As August comes to an end, we discuss this month of extremes for the trend-following community, marked by significant dispersion in performance and unusual price activity across multiple asset classes as well as the economy in general. We address the strengths and limitations of replication strategies and Andrew shares insights into how he thinks about appropriate correlations levels between the benchmark and the replication strategy. We discuss the challenges of the due diligence process in replication strategies including team size, why you should start allocating to managed futures and finally Andrew reveals an exciting world premiere that he and his team has been part of.

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Episode TimeStamps:

00:49 - What has been on our radar recently?

04:17 - Industry performance update

08:07 - Just another August?

12:35 - Q1, Martin: How to reduce drawdowns in the managed futures ETF space?

14:54 - Has replication become obsolete?

25:14 - Andrew's guidelines for correlation

31:56 - Staying in sync

35:47 - How to deal with the simplicity of replication strategies

43:42 - A world premiere!

51:05 - An index madness

53:05 - Beware of the shiny new things

56:02 - How the new index works

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