What podcasts say about Andrew Beer

Every statement, with the speaker, the exact quote and the moment it was said.

What Andrew Beer has said on podcasts

30 statements · 14 positive · 12 negative · 2 mixed · 2 neutral

on Equity (finance)NegativeOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Equity markets increasingly resemble venture-capital investing.
“The entire equity markets have become one crazy venture capital play.”
Listen at 0:00
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Tactical allocationMixedOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Tactical allocation helps, but discretionary human control is dangerous.
“having some tactical is good. But you know it's also dangerous to hand the keys of that car to humans.”
Listen at 0:19
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Artificial IntelligencePositiveOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
AI dramatically lowers barriers to starting new businesses.
“it is dramatically, in a scale, it's unimaginably lowered the barriers to entry to starting new businesses.”
Listen at 5:15
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Artificial IntelligenceMixedOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
AI will cause major disruption and stimulate entrepreneurship.
“There's going to be an enormous amount of disruption, but I think what you'll see is an entrepreneurial expression of entrepreneurial hunger”
Listen at 6:09
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on InnovationNeutralOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Innovation is inherently difficult to predict.
“the nature of innovation is we can't see it coming.”
Listen at 7:12
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Asset-allocation forecastsNegativeOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Ten-year asset-class and correlation forecasts are impossible to make accurately.
“It is absolutely impossible to make those predictions over the next 10 years”
Listen at 17:21
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Capital-markets assumptionsNegativeOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Capital-markets assumptions used in asset allocation are consistently wrong.
“the assumptions are always wrong.”
Listen at 18:04
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on BondsNegativeOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Adding bonds at the peak of the bond bubble was among the worst allocator mistakes.
“It is among... The worst mistakes an allocator could make at the very peak of the bond bubble, you add to your position.”
Listen at 19:58
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Human investorsNegativeOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Human investors are poor at timing markets.
“Human beings are terrible market timers.”
Listen at 23:03
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on DiversificationPositiveOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Diversification improves portfolios without requiring additional expected return.
“diversification is good. We know it's the one true free lunch in finances.”
Listen at 23:43
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Traditional asset allocationNeutralOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Traditional asset allocation discourages rapid or tactical decisions.
“The ethos is don't do anything fast. Don't be rash. Don't be tactical.”
Listen at 24:01
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on 60/40 portfolioNegativeOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Stock-bond relationship breakdown challenges the simple 60/40 portfolio.
“the breakdown in the relationship between stocks and bonds is really challenging the simple, easy construct of I own, want 60% S&P 500 and 40%, you know, us corporate bonds and I'm done that.”
Listen at 26:08
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on SocGen CTA IndexPositiveOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
CTA indices reduce the idiosyncratic risk of individual managers.
“the reason that ends up being very, very important is because you're trying to reduce the idiosyncratic risk of a given manager”
Listen at 28:39
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Managed futures fundsPositiveOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Managed futures funds profit from large price moves away from consensus.
“managed futures funds make money when there are big price moves away from consensus”
Listen at 34:04
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Managed futuresPositiveOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Managed futures should structurally perform well during crises.
“it's a strategy that structurally should do well in a crisis.”
Listen at 34:26
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Managed futuresPositiveOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Managed futures are likely to make money during a severe equity decline.
“I would put my money on managed futures making money during that period.”
Listen at 35:29
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on CTAsPositiveOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
CTAs have slightly negative correlation with traditional assets.
“CTAs as a space have slightly negative correlation.”
Listen at 37:26
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on CTA spacePositiveOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
The CTA space generated approximately 330 basis points of alpha over 27 years.
“alpha generation for the CTA space for the past 27 years, about 330 basis points.”
Listen at 39:00
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on SocGen CTA IndexPositiveOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
The SocGen CTA Index had a 16% maximum monthly drawdown over 27 years.
“the max drawdown on a monthly basis of the stock gen CTN it's over 27 years is 16%.”
Listen at 40:13
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Managed futuresPositiveOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
The tactical nature of managed futures helps preserve capital.
“The tactical nature of it is also a capital preservation tool.”
Listen at 41:14
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on CTA returnsNegativeOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
CTA returns are unevenly distributed across time.
“the lumpiness of returns”
Listen at 49:51
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on BondsNegativeOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Bonds currently provide no portfolio value.
“bonds have no value today.”
Listen at 55:22
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Stocks and bondsNegativeOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Owning only stocks can offer the same risk as owning stocks and bonds.
“You should just forget about bonds and just own stocks. If that's your, you have the same risk.”
Listen at 55:28
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Strategic asset allocationPositiveOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Strategic asset allocation forces diversification despite investor reluctance.
“Strategic asset allocation. It forces you to diversify when people hate to diversify.”
Listen at 57:47
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Tactical allocationPositiveOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Strategic allocation wrongly discarded beneficial tactical allocation.
“What you've done, though, is you've thrown out the tactical baby with the bathwater. Tactical is good.”
Listen at 58:02
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Human tactical allocationNegativeOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Human control of tactical allocation creates danger.
“it's also dangerous to hand the keys of that car to humans.”
Listen at 1:00:35
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Systematic tactical strategiesPositiveOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Systematic tactical strategies can make portfolios more adaptive.
“it can increase your ability to be more adaptive in the markets.”
Listen at 1:01:33
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Managed-futures managersNegativeOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Speaking with more managed-futures managers can increase allocator confusion.
“the more people I talk to in his face, the more confused I get.”
Listen at 1:08:12
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Managed futuresNegativeOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Excessive technical focus discourages broader managed-futures adoption.
“the problem with the obsessive focus on the technical side of it is that it scares away most other people.”
Listen at 1:09:32
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer
on Managed futures marketingPositiveOct 10, 2026· Top Traders Unplugged
Managed-futures marketing should use asset allocators’ language.
“the narrative has to be in the language of the asset allocator.”
Listen at 1:14:42
Open the episode · SI421: Taking CTAs Mainstream ft. Andrew Beer

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