My guest today is Campbell Harvey, a finance professor at Duke university, and research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Massachusetts. His research papers on these subjects have been published in many scientific journals.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Survivorship bias, and not being fooled by randomness
Why people with higher risk tolerance experience much higher upsides
Understanding process vs. outcome
The difference between volatility and skew
The importance of recognizing that asset returns are rarely “normally distributed”
When it is appropriate to apply a general framework, and when it is not
The Sharpe ratio – is it always relevant?
Harry Markowitz, Jim Simons, and Nassim Taleb

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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Ep. 359: Campbell Harvey Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Ep. 359: Campbell Harvey Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio