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Transcript: Jeffrey Becker, Jennison Associates Chair/CEO

The Big Picture

You get a bachelor’s in economics from Colgate and then an MBA in finance from NYU Stern. I was an economics and English major. 00:16:57 But I got the call and from a recruiter, and Jenison was an intriguing company to me. 00:27:56 [Speaker Changed] So let’s talk a little bit about risk management.

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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.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

Elizabeth Burton : I think it’s because I went into risk management straight out school on the risk side of fund to funds and, and various other industries. So I actually went and worked in economics, I was an econometrician. 00:15:31 And so he put me in contact with a recruiter. Absolutely.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven. SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns.

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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

Ilana Weinstein returns to tell us about all the competitive recruiting and superstar talent she’s been working with over the past couple of years. WEINSTEIN: Let me define what we do, because I feel like a fair misconception might be that as a recruiting firm, our job is to help people find jobs.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

The Big Picture

And your bio explains how you were recruited to Vanguard. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. And it’s paid off, it’s paid spades in terms of, it helps us make sure that we’re recruiting the right people, it helps us in terms of retaining folks. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: David Snyderman, Magnetar Capital

The Big Picture

So I switched to be an economics major. I graduated economics with, with a lot of coursework in accounting and finance. So that would be the draw, you know, the train lines end there so you can recruit people from, from the city, but it, it was probably a little more selfish. Huh, 00:03:07 [Speaker Changed] Interesting.

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