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Podcast links: hedge fund math

Abnormal Returns

(awealthofcommonsense.com) Corey Hoffstein talks with Farouk Jivraj, Portfolio Manager and Head of Alternative Risk Premia at Fidelity Investments’ Asset Management Solutions division. podcasts.apple.com) Barry Ritholtz talks with Vincent Aita, Founder and CIO of Cutter Capital Management.

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MiB: Jeffrey Sherman, DoubleLine Deputy CIO

The Big Picture

Sherman oversees and administers DoubleLine’s investment management subcommittee; serves as lead portfolio manager for multisector and derivative-based strategies; and is a member of the firm’s executive management and fixed-income asset allocation committees.

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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

The Big Picture

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

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At the Money: Benefits of Quantitative Investing

The Big Picture

Portfolio management was a lot less evidence-based than it is today. As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard. For most of the last century, investing was a lot more art than science. People did whatever was working based more on gut feelings than data.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. Now I do fundamental side research portfolio management, which I just, 00:08:20 [Speaker Changed] So, so you joined GMO, there’s 60 people, 30 years.

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Blogs On A Plane: Special Bonds Are Blowed Up Edition

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Here I am talking not just portfolio management but overall lifestyle, habits and choices and yes this does filter into my day job managing investment portfolios. Yeah, that sounds pretty good (giving them the benefit of the doubt about the math)… pretty good for an equity. Not great for an equity but pretty good.

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Trying To Find The Optimal Number Of Stocks To Own

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

In my opinion the diversification benefit hits diminishing returns pretty close to 40 individual holdings based on math if nothing else. If a portfolio starts with 40 holdings each with an equal 2.5% Own however many you want of course but the nuisance factor probably starts not much past 30 on the way up.

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