TTU84: Being Authentic & Transparent with Your Investors ft. Natasha Reeve-Gray of Altis Partners – 2of2

In this second part of our conversation, Natasha dives into the details of the trading model and portfolio of Altis Partners, her firm. We discuss how they approach risk management, and how they’ve dealt with drawdowns over the years. She also gives her take on the future of the managed futures industry, what advice she would give to emerging firm managers, and other lessons she has learned along the way.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• About how Natasha and her team constructs their portfolio.
• How their models are adaptive.
• What their integrated risk approach does and how it works.
• What she thinks the capacity is of the strategy that her firm has.
• How she defines risk.
• How correlations play a part in their portfolio.
• Which sectors of the market do well with their model.
• How she sets the expectations for what kinds of drawdowns they might have.
• How to help investors with the emotional rollercoaster of drawdowns.
• How the firm goes about doing research.
• How to detect if a certain model stops working.
• What lessons they have learned from all their years in business.
• How success changes your mindset.
• Why it’s good to have people to look up to.
• Her biggest challenge facing her firm today.
• What investors are not asking when at due diligence meetings with her firm.
• Why a long term relationship with a client is important.
• What advice she would give to emerging managers today.
• Where she thinks the managed futures industry is going as a whole.

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Resources & Links Mentioned in this Episode:

• Natasha recommends reading The Hard Thing About Hard Things, a book about building a business and entrepreneurship.
• She also recommends Fortune’s Formula, by William Poundstone.

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