In today’s episode, Rusty and Robyn talk with Scott Ladner, Chief Investment Officer at Horizon Investments in North Carolina.
After majoring in economics and Russian literature in college, Scott decided that the financial industry was a better career path for him. He started as a derivatives and volatility trader for banks and hedge funds, before starting his own arbitrage hedge fund that eventually folded into Horizon Investments.
Scott talks with Rusty and Robyn about the tailwinds that are pushing the markets forward, the state of cryptocurrency, and what it means to be a truly tactical investor. He also shares strategies for how to change and evolve in a fast-paced industry.
“In a goals-based framework, the way you define the return and the way you define risk mathematically changes depending on where your client is with respect to their financial plan. Is their primary objective growing assets or protecting assets? That primary objective will help inform the primary metric we use to define risk. And that combination will drive how the money ends up being managed.” @horizoninvestment
1694-OAS-5/20/2021