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10 Monday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Ken Griffin’s Hand-Picked Math Prodigy Runs Market-Making Empire : Citadel Securities CEO Peng Zhao left for college at age 14, caught Griffin’s eye early in his career and built systems now mopping up market share. Social Leverage recently launched its 4th fund.

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Crowdsourcing Data’s Double Edge

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The engineering background, he said, enables him to speak the math- and jargon-heavy language employed by many of the company’s clients, and to make sure his own employees don’t try to pull one over on him. “It He said he hopes to leverage the company’s “first mover role in the marketplace to stay ahead of them.”. consumer.

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Do the Masses Know Best? When it Comes to Lucrative Data, Maybe So.

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The engineering background, he said, enables him to speak the math- and jargon-heavy language employed by many of the company’s clients, and to make sure his own employees don’t try to pull one over on him. “It He said he hopes to leverage the company’s “first mover role in the marketplace to stay ahead of them.”. consumer.

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Transcript: Cathy Marcus, PGIM Real Estate

Barry Ritholtz

Cathy Marcus is co CEO and global COO of p GM Real Estate, a $208 billion investor in real estate, part of the giant real estate investment firm, PIM. There are few people in the world better situated to discuss commercial real estate investing from every perspective. But in those days, there were very tax driven investment.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

He holds all sorts of fascinating titles in addition to chief investment officer for bonds. trillion in various investments. If you’re at all interested in a lecture school in investing or fixed income, or active and passive, this is just a masterclass as to how to do it right. He helps to oversee $2.5 RITHOLTZ: Really?

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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

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.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. We’d love some diversity.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate. Was impeccable, right?