MiB: Luke Ellis, CEO of Man Group
This week on our Masters in Business interview, we speak with Luke Ellis, CEO of Man Group, a global active investment manager, with...
Biased Algorithms, Biased World
Very interesting listen by data scientist Cathy O’Neil about her book, Weapons of Math Destruction, which describes the dangers of...
Transcript: Greg Zuckerman
The transcript from this week’s MIB: WSJ’s Greg Zuckerman on Simon’s Renaissance Technologies, is below. You can...
Review: The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched...
How Jim Simons Built the Best Hedge Fund Ever The former code breaker and math professor figured out how to do one thing very well in...
Winner Takes All Applies to Stocks, Too
Winner-Take-All Phenomenon Rules the Stock Market, Too Any gains are attributable to a relative handful of companies. Bloomberg, July 29,...
Transcript: Andrew Ang
The transcript from this week’s MIB: Blackrock’s Andrew Ang, is below. You can stream/download the full conversation,...
MIB: Blackrock’s Andrew Ang
This week, we speak with Andrew Ang, director of BlackRock’s $210 billion dollar factor strategies group. The former Professor of...
Math, Money, and Making a Difference
MIT alumnus James Simons is a mathematician and founder of the highly quantitative investment firm Renaissance Technologies where he...
Advanced Analytics in Asset Management
If you haven’t read the longish McKinsey piece I linked to earlier this week, then consider this a homework assignment. I...
MIB: Its A Model Driven World
There’s a corollary to Marc Andreessen’s argument that software is eating the world — the models will be in charge of running it....