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Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez

Bilal Hafeez

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58:36

Stefan Jansen on How to Use ChatGPT and AI in Finance

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2023/05/19

Stefan Jansen is the author of the widely read ‘Machine Learning For Algorithmic Trading’. He is the founder and Lead Data Scientist at Applied AI. He advises Fortune 500 companies, investment firms and startups across industries on data & AI strategy and developing machine learning solutions. Before his current venture, he was a partner at Infusive, an international investment firm, where he built the predictive analytics and investment research practice. He also was a senior executive at Rev

01:03:46

Gavyn Davies on Inflation, Asset Allocation and ChatGPT

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2023/05/12

Gavyn Davies is a Founder and the Chairman of Fulcrum – a $5bn independent asset management firm. Prior to Fulcrum, Gavyn was Chairman of the BBC from 2001. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1986 and became Partner in 1988 when he also became the Chief Economist as well as Chairman of the Research Department until he left in 2001. Gavyn was a member of H.M.Treasury Independent Forecasting Panel (1992-1997). He joined the Government’s Policy Unit as an Economist (1974) and was an Economic Policy Adviser to

45:26

Gene Ma on US-China Decoupling, China’s Green Boom,...

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2023/05/05

Gene Ma is the Head of China Research at the IIF. Prior to joining the IIF, Gene served as China Strategist at top macro hedge fund Tudor Investment. He has also held the positions of Managing Director at ISI Group, Chief Analyst at CEBM Group (now part of Caixin), Chief Macro Analyst at Citic Securities, and served at China's Ministry of Finance in Beijing. In this podcast we discuss the current state of China's economy, China’s excess capacity build-up during COVID, the state of household balance

36:30

Zar Amrolia on Reinventing Trading

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2023/04/28

Zar Amrolia was recently the co-Chief of XTX Markets – one of the top algorithmic trading companies in the world. Before XTX, Zar was Co-Head of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities at Deutsche Bank and a Partner at Goldman Sachs. He started off as a quant at JPMorgan in 1988. He has PhD in Mathematics from Oxford University. In this podcast we discuss creating one-click trading, how computers impacted pricing derivatives, future of investment banks, and much more. Follow us here for more

37:22

Ken Tropin on How to Run a Successful Macro Hedge Fund

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2023/04/21

This episode is sponsored by Amber Group Ken Tropin is a legend in the macro space. He is the Chairman and the founder of Graham Capital Management (GCM) - $18bn fund. Ken founded GCM in 1994 and over the last 28 years has grown the firm into an industry leading alternative investment manager focusing on global macro discretionary and quantitative hedge fund strategies. Prior to founding GCM, Ken had significant experience in the alternative investment industry, including five years (1989 to 1993)

48:56

Robert Koenigsberger on What Everyone Gets Wrong...

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2023/04/14

Robert Koenigsberger is Founder, Chief Investment Officer and the Managing Partner of the $5bn EM fund, Gramercy. He founded Gramercy in 1998. Robert has 36 years of investment experience dedicated to emerging markets with a specialization in distressed opportunistic credit strategies. He is a member of Gramercy’s Management Team and is Co-Chair of the Risk Management Committee. In this podcast we discuss common misconceptions about EM, illusion of liquidity, the politics of Latin America, and

43:53

Peter Spiller on Value Investing, Navigating...

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2023/04/07

Peter Spiller is the one of the most respected value investors in markets. He is the Founder and CIO of boutique investment house CG Asset Management. Prior to founding CGAM in 2000, Peter was a partner and strategy director at Cazenove & Co Capital Management and a US equity investor at Capel Cure & Myers. Peter has managed Capital Gearing Trust plc since 1982, which has delivered annual returns of 15%. In this podcast we discuss how to measure fair value of equities, understanding impact of tech,

36:50

Geoff Rubin on 60:40 Portfolios, Endowment Model and...

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2023/03/31

Geoff Rubin is Senior Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist at CPP Investments. The Canadian Pension Plan is one of the world’s leading pension managers with over $530bn in assets. Geoff is responsible for designing and implementing CPP Investments’ long-term investment strategy. He joined CPP Investments in 2011, at the inception of the former Total Portfolio Management department. Previously, Geoff held finance roles with Fannie Mae and Capital One Financial where he managed the

01:09:36

Jim Leitner on Creating a Macro Edge, Trading Options...

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2023/03/24

This episode is sponsored by Amber Group Jim Leitner serves as President of Falcon Management Corporation and CIO of Falcon Family L.P., a family office. Previously, he worked as a foreign exchange trader at Morgan Guaranty, as Chief Dealer at Bank of America International, as Vice President for proprietary trading at Shearson Lehman and as Managing Director in the Global Trading Department at Bankers Trust. Jim was a member of the Yale Investment Committee from 2004 through to 2010. In this podcast

29:53

Lindsay Politi on the Silicon Valley Bank Fall-Out,...

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2023/03/17

Lindsay Politi is Head of Inflation Strategies at One River Asset Management. Lindsay began her career at Wellington Management in Boston where she was head of Global Inflation-linked Investments. In that role she was one of the top TIPS managers by assets, managing over $10 billion in dedicated assets, with a top quintile track record for excess in her peer group. She then joined Tudor Investment Corporation in Greenwich as a discretionary macro investor, translating her inflation strategy onto a

52:19

Niall Ferguson on Cold War 2, Middle East Conflict...

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2023/03/10

Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center at Harvard, where he served for twelve years as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History. He is the author of sixteen books. This includes the international bestseller, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. His most recent book is Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe. In addition to his academic work, he is the founder and managing

01:03:44

Mustafa Chowdhury on Mortgage Risks, Fed Shocks and...

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2023/03/03

Mustafa is a rates guru and member of the research team at Macro Hive. Before this, Mustafa was the Head of Rates, FX, and Derivatives at Voya Investments, where he helped manage $40 billion of assets. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director and Head of US Rates and MBS Strategy at Deutsche Bank. And in the 1990s, he was Co-head of Asset-Liability Management at Freddie Mac, where he was responsible for managing one of the world’s largest fixed income derivatives portfolios and trading desks. In

48:35

Timothy Ash on Russia’s Failure, China Intervention...

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2023/02/24

Timothy Ash is a Senior EM Sovereign Strategist at the $125bn fund, BlueBay, and is widely considered one of the leading experts on Ukraine and Russia. Prior to joining BlueBay, Tim was Head of CEEMEA Credit Strategy at Nomura International. Before this he was Head of EM Research (ex-Africa) at ICBC-Standard Bank until May 2015; Head of Emerging Markets Research at the Royal Bank of Scotland until June 2012; and Head of EMEA fixed income research at Bear Stearns International (later JPMorgan Chase)

46:25

Mikihiro Matsuoka on Japan Inflation, BoJ Outlook and...

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2023/02/17

Matsuoka-San is the Chief Economist of SBI Securities in Japan. Before that, he was the Chief Economist for Japan at Deutsche Bank. Overall, he has been involved in macroeconomic analysis at research institutions and financial institutions for the past 30 years. He is known to be one of the leading Japan economists with unique insights on structural issues. Over the years he has been highly ranked in numerous surveys including the Institutional Investor survey. In this podcast we discuss current

01:07:23

Richard Oldfield on Value Investing, Warren Buffet...

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2023/02/10

Richard founded Oldfield Partners in 2004.The firm is a value-style asset management firm with over $4bn in assets under management. Richard was Chairman of the Oxford University Investment Committee and of Oxford University Endowment from the latter’s inception in 2007 until 2014. He holds a BA Hons in History from Oxford University. His book about investing, ‘Simple But Not Easy’, was published in 2007 and new edition was published in 2022. In the podcast, we talk about the trouble with private

01:06:14

Deborah Seligsohn on What Everyone Gets Wrong on...

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2023/02/03

Deborah Seligsohn is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Villanova University. Her research focuses on Chinese politics, US-China relations, and public health, energy and environmental politics in China and India. Prior to her academic career, she served as the Beijing-based Principal Advisor to the World Resources Institute’s China Energy and Climate Program from 2007 to 2012. Before that, she served as the Environment, Science, Technology and Health Counselor at the US Embassy in

53:29

Phil Suttle on Fed Murdering Expansions and Bond Worries

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2023/01/27

Phil is the founder of Suttle Economics – a leading research consultancy. Before that, he held senior roles at Tudor, the Institute of International Finance (IIF), JP Morgan, Barclays, the New York Fed and World Bank. He was educated at Oxford University and lives in the US. In the podcast, we talk about the impact of US sectoral shocks, hard landing risks, European growth outlook, and much more.

01:08:41

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen and Alan Dunne on How to Make...

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2023/01/20

Niels is the Managing Director of DUNN Capital (Europe) which has a track record going back over 45 years. He has been in the managed futures business for over 30 years having held management positions in and started multiple CTA firms. He is most widely known for the Top Traders Unplugged podcast. Alan is the Founder and CEO of Archive Capital – a boutique alternative investment research firm. Prior to founding Archive Capital, he was Managing Director and a member of the investment committee at

01:13:19

Yesha Yadav on the Galactic Risks of the US Treasury...

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2023/01/13

Yesha Yadav is Associate Dean and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School. She is one of the world’s leading experts on financial and securities regulation. Before Vanderbilt, Yesha worked as legal counsel with the World Bank and before that she practiced regulatory and derivatives law at Clifford Chance. This week's podcast covers why the US Treasury market is fundamentally broken, the rise of HFT and algo trading, the diverges uses of Treasuries, and much more.

01:34:06

Andrew Revkin on What to Do About Climate Risk

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2023/01/06

Andrew Revkin is one of America’s most honoured and experienced environmental journalists and the founding director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute. He’s written on climate change for more than 35 years, reporting from the North Pole to the White House, the Amazon rain forest to the Vatican - mostly for The New York Times. He has held positions at National Geographic and Discover Magazine. He’s written books on the dawn of Earth's

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