’s experience operating a statistical arbitrage fund, where he provides his thoughts as to what makes a strategy easier or harder to scale a business on. Nicolas also provides some context for his somewhat counter-intuitive view tha…
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[PREVIEW] Enter the New World of Return Stacking | Get Stacked Podcast
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Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Get Stacked Investment Podcast. This episode brings together Corey Hoffstein, Rodrigo Gordillo, Mike Philbrick, and Adam Butler to dive deep into the concepts of Return Stacking, market efficiency, and investment strategies beyond traditional stock picking. Providing insights into Return Stacking's relevance …
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E1. Enter the New World of Return Stacking - Inaugural Episode!
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In this episode, Corey Hoffstein from Newfound Research, and Rodrigo Gordillo and Adam Butler of Resolve Asset Management Global, discuss the concept of return stacking and its implications for investors. They delve into the challenges of beating the large cap U.S. equities market, the shift in conversations about return stacking from risk manageme…
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Markku Kurtti – Diversification is a Negatively Priced Lunch (S7E7)
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In this episode I chat with Markku Kurtti, author of the blog Outcast Beta. Markku is classically trained as an electrical engineer and works on receiver algorithms for mobile phones. A passion for investing, however, lead him to pursue an MS in Finance and an interview with Ed Thorp compelled him to devote his time to better understanding compound…
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Otto van Hemert - Seasonality Everywhere (S7E6)
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In today’s episode I speak with Otto van Hemert, Director of Core Strategies at Man AHL. After briefly touching upon Otto’s background, we dive into one of his most popular papers: The Best Strategies for Inflationary Times. Otto shares the inspiration for the research as well as some of what he feels were the less obvious results. Trend strategies…
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Clayton Gillespie - A Fundamental View of Quant Equity (S7E5)
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My guest this episode is Clayton Gillespie, VP at Deutsche Bank where he works in quant equity research for the QIS team. Clayton began his career at Credit Suisse HOLT, where he got his hands dirty in extracting fundamental information. This formative experience dramatically impacted how he views how fundamentals should be incorporated into quanti…
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Hari Krishnan – Hedging a Commodity Bull Market (S7E4)
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In this episode I am joined by Hari Krishnan, Head of Volatility Strategies at SCT Capital and author of the books Second Leg Down and Market Tremors. This is Hari’s second appearance on the show, but he comes to us with a very different topic: how to develop a low carry hedge for a commodity bull market. Taking a similar line of thinking to his bo…
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Nick Baltas - Multi-Asset, Multi-Strategy Portfolios (S7E3)
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In this episode I speak with Nick Baltas, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and head of cross-asset delta one, commodity, and stocks strategies R&D and Structuring. There are three major discussion points in this episode. First, we discuss how Nick thinks about using the broad palette of systematic strategies he has at his disposal to solve the pr…
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In this episode I speak with Bin Ren, founder of SigTech, a financial technology platform providing quantitative researchers with access to a state-of-the-art analysis engine. This conversation is really broken into two parts. In the first half, we discuss Bin’s views on designing and developing a state-of-the-art backtesting engine. This includes …
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Charles McGarraugh - "Change in the Market is Accelerating" (S7E1)
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In this episode I speak with Charles McGarraugh, Chief Investment Officer of Altis Partners. Charlie finds himself at the helm of Altis from a non-traditional route. His career began at Goldman, where his experience spanned everything from asset backed securities to liquid commodities. He then started a firm specializing in machine-learning driven …
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Andrew Beer & Adam Butler - Attack of the Managed Futures Clones
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In this special episode of Flirting with Models, I’m joined by two guests: Andrew Beer of DBi and Adam Butler of ReSolve Asset Management. Rather than my usual interview format, I wanted to foster a conversation about the replication of managed futures strategies. Specifically, I wanted to bring on two practitioners who both share the same high lev…
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