{"id":53669,"date":"2020-01-25T12:27:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T17:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=53669"},"modified":"2020-01-25T12:27:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T17:27:43","slug":"tdi-podcast-alpha-quest-646","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/25\/tdi-podcast-alpha-quest-646\/","title":{"rendered":"TDI Podcast: Alpha Quest (#646)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-disciplined-investor\/id217999782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-257 alignright\" title=\"iTunes Subscribe\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/itunes_subscribe3.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Clare Flynn Levy, CEO of Essentia Analytics explains best practices for achieving alpha. We explore indexing, passive and active investing.<\/p>\n<p>Habits &#8211; especially bad ones can be changed as long as we have prompts and knowledge of our investing process.<\/p>\n<p>We also cover markets, news and updates on the week.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essentia-analytics.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-52621\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Clare-Flynn-Levy-CEO-Founder-Essentia-Analytics-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Clare-Flynn-Levy-CEO-Founder-Essentia-Analytics-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Clare-Flynn-Levy-CEO-Founder-Essentia-Analytics-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Clare-Flynn-Levy-CEO-Founder-Essentia-Analytics.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/><\/a>Prior to founding <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essentia-analytics.com\/\">Essentia<\/a><\/strong>, Clare spent 10 years as a fund manager, both active equity (running over $1bn of pension funds for Deutsche Asset Management) and hedge (as founder and CIO of Avocet Capital Management, a specialist tech fund manager). She ultimately &#8216;went native&#8217; into the software space as President of Beauchamp Financial Technology, a market-leading provider of portfolio management systems to hedge funds, which was acquired by Linedata Services S.A. Clare&#8217;s vision for Essentia is based on years of being the customer, followed by years of listening to the customer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Essentia Analytics<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.essentia-analytics.com\/\">Essentia Analytics<\/a> is a leading provider of behavioral data analytics and consulting for professional investors. Led by a team of experts in investment management, technology and behavioral science, Essentia combines next-generation data analytics technology with human coaching to help active fund managers measurably improve investment decision-making.<br \/>\nEssentia Analytics is an award-winning financial technology company that provides behavioral analytics services to professional investors.<\/p>\n<p>In investment management, as in elite sports, consistent outperformance requires a data-driven feedback loop and a cycle of continuous improvement: decisions are made, performance is assessed, behavioral factors and biases are identified, processes are optimized, and the next decision is made.<\/p>\n<p>Smarter, more focused, more efficient, better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cflynnlevy\" data-size=\"large\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @cflynnlevy<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewhorowitz\" data-size=\"large\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @andrewhorowitz<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">More information on the TDI Managed Growth Strategy &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/tdi-strategy\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/envestology.com\/envestology-update-webinar-june192019\/\">eNVESTOLOGY Webinar Replay<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triggercharts.com\/webinar-pre-market-rundown-fridays\/\">Friday Pre-Market Run-Down Webinar Registration<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Stocks mentioned in this episode: (SPY), (AAPL)<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3847\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode646.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('3847','https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode646.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/TDI_PlayPodcast-679.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode646.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=53669-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode646.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"tdi_episode646.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 49:02 &#8212; 45.3MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5vtvEVDPUi4221imwhXyXt\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Markets-and-Investing\/The-Disciplined-Investor-p414586\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clare Flynn Levy, CEO of Essentia Analytics explains best practices for achieving alpha. We explore indexing, passive and active investing. Habits &#8211; especially bad ones can be changed as long as we have prompts and knowledge of our investing process. We also cover markets, news and updates on the week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3848\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode646.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('3848','https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode646.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/TDI_PlayPodcast-679.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode646.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=53669-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode646.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"tdi_episode646.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 49:02 &#8212; 45.3MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5vtvEVDPUi4221imwhXyXt\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Markets-and-Investing\/The-Disciplined-Investor-p414586\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,296],"tags":[482,297],"class_list":["post-53669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-shownotes","tag-podcasts","tag-show-notes","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53671,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53669\/revisions\/53671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}