Nick Baltas - Multi-Asset, Multi-Strategy Portfolios (S7E3)
Corey Hoffstein and Nick Baltas delve into Nick's career in systematic investing and the evolution of client utility functions. They discuss categorizing and integrating systematic strategies, the future of quant equity, and banks' advantages. The conversation covers equity factors, momentum, and thematic serial correlation, plus multi-asset strategies and defensive implementations. They explore skewness in investment strategies, including measurement, implementation, and theories behind the skewness premium. The episode also addresses portfolio construction, historical vs. forward-looking skewness, cross-asset strategies, capacity risk, and Nick's current obsessions.
In this episode I speak with Nick Baltas, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and head of cross-asset delta one, commodity, and stocks strategies R&D and Structuring.
There are three major discussion points in this episode. First, we discuss how Nick thinks about using the broad palette of systematic strategies he has at his disposal to solve the problems of asset owners.
Second, we discuss Nick’s research on cross-asset skewness. Less commonly discussed among multi-asset strategies, Nick wrote one of the preeminent papers on the topic and provides considerable insight into the nuance of implementing a skewness strategy.
Finally, Nick shares his thoughts on building multi-strategy portfolios, both in theory as well as with respect to meeting client needs.
I hope you enjoy my conversation with Nick Baltas.
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