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Back to SearchThe Alpha Exchange 2022 Year in Review
Episode 110
Welcome to a special year-end episode of the Alpha Exchange where we look back on market risk dynamics that defined 2022, a painful year by nearly al…
3 years, 3 months ago
Mary Childs, Author, “The Bond King”
Episode 109
In the world of bonds, few firms are as powerful and enduring as PIMCO. And few investors are as storied as Bill Gross whose impact on active fixed i…
3 years, 3 months ago
Scott Peng, PhD, Founder and CEO/CIO, Advocate Capital Management
Episode 108
We next turn to Scott’s time at Secor Asset Management, running portfolio solutions and working with global pension plans on asset/liability risk. Sc…
3 years, 3 months ago
Seema Shah, Chief Global Strategist, Principal Asset Management
Episode 107
Originally trained as an economist and now the Chief Global Strategist at Principal Asset Management, Seema Shah spends her time looking at the inter…
3 years, 4 months ago
Robert Dannenberg, Former Chief of Central Eurasia Division, CIA
Episode 106
Market risks come in all shapes and sizes. A good starting point might be to categorize them as economic, financial, or monetary. But increasingly, a…
3 years, 4 months ago
Dan Corcoran, Founder and President, Volos Software
Episode 105
For Dan Corcoran, a fascination with option pricing began in high school. By college, he was coding up pricing models and trading strategies in MatLa…
3 years, 4 months ago
Maziar Minovi, CEO, Eurasia Group
Episode 104
A teenager in Iran during the 1979 revolution, Maziar Minovi experienced first-hand how disruptive the impact of politics can be on economic security…
3 years, 5 months ago
35 Years Later…Retrospective on the 1987 Stock Market Crash
Episode 103
Welcome to a special episode of the Alpha Exchange, one where we look back on the historic event that was the 1987 stock market crash. We review the …
3 years, 5 months ago
Dennis Davitt, CIO, Millbank Dartmoor Portsmouth
Episode 102
Dennis Davitt has spent more than 3 decades in option markets. Getting his start in the crude pit on the NYMEX, he soon thereafter moved to equity de…
3 years, 5 months ago
Hugh Hendry, Founder, Eclectica Asset Management
Episode 101
We live in unique and highly uncertain times. Rates and FX markets - especially in the developed world -are experiencing volatility at levels associa…
3 years, 6 months ago