Miami Hedge Fund week Panel 2024 Part II: Increasing Accessibility of Alternative Investments

The Derivative

Join us for the second half of our panel discussions during this year's Hedge Fund week in Miami as we explore increasing accessibility of alternative investments through new ETF products and strategies. We’ve got Rodrigo Gordillo taking reigns from the quantitative perspective, Jerry Parker talking trend following, Bob Elliot on replication and Jay Pestrichelli, options guru, guiding us through hedge fund strategies, discussing their day-to-day responsibilities and tasks, highlighting differences in their approaches despite operating under the broad financial services umbrella.

We dive into challenges around educating investors on sophisticated strategies as well as recent regulatory changes that allow new product structures that are making alternative approaches more accessible to a wider range of investors. Topics discussed include quant fund management processes, trend following across 400 markets including single stocks, and harnessing options decay in a new ETF. Challenges of communicating performance during periods of potential underperformance are being addressed such as election year impacts and whether strategies position based on outcomes, capacity constraints of highest Sharpe strategies and limitations of full replication, along with democratizing diversification strategies through return stacking ETFs.

Sit back and gain knowledge on the expanding opportunities and accessibility in the alternatives space, with room for continued advances as innovation progresses, SEND IT!

Chapters:

00:00-01:48=Intro

01:49-14:42= Intros & the Day-to-Day work ethic

14:43-28:45= Hedge fund replication, ETFs for retail investors & financial accessibility

28:46-45:22= Democratizing diversification through ETFs, market trends & election year impact

45:23-55:53= Hedge funds generating alpha, investments strategies & ETF operations

55:54-01:08:01= Managing expectations, Innovations & the future of investing

From the episode:

Miami Hedge Fund week 2024 Part 1: Commodities

Follow along with this panel on Twitter & LinkedIn: @rjparkerjr09 , @RodGordilloP, @BobEUnlimited, & @ZEGAFinancial

And remember to check out their company profiles on LinkedIn:

Jerry Parker

Rodrigo Gordillo

Bob Elliott

Jay Pestrichelli