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MiB: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

We discuss how the traditional “bucketing” approach of crisply defining asset classes can limit opportunities for asset allocators. Burton explains how the unconstrained approach to institutional asset management creates opportunities for better risk management and an increased chance of superior investment returns.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

At the end of 2008, we owned a lot of illiquid assets. And whilst on a relative basis, those assets outperformed what was going on in a lot of other private firms, you know, it was certainly, I think we had 169 positions on the book at the time. So you’re Chief Investment officer of Asset and Wealth Management.

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Understanding Money & Investing

Discipline Funds

Understanding Money If you start with the following book, white paper and videos you’ll have a very solid starting point for understanding money: Pragmatic Capitalism – What Every Investor Needs to Know About Money and Finance (the only item on this page that is not free.

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Everything you need to know about NSE IPO

Trade Brains

The company, in consultation with joint global coordinators and book-running lead managers, will finalize the minimum bid lot and price band. Indian households traditionally invested most savings in physical assets. However, financial asset allocation increased recently. The IPO will constitute 22.5%

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Transcript: Maria Vassalou

The Big Picture

Another the great lesson, and I was still a global macro portfolio manager with my own silo at SAC Capital. And at the SAC Capital, it was all about risk management. I’ve focused much more on risk management, downside risk hedging. Let’s talk about books. VASSALOU: Yes.

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Transcript: David Snyderman, Magnetar Capital

The Big Picture

So they’d give individual asset allocation to people and they’d go invest their money. How about books? 00:44:18 [Speaker Changed] You know, I always like Michael Lewis books. You remember, remember this book is one of my favorites, you know, memos from the Chairman by Alan Greenberg. Interesting.

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Another Year Down – Learning from Quant Models

Validea

On Validea we run 22 stock selection strategies extracted from books or academic papers and construct 10 and 20 stock model portfolios based on these investment approaches. Risk-Managed ETF Model Portfolios: Multi-asset ETFs with risk management inputs. Guru Model Portfolios. Biggest Surprises.