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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

Category: Systematic Investing
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Trend Following is the GPS of Investing

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The Secret Ingredient To Managing Taxes

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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Famous Strawmen: The Scarecrow & The Best 10 Days Rule

Managing risk while providing a more comfortable ride can give financial advisors an important moat in this increasingly competitive industry.
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Hope Is a Strategy (Just Not a Good One)

Hope (as a verb) is a poor strategy for investing. Hope (as a noun) is the result of thoughtful design and consistent execution (i.e., having hope not AS a strategy but BECAUSE of your strategy).
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