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Prior to founding ClearAlpha, Brian spent 21 years at AQR Capital Management as a portfoliomanager, researcher, head of trading, and the firm’s first non-founding Partner. As a senior portfoliomanager, he was in charge of over $15 billion in hedge fund assets. DON’T MISS IT.
Today's Animal Spirits Talk Your Book is presented by Graniteshares Topics discussed Boom and bust nature of commodities What is the role of commodities in a portfolio -- managerisk or price appreciation? Why would commodities add a riskmanagement component to a typical portfolio?
There are about 13 different portfoliomanagers each focused on a different sub-sector. 00:05:33 [Speaker Changed] Well, a couple weeks before I joined banking, someone gave me a book called Monkey Business. 00:05:40 [Speaker Changed] So that, that book is about bankers at DLJ in the nineties, you know, premier Investment Bank.
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. We just get to focus on assets and asset riskmanagement. So earlier we were talking about assets, and then you referenced riskmanagement.
And all these questions that I was trying to answer had direct applications to hedge fund strategies and portfoliomanagement. Another the great lesson, and I was still a global macro portfoliomanager with my own silo at SAC Capital. And at the SAC Capital, it was all about riskmanagement. VASSALOU: Yes.
A bounce of this magnitude makes a mockery of riskmanagement. One of the challenges with tactical portfoliomanagement, particularly with trend following, is that whipsaws are part of the deal. Yes, I'm talking my book here, we use a trend-following model for our clients.
BERRUGA: We think it’s a great solution for clients that are looking for two things, either income or like a riskmanagement tool to play the volatile environment that we have seen in the markets. But when you factor in, you know, legal costs, compliance, portfoliomanagement, trading, there is a lot that goes into launching an ETF.
Fund Management includes managing debt funds and providing portfoliomanagement services. It uses data-driven riskmanagement and credit underwriting processes. RiskManagement: The company employs robust riskmanagement based on domain expertise, proprietary models, and a large data repository.
At its core, the CFP® Fast Track equips you with the expertise to offer sound financial advice, specializing in areas such as retirement planning, riskmanagement, tax planning, and wealth management. By pursuing this course, you become proficient in helping individuals and companies achieve their financial goals.
So at our firm, putting portfoliomanagers in front of prospects and clients, we constantly have to train them, give them presentation training. 00:22:24 [Speaker Changed] Being client portfoliomanagers. We just have to think about managing the money in the best way that we can. Let’s talk about books.
I read something you had mentioned Schlansky’s book, the Theory of Poker, A professional poker player teaches you how to think like one, obviously decision making under uncertainty with probabilistic odds and an inherently unknowable future. And the third, the one that nobody talks about is riskmanagement.
And when we first booked you, you were like a junior analyst. So, GOG, discretionary portfoliomanagement. Let’s talk about some of your favorite books and what you’re reading lately. The translators of these books, aren’t they gifted? ROBYN GREW, PRESIDENT, MAN GROUP: Thank you for having me, Barry. RITHOLTZ: Huh.
But it was a tremendous experience because I had started off in bond trading, worked my way into portfoliomanagement and running the bond indexing team for a number of years, and then I got asked to take this responsibility, which was much broader. Let’s talk about books. RITHOLTZ: Wow, really, really interesting.
They teach beyond what’s written in books and expose young minds to the rigorous demands of management in the job sector. Corporate Investment Management. Hedge fund management. PortfolioManagement. Asset Management. Credit RiskManagement. Hedge Fund Management. Investments.
Macchia mentions that there are firms that have sprung up offering no load products, products that report into your portfoliomanagement system, wrap-able products, etc. Macchia chimes in, saying he finds it ironic that the first module in the CFP program is riskmanagement, which he interprets to be about insurance.
She was a partner and a portfoliomanager at Canyon Capital, a firm that runs currently about $25 billion. Her book, “Damsel in Distressed: My Life in the Golden Age of Hedge Funds”, is really a fascinating read. I know I want to have a guest on with a book. You mentioned in the book Canyon Capital took a chance on you.
And Wall Street didn’t work out for a variety of reasons, but I ended up working sort of an adjacent industry in the portfoliomanagement software business, and really wasn’t where my passion was. RAMPULLA: Charlie Ellis, another one, you know, The Loser’s Game, his book there. Brandon) walked down Wall Street.
So they knew that of all the things, of all the problems that they may have in their book, we were probably the least of their problems. And were calling us and saying, look, I mean, what’s gonna happen with my private equity book? I tend to not like watching shows or reading books about investing.
To achieve this, active managers, supported by specialist research teams are key to mitigating the risks, selecting the best opportunities and taking advantage of any volatility for an attractive entry point. It includes those Russell 1000 companies with higher price-to-book ratios and higher forecasted growth values.
If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, riskmanagement, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. With no further ado, my interview of GCM’s Ken Tropin.
BARRY RITHOLTZ; HOST; MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Antti Ilmanen is AQR’s Co-head of the Portfolio Solutions Group. He is the author of a new book, “Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When the Markets Offer the Least.” RITHOLTZ: Same here.
So there was a tremendous amount of proprietary trading, you know, hedge funds in the back book, a little bit of a front book. And don’t take a lot of risk and make a lot of money, supposedly, right? And you know, he had this checklist mentality, which looks a lot like riskmanagement, right? RITHOLTZ: Yeah.
You were a portfoliomanager, researcher head of trading, and apparently tech geek putting machines together. So that is a big focus and if you think about what riskmanagers would do at a casino, it’s the same thing. And so you think just simple supply and demand, lots of portfoliomanagers who can do them.
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