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ReSolve Riffs with Andy Constan about Successful Macro Trading on Liquidity, Flows & Sentiment
Episode 12618th May 2022 • Resolve Riffs Investment Podcast • ReSolve Asset Management
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This week we had the pleasure of speaking with Andy Constan (CEO / CIO at Damped Spring Advisors) and prolific member of the FinTwit community under the @dampedspring penname. Our conversation spanned topics including:

  • His long and interesting career in the investment world
  • Starting with equity derivatives and eventually earning his ‘global macro education’ at Bridgewater Associates
  • The constantly evolving challenge of generating alpha
  • Trading and managing portfolios at scale and the importance of liquidity
  • Separating alpha from beta
  • Basis risk vs liquidity risk
  • The broad macro picture vs what is priced in
  • The unique challenges posed by the current environment
  • The front-running of quantitative tightening
  • The daily marking to market of risk premia
  • The weak link between consumer inflation and the Fed’s balance sheet
  • The interplay between the Fed, the Treasury and the bond market
  • Interpreting the messages coming from policymakers
  • The importance of positioning data and rebalancing flows
  • And much more

This is “ReSolve’s Riffs” – live on YouTube every Friday afternoon to debate the most relevant investment topics of the day, hosted by Adam Butler, Mike Philbrick and Rodrigo Gordillo of ReSolve Global* and Richard Laterman of ReSolve Asset Management.

 

*ReSolve Global refers to ReSolve Asset Management SEZC (Cayman) which is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a commodity trading advisor and commodity pool operator. This registration is administered through the National Futures Association (“NFA”). Further, ReSolve Global is a registered person with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.

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