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
Category: Systematic 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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