The Big Picture

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. With no further ado, my interview of GCM’s Ken Tropin.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven. What’s the valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

We just get to focus on assets and asset risk management. So earlier we were talking about assets, and then you referenced risk management. RITHOLTZ: Tell us a little bit about the difference between managing risk and merely owning assets. So we have a tried and tested kind of campus recruitment approach.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

And your bio explains how you were recruited to Vanguard. And it’s paid off, it’s paid spades in terms of, it helps us make sure that we’re recruiting the right people, it helps us in terms of retaining folks. DAVIS: Where international equities, because of valuations, probably 7% to 7.5%. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 5, 2024

So that would be the draw, you know, the train lines end there so you can recruit people from, from the city, but it, it was probably a little more selfish. So they’re always making this judgment, will I produce enough cash to, to manage those liabilities? And so that, that’s where we started the firm.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

But I think the reality is right now, we just have an overhang from, I certainly in my world, I can speak to healthcare and FinTech, a number of companies going public and then disappointing or valuation just being excessive compared to the maturity of the businesses. That’s is how in part you differentiate yourself.

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