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We take, we take large positions in, in, in concentrated portfolios, and we’re really striving to be that high alpha equity manager for, for pension plans and for wealth allocators. And often we’re part of an assetallocation and, you know, we’re, you know, we’re the alpha in the corners, if you will.
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BITTERLY MICHELL: … obviously, the United States, the global economy. And so, when you think of the area that I was very passionate about in derivatives, there’s a natural understanding just by growing up in an economy like that, that interest rate risk matters. Like lives are completely changed across …. RITHOLTZ: Right. risk matters.
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But I feel like it’s already accelerating, at least for me personally… I’ve always been somewhat tech savvy, but I’ve never been close to a software engineer. I feel like I suddenly learned Chinese and now the entire Chinese economy is open for me to work with. It’s a crazy experience. Sorry, not sorry.
And the place where I was looking for this risk factors was in the real economy. So I was relating asset prices to GDP growth, to investment growth, to default rest, to factors like this. And so, I was providing explanations for asset pricing anomalies such as the small cap effect, or the value effect.
That led me down that track and really well, I had a software engineering job. Let, 00:04:08 [Speaker Changed] Let’s lead up to that transition software engineer at IBM, then you get your PhD, then research at Siemens, which seems to be more of a technological position than a finance position. We, we call assetallocation at GMO.
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stocks more than doubled, but other asset classes (with the notable exception of commodities) have provided excellent returns as well. economy following the financial crisis. The small valuation gain may be considered reasonable in light of growing investor confidence as the economy has recovered from the depths of 2008-2009.
It depends on your assetallocation. I also don’t think you should ever really beat yourself up for sticking to your assetallocation and your beliefs. And they took it out of their assetallocation in favor of other strategies. Sam Danziger is my audio engineer. 00:26:07 [Speaker Changed] No.
So it was Pascal then c plus plus, and then I took an economics class and that’s when the lights went off because it was a very mathematical field in many ways, but also with a link to the Rio economy. So what’s happening with the global economy, what’s happening with interest rates, what is the Fed going to do?
You need to get those assetsallocated, you know, on a risk basis. The economy seems to be doing all right as we talked about, you know, people were worried about recession, it hasn’t materialized yet. And so that caused a general rethinking of the way the economy is going to move going forward. They are, yeah.
We’ve spent much of the last year explaining how higher rates were slowly putting the screws to the broader economy. The economy doesn’t land like a plane. 5%+ interest rates are not a normalized economy and now looks far too restrictive. None of this is terribly surprising to readers here.
Jeremy called and said, “Would you like to join the assetallocation team?” So he wanted a sort of non-quanty view input into the assetallocation process. And GMO was still sitting on a massive emerging market position in the assetallocation team. CHANCELLOR: Well, I said no initially. CHANCELLOR: Yes.
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So they’d give individual assetallocation to people and they’d go invest their money. So what we’re trying to do is use historical data to predict how an asset reacts in different states of the economy. Now, I think at the end of the day, it was just too big of a risk to the economy.
DAVIS: It’s a long story, but originally I went to school for engineering. Got to school, realized that I wasn’t very good at mechanical drawing, which is a big part of aerospace engineering curriculum. Yes, the economy can clearly keep roaring along, which we’ve seen. What led to an interest in insurance?
It also was the path for me into the asset management space, because coincidentally, Mitch Juli of Canyon Partners was researching on the internet in the early days of the internet for valuation engines and insights. There’s a continual, the economy continues to grow. It goes so far. Did you give me cash?
And we brought them a plan that, you know, I think, was very similar to what the banks were doing at the time, which was providing financing to private equity-owned companies, huge area of growth in the economy. middle market is the third largest economy in the world. Justin Milner is my audio engineer. RITHOLTZ: Right.
And it’s kind of funny, if you, and now you see it in New York City, but if you showed up in a meeting in a coat and tie, post the dot-com era and coming into the more recent stuff, you were viewed as sort of the old economy. And so, you take Advisor Engine, it has a CRM system that was built by a financial advisor.
KOENIGSBERGER: What I really like is on top of these four return streams that we have, we kind of have a multi-asset, dynamic assetallocation process. KOENIGSBERGER: So that’s what — with our multi-asset strategy, we wanted to solve for that problem, which is — I call it a governance problem.
RITHOLTZ: (LAUGHTER) CHABRAN: And find a reason why they would allocate there. So I think we’ve now entered a period where we have to swallow this whole mispriced, over-levered assets out there. So I’m actually very optimistic that all asset owners, assetallocators, the one can be nimble.
She was CIO at Merrill Lynch Asset Management, and now CIO at both Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and runs their assetallocation models and their outsourced chief investment officer models. 00:20:56 [Speaker Changed] So, so let’s talk a little bit about what goes into managing a hundred plus billion dollars in assets.
They’re assetallocation model driven folks. They 00:38:39 [Speaker Changed] Price insensitive, they 00:38:41 [Speaker Changed] Right, they cared what the lower mortgage rate did to the economy. Kayleigh Lepar is my audio engineer. Yeah, it’s super patient, it’s super sophisticated. I’m Barry.
00:01:58 [Savita Subramanian] Well, I started out as an electrical engineering computer science major. 00:03:00 [Speaker Changed] I read a quote from you way back when you said your parents were pushing you to be either an engineer or a doctor. My dad was an engineer and my mom was a software person, so Oh, really?
He wasn’t tactical assetallocator. It’s about long-term planning and strategic assetallocation and, and just understanding how markets work and how behavior comes into the mix. He is just, he’s just bearish all the time. It wasn’t the case. Versus more of the day traders, the wing it kind.
He launched his own firm right into the teeth of the collapse in ’09, which turned out to be quite a fortuitous time to launch an asset management shop. economy was actually starting to slow and slow pretty dramatically. Not that we saw the pandemic coming, but we saw the economy slowing, and so we ended up doing very well.
Or should this be kept out of private assetallocators’ hands? An economy does better if the most people are prosperous, right? Sara Livezey is my audio engineer. MORGENSON: This is a really, really crucial question for the whole private equity industry. I mean, it’s just not healthy.
Undergraduate applied mathematics, master’s degree in financial engineering, a little bit of, of teaching. So how Barry Ritholtz : Do you go from a PhD program to financial engineering masters? They ended up going back to a school in LA called Claremont, and they had a financial engineering program there.
And few do it better than Neil does in terms of putting together a global view of what’s happening in the economy, what’s happening around the world, what’s happening with the Fed, and what’s happening with the stock market. DUTTA: Well, I think you just have to go back to the initial reopening of the economy, right?
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