With the benefit of hindsight, I highlight two particular features about the evolution of the approach. So first of all we were noticeable. NKL: Since you mention that, what have you learned in these last few years in terms of trading and systematic models and how the environment plays such a key role in all of this? As it became more democratized and everyone had access to the same price feeds, well the bank trading desks had to make a living and spent time understanding our models. Now, of course were here to learn about the great things that you do at Aspect, but we cant ignore that your first company, AHL, had such a profound effect on the whole managed futuresindustry. NKL: So you have more than 100 people working for you today. Great question I think if Im sitting with a potential investor or an investor who may be struggling with recent performance compared to what they might have expected. Have market dynamics changed? You know what, Niels? I think that that DNA, that approach really took off in the industry. through all the interviews: deriving simple regressions and bias/variance of estimates, Correlations & Portfolio questions, 2 brain teasers, coding question (quicksort type solution), theoretical discussion on futures and options why/when/how do some phenomena occur (eg backward action in futures). 
So Id like to spend a good deal of time going all the way back to where your journey begins and find out what led you to where you are today. I interviewed at Aspect Capital in May 2022, Take ages to respond/do anything. One round of on site interview. So MINT was a pioneering systematic CTA in the early 1980s, and they did a 50/50 joint venture with the Man group. Attended 3 rounds of interviews only to be ghosted in the end. I interviewed at Aspect Capital in Jun 2021. There are some great macro traders but I can tell you Im glad I do what I do rather than be a macro trader, because how many times do you think folks have said, Well, yields cant go any lower than this.. By and large it has been very much a gradual evolution. Would you like us to review something? And Niels, if that hasnt put her to sleep, or to talking to the person on the other side of her, then nothing will. You would scale into a substantial position. Please describe the problem with this {0} and we will look into it. So sitting down with Anthony and Eugene, Michael was a shareholder and a backer, but he wasnt an executive in the business in the early years just because he had his software company. NKL: Speaking on longevity, youve also had a very long partnership with key individuals, and I wonder what is the recipe of keeping a partnership going for such a long time? Has trend following stopped working? First, in an odd way the first, Niels, is the importance of risk management and portfolio construction. I applied online. Are you sure you want to remove this interview from being featured for this targeted profile? Can we go faster? People talk about the AHL DNA or diaspora, I wont say dominating, but being a major feature of how the industry has evolved. 
It was a scientific exercise. Overall the interviewers were very polite and engaging, and though I did not proceed to the next stage, they provided very useful and detailed feedback which I appreciated. I think that the sales pitch of the early MINT funds in all those far-flung offices was, Look at that, bottom left to top right, very clever, trust me. You can imagine that doesnt go down well with institutional investors today. Had two sessions with a member of the team, and then head of team. On that theme, how do you build a strong culture in an organization? Through none of this story did we have the laser-like focus that we would all love to claim. We had managed to raise assets, so I think we were a fairly sizeable account for many of our brokers and market makers and when wed hit one of those discrete trading points, Im sure it was a very attractive piece of flow. But with the pall of the trauma of 2008, we actually closed down that part of the business and have, as we speak now, we are a one product there are various flavours of Aspect Diversified, but one product managed futures, predominantly trend-following business. NKL: What are the personal traits that a good researcher should have in order to have a chance to come and work for a firm like yours? I interviewed at Aspect Capital in Mar 2022, First stage: coding assignment with concurrency tasks, around one week to complete. Would you like us to review something? David was very driven by the asset management business, and he would be out on the road and spreading the good word about these programmes that we were running money in. Anonymous Interview Candidate in London, England, I interviewed at Aspect Capital (London, England). Seemed like a decent company. Going back a little bit, I think that a couple of pieces of the story as AHL still in it was really a couple of years before we got very close to Man and before they took a stake in us. So we havent gotten it right every time. Included questions about java, data structures, multi-threading. As I say, Michael was doing something else. NKL: I interrupted your fantastic journey, so by all means go back and tell us what happened when you got involved with Man relatively early on. it also wanted a way to check whether the price had changed since the last check (have to store price each time you look it up for this), have it running on multiple threads and have a wait that blocks the thread until the price changes, (in the interview) difference between array list and an array in Java, (in the interview) how does a hash map work, (in the interview) how to implement a linked list + single vs double, Java concurrency questions So that meant that as youd scale in and out of a trend, you would trade in discrete chunks. Quantitative Strategist (Vice President). As I say, Michael was fascinated with the software language that he was developing and was making his best efforts to commercialize it and sell it. We sort of floated around town. Your response will be removed from the review this cannot be undone. 
One round of on site interview. Give you 2 weeks to complete a simple coding task then take another 2 weeks to respond after you do it 1 weekend I think that the nature of what we all do in the asset management space lends itself to, how can I put this delicately to individuals. Well I think that the sweep of my career has sort of, unwittingly of course I dont think I set out in the early 1980s with this vision in mind, but I think with the benefit of hindsight, what we and others in the industry have managed to do in some sense is democratize a new form of investment, that actually I genuinely believe it has a contribution to make to pension funds, and to individuals investment portfolios. NKL: Sure, Im curious about something from that time and that is that we know that the Turtles were really taught break-out methodology, meaning you have a 20-day high or low, or 50-day high or low, and then you are on top of that, you add some exit rules and you add some risk management. Then in terms of the question of whats it for? It was a break-out model, and it would scale into a position. NKL: You certainly did. Once you start to diversify, obviously markets is one axis and time scale is another, but once you start putting in other models, then how you bind them together, and that admixture becomes super, super, super-important. We did that for a Gilt market-making house in London. NKL: Absolutely. The process took 4 weeks. It wasnt just a sort of pleasant recovery of favourable returns. Copyright 20082022, Glassdoor, Inc. "Glassdoor" and logo are registered trademarks of Glassdoor, Inc. Be the first to find this interview helpful, write a function to give the edit distance between two strings, Make a mapping function. That was a decent alternative hedge fund, wasnt it? When people ask What do you do? I think its so hard to the uninitiated to come up with an answer which both makes sense and is somewhat interesting. I interviewed at Aspect Capital (London, England) in Dec 2020. But that sort of presaged it almost felt like the tubes had been cleared, and the starting gun went off and the markets returned if you will, to some sense of normality, whatever your impression of normality is, and there was a great round of performance. So I left Nomura after a whole nine months there, so that was the last real job I had, and started working for Brockham Securities, which was Michaels fathers small broking house. Weve talked about the organization and what sort of underlies your success on that side, but I want to talk also now about the track record. NKL: Absolutely. The process took 2 weeks. How is pay, wlb & work culture. My contention is that investors often look at a track record of a manager and they think, Oh, so this is what I am going to get in the future. Of course we know that, as you rightly said before, programmes evolve and therefore a track record isnt necessarily meaningful in the current form, and I would argue maybe that, to get a better feel, you should ask for a back-test of the current configuration of any system, but usually that is not easily available. Interviewer was pleasant and easy to talk to, however. Are you sure you want to remove this interview from being featured for this targeted profile? We came up with this trading game, and it would randomly select a market and randomly multiply it by a random multiplier which could be a negative number, so it might invert the market and it would present you with a number of days of data, and then you had to trade. or Want to Sign up with your social account? I think that was the sort of introduction of the scientific method. I applied through a recruiter. So David and Michael and I, when we met, we said, if we could encode Robins rule set, that would be something, and it was just sort of a meeting of minds. I think we have certain targeted hires, where we may have determined that we need a skill-set. Probability brainteasers, mathematical finance, and question regarding experience in alpha research. 
To my knowledge, the AHL story has never really been told to the same degree as the story of the Turtles. So here goes, let me start out by asking you this question: imagine that you are invited to a dinner party with people who dont know you, and a few minutes into the dinner the lady sitting next to you looks in your eyes, she smiles politely and asks, So Marty, tell me what you do? How do you respond to that? Not that Ive ever worked in pharmaceuticals, but the point there is that at one level you look at Sandoz or Novartis or something like that and you get a sense of how good that business is at developing new drugs and how good are they both medically, and how good are they at exploiting them commercially. ML: From day one, Niels, we felt that to attract the kind of institutions that we wanted to attract we needed to do it thoroughly, so we didnt manage a dollar of client money until we had enough people that we could man a 24-hour-a-day trading operation until we had a disaster recovery facility. So here you are, youre about 1983 and personal computers were a bit of a rarity and Michael bought a Hewlett Packard 9816 and taught himself to programme in Pascal. NKL: How much assets did you have under management in 1989? ML: Niels, the thread that I forgot there was just it reconfirmed my belief that a systematic approach is I mean horses for courses. First of all we dont there isnt a graduate intake. Then we set up in February of 1987. Contribute to the database and get 1 month free* Full online access! We look at both our market footprint and what we think is the footprint of our entire industry to satisfy ourselves that were not this isnt shooting ourselves in the foot thats happened here. The brokers would send us over those big green fan-fold print-outs of historic prices, and we literally had to type them in. One interview was technical and involved various different problems and discussions of models and the other was CV based involved going through past experience etc as well as checking basic financial numeracy. In would come the grand vizier and determine whether that was indeed a rising pennant or a double bottom or a head and shoulders, and determine what the days trading would be. You didnt have correlated risk shocks. Secondly, there was an era of I want to highlight in the FX markets that this was the era of disintermediation of the interbank market, do you remember that? One week later the result is sent via email. They said, We see a lot of this fund activity increasingly and wonder if you could model what the different funds are doing in these various commodity markets. Of course! ML: [laughs] David had different priorities for the business. It was high fee, and it was extremely opaque. I saw that there are a bunch of customer service positions open and I don't know if it's somewhere that would fairly easy for someone with just 1 year of experience. So Aspect, as I say, was predicated in the belief that managed futures was too well-kept a secret. Meanwhile, you saw the advent of statistical arbitrage models and anything that had equities in the title that was fair game. So if you saw the repeat, it sort of patterned an end day high being supported multiple times. I applied online. First of all (Im going to foreshorten this) you got to an era where I think some of those trend-following models became less efficient. Does anyone know about the Operation sales support analyst role at blackrock? In the mid-1990s, I think some of the MINT funds struggled and AHL started to deliver on the research promise and, in a little bit, the rest is history. takes a function as input (e.g. Ive always, personally, been under the impression that it was based more on the moving average kind of methodology? 
I interviewed at Aspect Capital (London, England) in Jul 2020. I dont want to appear glib, so of course we investigate all of those things. Number one, actually Aspect was doing reasonably well. Theres division of labour so youve got from the technical production team, to the software development team that supports both the production systems and the research systems: youve got a core research team; youve got a dedicated risk management and risk review team, and I want to come back and talk about that for a minute; and then we have a fantastic product management group who basically are sort of an interface between our clients and the research team, that sort of protect the research team to stay focused on the job at hand; and then our technology team also supports data and gives us the tools to keep looking in new areas. Then its about commitment. The process took 2 weeks. Im glossing over a lot of work. I think he was focused on the research that he and his team were doing on the other side of London in that quant research, and I think that formed the genesis of Winton Capital Management, because I think he probably found the Man machinery a little bit smothering and he left and set up Winton. That would be nuts these days. What was it that made you believe that this is really the best way to make an investment strategy thats going to last for years or decades to come? 
I think that there was this sort of realization that clarity if you could just get rid of all of the noise, then there was a lot of information available in what the price had done that could inform what the right thing to do was. 
Eventually serviced offices and then on to Jermyn Street. First interview was split into 2 stages with 1 person that said/did very little and was pretty much just a silent observer judging, Anyone here work at Prudential Financials in Newark, NJ? You sometimes take your eye off the ball and the chemistry isnt right, but by-and-large, Niels, I think its about the people that you choose to work with. In the early days, as I say, the legacy of the managed futures industry, driven by the US, but it was also Man and around the world, it was the high-fee, opaque, sold product, and most self-respecting institutional investors turned up their noses at it. We optimized the living daylights out of these models in their back history. The analogies between then and now in terms of recession, savings and loan crisis remember that one? I applied online. So instead of me doing my usual summary of some of the key points in your journey so far, Id like to start a little bit differently today, and I hope thats OK with you? Whats going wrong here? Seemed like a decent company. plusOne which adds 1 to the input) and runs it on all elements, Make a thread safe class that you can add prices to as well as retrieve prices from. David had a separate research team within the Man group, Man Quantitative Research, and I held the baby of AHL through the course of 1995. We didnt really have office space. NKL: I guess, its the three Cs: the Character, the Competence and the Chemistry, when you want to put together a strong team. Get instant access to lessons taught by experienced private equity pros and bulge bracket investment bankers including financial statement modeling, DCF, M&A, LBO, Comps and Excel Modeling. All Rights Reserved. I was somewhere between researching the programme and also doing consultancy, so we had a number of consulting clients that we would encode their trading businesses on our software and give them commercial advice. Theres the cult of the individual. Asked me the time when I could be on board. Part 2 will be published in the next issue. I interviewed at Aspect Capital in Mar 2022, First stage: coding assignment with concurrency tasks, around one week to complete. The process took 3 weeks. My advice would be to move faster and get a more defined process. Government intervention, managing the yield curve, suppression of risk appetite a lot of similarities. You had to make a decision: am I going to buy this or sell it, or hold, or various trading rules, and then youd click the space bar and move forward a day and it was easy. Included questions about java, data structures, multi-threading. I think we traded cocoa, coffee, sugar, aluminum, copper, and zinc, and we had 25,000 of Adam family money and we built that first systematic portfolio. Weve been through phases where we divided the team up and people were siloed by asset classes, and we thought that created conflicts and incoherence, and then you sort of alight on where we are today where were divided into, in fact, its about 120 people in the organization, 70 of us are focused on research, trading, and technology to support those activities, and theres focus. We look at the low-volatility environment and what that is likely to do to both the opportunity set and to the risk management challenge. Well overall this was interesting and I learned a lot from it. How do you put them together carefully? The process took 3 weeks. You got to an era where markets did become more homogenous, so theres both a sort of macro effect as your pension fund manager in Japan begins to hold a similar-looking portfolio to your pension fund manager in Sacramento.
Michael went to work for his father and Cyril Adam said, why dont you see if theres anything in these technical trading models? You didnt have there was enough intrinsic diversification that if one sector was melting down youd have opportunities in another sector. ML: I wouldnt say we moved into it. Glassdoor has millions of jobs plus salary information, company reviews, and interview questions from people on the inside making it easy to find a job thats right for you. Unwittingly, despite us all having scientific or physics backgrounds, this was uncharted territory, so all of the schoolboy errors that we all know and everyone that works for us has learned back in finance 101 all those things about over-optimization and degrees of freedom we did it all. So along the way, along the journey we have developed and been modestly successful in the quant equity space. Its an attitude, and its a cultural fit that are the most important features. So by the end of the 1980s I think that MINT was probably the first alternative investment shop to be managing more than a billion dollars. 
We had had a run of good performance. After completing a fairly simple take-home test in Java, you were called in for a 2-hour interview. although I did not get a job offer I did learn quite a few things from interviewing with them. Had two sessions with a member of the team, and then head of team. The Sabre folks wanted Michael and I to join them, but in the end blood was thicker than water, so David joined us in the Adam family business. I applied through a recruiter. ML: Yeah. Whether people start to believe their own hype or investors want to believe the hype. Mix from software dev to finance knowledge (not required though by their own words), Research, coding language, portfolio construction, backtesting. I start with something fairly neutral like I run a quantitative investment business, and I see whether her eyes glaze over instantly, and then change the subject. We thought little of it, because thats the way we had always done it. 
Give you 2 weeks to complete a simple coding task then take another 2 weeks to respond after you do it 1 weekend Questions are about research, coding language, portfolio construction, backtesting, etc. ML: Thank you Niels. The first hour was going over the test, some technical knowledge questions and problem solving. That turned out to be the case. 
Lueck is well known in the alternative investment industry as one of the co-founders of AHL in the mid-1980s. Then, scrolling forward very quickly, in 1994, when they bought out the remaining minorities and IPOed the Man group, I think we were at the heady figure of $300 million I think thats right. I left and got my first job at Nomura, in January of 1984, and spent all of my lunches hanging out with Michael and just really thought what he was doing was great, and my trying to sell Japanese equities was not so great. NKL: What have been the biggest changes over time and is it really small incremental changes, or is there something where you look back and you say in the last 15 years, 2008, or 2009, or whatever it might be, we did actually discover something that we would say that was a big upgrade or that was a big find key finding? That was an interesting journey in and of itself because what Man had was the MINT business, which was over a billion dollars; it was spilling off enormous revenues and I think that the business was so successful so early that at the time they were not committed to building a research effort, so from where we sat, or rather, from where the Mans suits, as we called them, from where they sat, they had this billion-dollar business with 24 people, somewhere over in New Jersey, and these three kids and their $300 million of business, and we were over 70 people with a big trading team, with a big research team, with a big technology team and the Man guys said why do we need all of this stuff? through all the interviews: deriving simple regressions and bias/variance of estimates, Correlations & Portfolio questions, 2 brain teasers, coding question (quicksort type solution), theoretical discussion on futures and options why/when/how do some phenomena occur (eg backward action in futures). Back in the early days of AHL wed even write our own back-office software.
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