SI304: Taking the Trend Following Temperature with Man AHL ft. Graham Robertson

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 TimeStamps:

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 - Graham's perspective on AI in the trend following industry

01:00:20 - A new approach to 60/40

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