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18 March 2022 Credit | Equities

Ep. 104: Andy Constan on Lessons From Bridgewater, Equity Valuations and Top Trades

Bilal Hafeez

This podcast is sponsored by Masterworks, the first platform for buying and selling shares representing an investment in iconic artworks. They are making it possible to invest in multimillion-dollar works from artists like Banksy, Kaws, Basquiat, and many more.

Andy Constan has spent the past 33 years investing and trading global markets. He’s worked at leading hedge funds Bridgewater Associates and Brevan Howard as Chief Strategist. Andy started his career at Salomon Brothers. He is the founder of Damped Spring Advisors. In this podcast we discuss:

What Andy learned from Bridgewater and Brevan Howard
Setting up all-weather portfolios
The problem with bonds
How to outperform the market
Using flow and position data and macro news
The impact of mortgage convexity hedging on bonds
What is next for the Fed
Whether equities are overvalued?
Europe’s tight financial conditions
Views on inflation
Favourite trades
Books that influenced Andy: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Lefevre), The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities (Fabozzi), Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (Hull), Principles: Life and Work (Dalio) and Liar’s Poker (Lewis)

You can follow Andy on Twitter, and access his newsletter here

You can read the transcript for this podcast here.

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(The commentary contained in the above article does not constitute an offer or a solicitation, or a recommendation to implement or liquidate an investment or to carry out any other transaction. It should not be used as a basis for any investment decision or other decision. Any investment decision should be based on appropriate professional advice specific to your needs.)

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