What can you expect?
Join host Jamie Uppenberg and investment manager David Bush for a conversation about CARL’s Victory Peak quant hedge fund strategy.
Learn what makes the strategy so successful, the core logic of the strategy, how it has changed over time, and how it manages risk. They also discuss the future of investments and how digital fits in as well as CARL’s role in making quant funds accessible to more investors.
Episode Highlights
- What has made Victory Peak successful so far.
- Why David created the strategy and how it has changed over time
- The goals, core logic, and risk management aspects of the strategy
- David’s experience and thoughts about the investments digital revolution
- How CARL is providing more “on ramps” and accessibility for investors
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If you invest in the same thing that you’ve got you just end up doubling down on your risk
If you look after the risk, the returns will follow.
OUR GUEST
David Bush
David Bush is an award winning trader and manager with 23 years of experience in financial markets and well-versed in trading platforms and programming languages. Mr. Bush brings years of discretionary trading knowledge, creative arts background, and risk management experience to his quantitative research, systems, and strategy algorithm.
OUR HOST
Jamie Uppenberg
Jamie has 15+ years in digital payments, banking and financial services software development. She’s held several executive management positions in digital product software delivery, working various digital payment projects with big tech such as Apple and Google. Jamie brings extensive compliance, regulatory and KYC product and process management.
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