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  • Season 2

S02E10: Building a Robust Research Platform

  • June 20, 2019
  • Tagged as: long/short equity, momentum, style premia, value
Chris Meredith is co-Chief Investment Officer and Director of Research at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management.  In this episode, we focus on the latter title and talk all about what it means to develop a strong research...

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Corey Hoffstein
  • Season 2

S02E09: All About Alternative Data

  • June 20, 2019
  • Tagged as: alternative data, long/short equity
In this episode I am joined by Katherine Glass-Hardenbergh, Associate Portfolio Manager at Acadian Asset Management.   In her role, Katherine focuses heavily on the application of alternative data in Acadian’s fundamentally-driven, systematic investment process....

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S02E07: The Quant Philosopher

  • June 17, 2019
  • Tagged as: volatility
In this episode I chat with Wayne Himelsein, president and chief investment officer at Logica Capital.  To our conversation Wayne brings over two decades of experience managing long/short portfolios, ranging from statistical arbitrage to factor...

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S02E08: In Search of Modern Alpha

  • June 17, 2019
  • Tagged as: long/short equity, momentum, style premia, value
In this episode I am joined by Liqian Ren, Director of Modern Alpha at WisdomTree. After receiving her degree in Computer Science, Liqian came to the United States to pursue her Masters in Economics.  Liqian...

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S02E06: The Growth Factor

  • June 11, 2019
  • Tagged as: growth, long/short equity
My guest in this episode is Jason Thomson, a portfolio manager at the William O’Neil family office. On paper, Jason doesn’t seem like a particularly good fit for this podcast.  He runs a highly concentrated...

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S02E05: Conditional Beta

  • June 8, 2019
  • Tagged as: trend following, volatility
My guest is Artur Sepp, Director of Research at Quantica Capital AG in Zurich. In 2008, Artur was working on structured credit products for Merrill Lynch, giving him a front-row seat to the ensuing credit...

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S03E04: It’s All Greek to Me

  • June 4, 2019
  • Tagged as: long/short equity, momentum, value
In this episode, I am joined by Tammira Philipe and Elena Khoziaeva, both of Bridgeway Capital Management, a quantitative asset manager founded in 1993 offering systematically managed equity strategies.   But that’s not how Tammira...

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S02E03: Attack of the Liquid Alternative Clones

  • May 30, 2019
  • Tagged as: hedge funds
In this episode I chat with Ben McMillan, a founding partner of IDX Insights, a firm offering “indexing as a service.” Ben cut his teeth in manager analysis at a fund-of-hedge-funds and we spend a...

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S02E02: Volatility Investing

  • May 29, 2019
  • Tagged as: volatility
I am joined today by Benn Eifert, founder of QVR Advisors.  QVR specializes in managing option-based strategies and Benn describes what he does as volatility investing. We quickly wade into the deep end with this...

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S02E01: Thinking like a Fox

  • May 23, 2019
  • Tagged as: hedge funds
My guest in this episode is Daniel Grioli.  Daniel cut his teeth in the industry at Deutsche Bank in London, where he was responsible for valuing structured equity and hedge fund of fund products targeted...

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