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#FA Success Ep 345: Differentiating With Institutions And Ultra-High-Net-Worth Investors As A Serious Investment Firm, With Lori Van Dusen

Nerd's Eye View

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how Lori built her in-depth investment knowledge while working with large institutions and endowments at wirehouse firms like Shearson Lehman Brothers and Citigroup Smith Barney, how Lori approaches portfolio management with an approach of "don't fix what isn't broken" and assumes most large portfolios she manages (..)

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MiB: Armen Panossian, Oaktree Capital Management

The Big Picture

This week, we speak with Armen Panossian , managing director and head of performing credit at Oaktree Capital Management , which has $179 billion in assets under management. He previously worked for Pequot Capital Management, where he worked on distressed debt strategy.

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#FA Success Ep 328: Turning Senior Housing Guidance From A Non-Discretionary Value-Add To A Pay-For-Value Service, With Thomas West

Nerd's Eye View

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how, in the early stages of his career selling long-term care insurance, Thomas realized that so-called 'one-legger' senior couples – where one spouse is healthy but the other is not, such that if something happened to the healthy spouse, they’d both be in trouble – face unique challenges as (..)

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At the Money: How To Know When The Fed Will Cut

The Big Picture

To help us unpack all of this and what it means for your portfolio, let’s bring in Jim Bianco, Chief Strategist at Bianco Research, and His firm has been providing objective and unconventional research and commentary to portfolio managers since 1990, and it is top rated amongst institutional traders.

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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

The Big Picture

And then when I left the journal for the first time in 2008, they said, well, who should we hire to replace you? 00:16:42 [Speaker Changed] Coming into sort of late 2008, I think, if I recall correctly, I was somewhere between 70 and 80% stocks by that point. I did it in 2008 in oh nine. I said, Jason’s wife.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

And then I moved back to London at the end of 2008, which was a really interesting pivot. At the end of 2008, we owned a lot of illiquid assets. And there was a problem with 168 of them at the end of 2008. It was the year I made partner, actually, in 2008. I did that for a couple of years. RITHOLTZ: Good timing, yes.

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Market Extra: Government bonds held at banks may be so-called ‘toxic asset’ of next financial crisis, fund manager says

MarketWatch

Under a best-case scenario, investors’ fears would be calmed as California’s Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in New York are reorganized “in an orderly fashion,” according to Chris Crawford, the Boston-based portfolio manager of the firm’s Strategic Long Short Fund. The flip-side scenario is that the U.S. All three major U.S.