Remove 2000 Remove Economics Remove Portfolio Management Remove Risk Management
article thumbnail

It's the Little Things: Why US Small-Cap Stocks Deserve More Attention

Brown Advisory

The history of small-cap investing is blurry, but a significant moment came in the post-World War II era with the rise of mutual funds and the advent of portfolio diversification theories, such as Harry Markowitz’s Modern Portfolio Theory in the 1950s. In other words, the expansion opportunity is greater. equity universe.

article thumbnail

Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

I want to get into that before we start talking about asset management. A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. And you do a lot of work with infinity [Barry Ritholtz] : 00:03:29 [Speaker Changed] And then economics, which is a little bit squishier.

Investing 130
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

The Big Picture

But it was a tremendous experience because I had started off in bond trading, worked my way into portfolio management and running the bond indexing team for a number of years, and then I got asked to take this responsibility, which was much broader. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings.

Portfolio 130
article thumbnail

Transcript: Dominique Mielle

The Big Picture

She was a partner and a portfolio manager at Canyon Capital, a firm that runs currently about $25 billion. Even the guy you think of so highly, you know, after three hedge funds open and close, you got to wonder if there’s some risk management issue there. MIELLE: — interviewed. But that’s the thing.

Assets 271
article thumbnail

Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

The Big Picture

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.