On today’s episode Niels Kaastrup-Larsen speaks with Jake Barton, the Senior Portfolio Manager at Promus Capital, Trent Webster, Senior Investment Officer of Strategic Investments at Florida State Board of Administration, and Steven Wilson, Senior Portfolio Manager at Teacher Retirement System of Texas. As managers of the investment of pensions and alternative portfolios, our guests today get in depth on how they use trend following to improve their client’s capital, from interpersonal strategies in choosing a portfolio, how the funding status of a pension can affect a board’s strategy, and what guides them in making the choices they do for their holdings.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

How the guests got their start in investing
Trent’s philosophy for choosing his investments
What Jake looks for when working with managers
The core beliefs and principles that drive each of the guest’s decisions
How the funding level of the pension fund can change investment decisions
The varying degrees of differentiation and how it changes with the markets
Why our guests are firmly committed to trend following even after a few years of lower returns
Why convincing boards to invest in a hedge fund can be so difficult

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