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Why Portfolio Diversification is for the Ignorant Investor

Risk Management Guru

The Risk Management Guru (RMG) blog was founded in October 2015 with a very clear sense of purpose: to become the go-to blog for the best articles about Risk Management. Without you, this adventure would not be possible nor would the Risk Management Blog have its unique personality. our gurus). our gurus).

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Transcript: Maria Vassalou

The Big Picture

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Maria Vassalou, Goldman Sachs Asset Management , is below. And that led her to various jobs at Wasserstein Perella McKinsey’s Asset Management Group. And all these questions that I was trying to answer had direct applications to hedge fund strategies and portfolio management.

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Transcript: Armen Panossian

The Big Picture

I wanna say it’s about $179 billion in client assets. You’ve probably heard some aspects of this from the various interviews I’ve done with Howard Marks talking about the distressed asset fund they set up in 2007. That had mismatched assets. It’s not an asset that other creditors can go after.

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Transcript: Joe Barratta of Blackstone

The Big Picture

When he began, PE was a little bit of a niche boutique sort of investment, and over the ensuing 25 years, it has grown to be really a major asset class with giant opportunities that have been expressed by then small, now very large companies, of which Blackstone is one of the largest. It is an institutionalized asset class.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

No income, no job, no assets were exactly ninja, Sean Dobson : No pulse seems reasonable. We see it as, like I said, about 50 million assets and we’re modeling up the value of every home in the country, every, every week, basically. We’re we’re the quant shop in real estate, in the quant shop in physical assets.

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Transcript: Ken Kencel

The Big Picture

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Ken Kencel, Churchill Asset Management , is below. BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Ken Kencel of Churchill Asset Management, CEO, Founder, President. This is really a fascinating story. It’s fantastic.

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

The Big Picture

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, President of Goldman Sachs , is below. We dive deep into all sorts of things about running businesses, managing risk, and then when we began talking about his public sector service, we went deep into the Tax Cuts and Job Act of 2017.

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