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Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Extra Credit: Can Private Credit Weather the Storm?
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Extra Credit, Danilo Rippa, Head of Multi-Strategy Credit at Man Group is joined by Kevin Marchetti, co-Head of Direct Lending and ...
Extra Credit: Catastrophe Bonds – A Diversifier Like No Other
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Extra Credit, Andre Rzym and Tarek Abou Zeid discuss the world of catastrophe (cat) bonds. In 2023, insured losses from natural dis...
Extra Credit: Algorithmic Advantage – Systematic Investing in Credit
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The world of credit is evolving. Gone are the days when investment grade bonds were only sold over the phone and the world of direct lending was a lit...
Liquidity Matters: Katie Martin, Financial Times
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A regional banks crisis. A recession that always seems just around the corner. And inflation figures that refuse to budge. It’s no wonder that many ...
Liquidity Matters: Measuring, Managing and Maximising Your Portfolio Liquidity
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode of Liquidity Matters, Michael Turner, CEO at Man Solutions, joins Robyn Grew, President at Man Group, to discuss why the selloff...
Alpha That Makes a Difference; 2022 in Review and a 2023 Outlook with Luke Ellis, CEO
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
2022 has seen inflation move from ‘transitory’ to recessionary risk, supposedly low-risk pension investment strategies caught in a liquidity crisi...
Bonus: Value at a Crossroads
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Has the death of Value been greatly exaggerated? Will the factor thrive in the new inflationary regime or struggle to survive from a Fed pivot? Dan Ta...
Bonus: FTX, DeFi and the Future of Finance
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does the fall of FTX mean for the wider decentralised finance industry? Is this a ‘Lehman moment’ as so many commentators have called it or a...
Trend Setters: Alpha? Beta? Trend's Place in a Portfolio
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are the signs of a good trend-following manager? When should you fire a bad one? In the final episode of our Trend Setters series, we explore the...
Trend Setters: “Is Everything Breaking?” with Robin Wigglesworth, Financial Times
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If 2021 was the year of ‘peak stupid’ in markets, is 2022 the year when everything breaks? Robin Wigglesworth, Alphaville editor at the Financial ...
Trend Setters: Pushing the Trend Frontiers with Specialist Markets
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do alternative momentum strategies work and what differentiates them from traditional CTA futures? In this episode, Peter is joined by Giuliana Bo...
Trend Setters: Crypto, Crowding & Convexity, with Prof. Cam Harvey
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Will crypto have a place in a multi-asset trend-following strategy? What’s the academic foundation for why trend-following works when so many other ...
Trend Setters: The Mechanics of Trend-Following
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we dive into the reasons why trend following strategies work and importantly, when they work. Joining Peter is Otto Van Hemert, Direct...
Trend Setters: Why You Should Follow the Crowd
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2022, trend-following indices have posted some of their best returns of the past 20 years. Against a backdrop of both equity and bond market sell-o...
Introducing: Trend Setters, coming Sept 21
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a trend in asset prices? Which signals should you be looking for to find momentum in markets? Which environments offer the best returns for...
Investing In The New Regime: What to Do When Your Hedges Don't Work
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Given the volatility in both credit and equity markets, portfolio hedging has never been more important. Peter van Dooijeweert, Managing Director at...
Investing In The New Regime: Forests, Fortran, and Climate Adaptation in Your Portfolio
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why is Fortran, one of the oldest and least-used programming languages, so crucial to modelling the impact of climate change? How do forest growth, cl...
Investing In The New Regime: Welcome to the New and More Volatile Inflation Regime
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Just a few months ago, US inflation levels hit the highest levels seen since the 1990s. Now the level is higher than at any point in the past 40 years...
Investing In The New Regime: Weathering the Storm in Investment Grade
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A dizzyingly expensive bond market, record levels of inflation and hawkish central bank policy shifts. Taken together, investment grade investors coul...