Today, we are joined by our special guest, Graham Robertson who is Partner and Head of Client Portfolio Management at Man AHL, for a wide-ranging conversation about trend following. We discuss how trend following has stood out in recent years and why April 2024 was especially noteworthy, and how Graham views the current interest from investors around the world. We also address to what extent trend following should play a role in your portfolio and what type of environment tends to influence overall performance for the industry based on Principal Component Analysis. Lastly, we discuss how AI might impact the trend following industry, and whether Trend Followers have started saying goodbye to the short fixed income traded, that lasted for more than 2 years.

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Episode Summary
00:56 - Introduction to Graham Robertson
03:40 - How Graham came across trend following
04:56 - Graham's observations in 2024 so far
08:03 - Is China becoming an easier market to trade?
09:01 - How to deal with uncomfortable markets
11:17 - Why April was an interesting month for trend followers
14:54 - A discussion on trend following performance
20:45 - Industry performance update
22:03 - How Man AHL assess the interest in trend following and CTA strategies
26:37 - Rating the climate for interest in trend following
31:46 - Which regions or countries are most interested in trend following?
34:16 - Why ESG means different things to different strategies
38:05 - How much should investors allocate to trend following?
41:05 - How to change people's minds about trend following
43:59 - Changing the narrative in the trend following industry
47:28 - Man AHL's general approach to research
55:15 - Robertson's perspective on AI in the trend following industry
01:00:20 - A new approach to 60/40?

Full episode can be found here:
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