David Mercer is the Chief Executive Officer of LMAX Group, the leading operator of institutional FX and crypto currency execution venues. Following a successful management buyout, David has built LMAX Group into a key player in both the traditi

#18 Jordi Alexander - Finding The Edge

Jan 9th, 2023 1h

Jordi is the Chief Investment Officer of Selini Capital, a digital assets investment firm, as well as an Angel investor and advisor to tech and crypto startups. He has competed at the highest levels of strategy games competitions and transitio

#17 Doyne Farmer - From Chaos to Order

Dec 19th, 2022 41m 30s

Doyne Farmer is Director of the Complexity Economics programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, Baillie Gifford Professor in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford, and an External Professo

#16 Howard Morgan - Founding of Renaissance Technologies

Dec 8th, 2022 41m 53s

Howard Morgan is currently the Chairman of B Capital. He co-founded First Round Capital with Josh Kopelman as the first professional Seed Stage Fund, where he remains Senior Advisor. Prior to First Round, Howard helped found Idealab with Bill G

#15 Tim Draper - To Predict The Future Invent It

Oct 24th, 2020 35m 8s

Tim Draper is one of the most successful venture capitalists from Silicon Valley. 35 of his portfolio companies became unicorns which include firms like: Hotmail, Skype, Baidu, Tesla, Twitter and many more. In this episode, we discuss Tim’s pa

#14 Ewan Kirk - Solve for Happiness

Sep 10th, 2020 1h 18m

Ewan Kirk, President of GAM Systematic, is a known and recognised figure in quantitative finance. He started his career in finance at Goldman Sachs, spent 13 years there and retired as a partner. Subsequently he launched Cantab Capital Partners

#13 Andrew McCaffery - Discipline and Courage to Persevere

Aug 17th, 2020 50m 47s

Andrew McCaffery is the Chief Investment Officer of Fidelity International. Coming from humble beginnings Andrew quickly rose through the ranks and over the past 3 decades has been advising, allocating and closely working with some of the most

#12 Mark Mobius - Building and Running One of the Largest Emerging Markets Fund Worldwide

Jul 31st, 2020 33m 47s

Mark Mobius is one of the most recognised figures in money management and in 2011 has been named as one of the “50 Most Influential People”. Mark spent over 30 years at Franklin Templeton running its Emerging Markets Investment Trust which grew

#11 Fiona Frick - Becoming a Female CEO of a $20 Billion Asset Manager

Jul 17th, 2020 37m 6s

Fiona Frick is the CEO of Unigestion, a Swiss based boutique asset manager with $20bn in AUM, and she has been recognised as one of the most influential women in finance on numerous occasions. In this interview, we discussed how Unigestion crea

#10 Alexander Lipton – The Pursuit of Knowledge

Jul 7th, 2020 56m 32s

Alex Lipton is a prominent figure in quant finance. He spent over 20 years on the sell-side, held a number of prestigious positions in academia and received the first quant of the year award by Risk.net. He is the CTO of fintech startup Silamon

#9 Victor Niederhoffer – The Market Speculator

Jul 1st, 2020 53m 58s

Victor Niederhoffer is one of the most famous investors and a true pioneer. After rubbing shoulders with a few of the future Nobel Laureates at the University of Chicago, he started a trading firm and made $20 million from the starting capital

#8 Mark Yusko - Uncovering The Secret Behind Investment in Innovation

Jun 23rd, 2020 1h 6m

Mark Yusko, Founder and CEO of Morgan Creek Capital Management, is a household name in hedge fund investing and spent over 30 years identifying, seeding and growing some of the most successful funds. In this episode, we discuss the mindset and

#7 Marty Lueck - Pioneering CTA in 1980th and Building a $10 Billion Quant Fund

Jun 16th, 2020 49m 29s

Marty Lueck, Research Director and President of Aspect Capital, is a true pioneer and over the past 3 decades helped to transfer and evolve managed futures. He co-founded one of the best known CTAs - AHL, which stands for the surname of the thr

#6 David Hand - Dark Data and Why What You Don't Know Matters

Jun 9th, 2020 46m 29s

Professor David Hand, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College London, has published over 300 scientific papers and 30 books, won many prestigious awards and was a president of the Royal Statistical

#5 Campbell Harvey - Think Big and Pursue Big Ideas

Jun 3rd, 2020 1h 15m

Professor Campbell Harvey is a Professor of Finance at Duke University. He has 70 thousand citations and is one of the most recognised researchers in finance. Professor Harvey spent over 33 years in academia, published over 125 papers and advis

#4 Steve Mobbs - Life and Career of a Quant Hedge Fund Manager

May 27th, 2020 45m 3s

Steve Mobbs was the co-founder of OxAM, a quantitative hedge fund that peaked at $5 billion in AUM. In this episode, Steve gives his behind the scene of the hedge fund world and expands on his experience. You will learn how and why his first fu

#3 Aaron Brown – Risk Management, Gambling and Wall Street

May 19th, 2020 52m 26s

Aaron Brown is the author of The Poker Face of Wall Street and former Chief Risk Officer at AQR. He was a top professional poker player in the 1970s and also honed his quantitative risk-taking skills in sports betting and advantage gambling. He

#2 Francesco Filia - Don't Be Afraid of Change

May 12th, 2020 52m 37s

Francesco Filia, CEO of Fasanara Capital, started his career at J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch and then co-founded Fasanara Capital in 2011. In this episode, we learn about Francesco’s days on the sell-side and the underlying principles on which

#1 Victor Haghani – Why No One Should Get Rich Twice

May 11th, 2020 52m 5s

Victor Haghani has been actively involved in the market for over 35 years and was one of the founding partners of Long-Term Capital Management. LTCM was one of biggest hedge funds, with $128 billion assets, until 1998 almost collapsing and caus

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