Episode Details

My guest today is Sachin Khajuria, Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Achilles Management, a private investment business utilizing proprietary Artificial Intelligence technology. He's a former partner at Apollo, one of the world's largest alternative asset management firms, and an investor in funds managed by Blackstone and Carlyle, among other investment firms. He has twenty-five years of investment and finance experience. Sachin holds two degrees in Economics from the University of Cambridge. He divides his time between New York, Switzerland and London.

The topic is his book Two and Twenty: How the Masters of Private Equity Always Win.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• How private equity works
• How Leon Black and Michael Milken figured out the ways to find inefficiencies, make a profit and bring financial engineering
• Top 10 list of private equity firms in terms of returns on fees
• Explanation behind his book
• Sachin's philosophical mindset issues in separating from Apollo
• How does private equity performs during these moments when the typical index funds get taken? 
• Percentage of the private equity assets of public pension funds

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