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Trend Following is the GPS of Investing

Trend Following is the GPS of Investing

In many areas of life, stories are king: sales, marketing, children’s bedtime routines, and raucous dinner parties. And analogies are a powerful ingredient of good stories.

On a recent family vacation, I discovered perhaps one of the best analogies for how trend following helps financial advisors.

Trend Following is the GPS of Investing

Author: Brandon Langley
Category: Systematic Investing
Car dashboard with cell phone GPS navigation

Trend Following is the GPS of Investing

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When it comes to designing portfolio management systems, we think plenty of asset managers and financial advisors think of the acronym as RRE, whereas we believe it has to be RRET: Return, Risk, Execution, AND Taxes.
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