My guest today is Vineer Bhansali, the managing director and portfolio manager at PIMCO. His most recent book is "Tail Risk Hedging". He has 24 years of investment experience and holds a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics from Harvard University.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• “Trend Following Through The Rates Cycle”
• Trend following in the classical sense
• How trend following started to become part of the discussion at PIMCO
• Introducing new ideas to PIMCO, corporate culture, and to clients
• The three hypotheses tested in “Trend Following Through The Rates Cycle”
• Currency trading and trend following returns
• Why larger trend following shops may have trouble getting into smaller markets
• Trend following across a diversified portfolio and classical trend following approaches
• Connecting Bhansali’s hobbies to the quantitative world
• Structure and thinking in terms of code
• Imagining and building simulations
• Being distribution aware
• Why being at all-time highs is not the time to feel satisfied

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