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MiB: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

This week, we speak with Elizabeth Burton , managing director and client investment strategist at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. She advises institutional clients on investment strategies and portfolio objectives, working alongside global client advisers and product strategists across public and private markets.

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MiB: Jon McAuliffe, the Voleon Group

The Big Picture

We discuss his career in machine learning, from Amazon’s recommendation engine to using AI to manage portfolios. The firm applies machine learning to a four step process of data assembly, Prediction Engine, Portfolio Construction, and Execution. You can find all of our earlier podcasts on your favorite platforms here.

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MiB: Michael Rockefeller, Woodline Partners

The Big Picture

The firm launched in 2019 with around $2 billion in initial assets, and became one of the fastest-growing emerging funds over the past few years. They now manage $7 billion in assets. Previously, he worked as a Portfolio Manager at Citadel Global Equities and as an Analyst at Millennium Management.

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Fun With Portfolio Theory

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Long time readers might know my fascination with Nassim Taleb's idea about barbelling portfolios to concentrate risk into a small slice while having the vast majority in safe assets. LFMIX in Portfolio 1 is the LoCorr Macro Strategy Fund and in Portfolio 2, QGMIX is AQR Macro Opportunities. So this is interesting.

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

The Atlantic ) • Light and gravitational waves don’t arrive simultaneously : In 2017, a kilonova sent light and gravitational waves across the Universe. He manages a diversified portfolio of late-stage growth equity in technology, consumer, health care, and financial services sectors. trillion in client assets.

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Passive vs. Active

The Big Picture

What’s obvious is that cheaper is better than more expensive; that there are inherent costs in managing an active portfolio that include more than just trading and taxes but research, analysis, PMs, etc. But that is not the same as becoming one of the most dominant asset managers in the world. Concentrated portfolio risk.

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Is Cash the Best Insurance Asset?

Discipline Funds

You’re buying a long-term asset that is designed to lose money, but will create a very large short-term real return in the case of an outlier risk event. Investment portfolio insurance is a more interesting thought exercise.