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Top 10 Industries that Produced the Most Billionaires – Is Yours on the List?

Trade Brains

Even in 2025, many of the world’s richest people are portfolio managers, stock traders, or financial firm founders. Especially in rapidly expanding economies, industrialists and factory owners have created dynasties by ramping up production, streamlining supply chains, and shipping abroad.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

The Big Picture

We do discretionary macro trading, which is typically a portfolio manager — and we have some number of portfolio managers, 15 or 18 different portfolio managers that independently manage a book of, you know, risk assets. And you know, we would not be at all surprised to see the economy contract.

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Transcript: John Montgomery, Bridgeway Capital Management

The Big Picture

Let, let’s, for people who may not be familiar with the firm and your background, let’s start with how your interesting and unusual career BS in engineering, ba in philosophy from Swarthmore. You, you were pretty early to computer modeling and statistical methods as a research engineer at MAT, this is the late 1970s.

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Recession – The Fed says “it’s different this time”

David Nelson

economy like it’s a super tanker. It’s different this time Recent rhetoric from the Fed and many economists is the idea that the Fed can engineer a soft landing. Come July portfolio managers will shift their focus to 2024 and the 12 month look ahead for earnings which should look a lot better than 2023.

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Transcript: David Einhorn, Greenlight Capital

The Big Picture

I’m the portfolio manager and I’m actually the only portfolio manager. But, but I view my, I i, I enjoy my analyst job as certainly as much as I enjoy the portfolio 00:18:07 [Speaker Changed] Manager job. Like employment is really pretty full right now and the economy is kind of humming along.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

Conviction, so we look at, you know, whether or not a specific theme is something that we have a high degree of conviction that will be a trend, that will definitely have an impact in the economy over the next two or three decades. I mean, I always say it depends on the economies or the scale of the business that you are considering.

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Transcript: Jeffrey Becker, Jennison Associates Chair/CEO

The Big Picture

So our analysts and our firm are as important as our portfolio managers. 00:24:18 It’s not necessarily as track to portfolio management. Or are we gonna see cuts because the economy is beginning to slow? My audio engineer is Steve Gonzalez. What, why are you guys expecting cuts?