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242: Kris Sidial - Volatility Shocks: Positioning for Convex Payouts
Chat With TradersSeptember 13, 2022
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242: Kris Sidial - Volatility Shocks: Positioning for Convex Payouts

Today, we’re talking volatility with Kris Sidial, Chief Investment Officer at The Ambrus Group. His funds’ primary objective is to make outsized returns in the event of a market crash, and it therefore serves as a portfolio hedge for investors with heavily weighted long exposure. Kris tells of his p...

202: Wayne Himelsein – Betting Against Stability
Chat With TradersSeptember 04, 2020
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202: Wayne Himelsein – Betting Against Stability

Wayne Himelsein begun his career on a proprietary trading desk at Carlin Financial Group in the mid-90’s, doing statistical arbitrage—complimentary to his mathematical nature. Come 1999, Wayne launched his first fund to begin managing money for clients and institutions. Then in 2011, Wayne founded L...

201: Hayden Beamish – The Legwork, Execution and Management of Institutional Investments
Chat With TradersAugust 21, 2020
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201: Hayden Beamish – The Legwork, Execution and Management of Institutional Investments

For the past 5-years, Hayden Beamish has been a portfolio manager and director at Endeavor Asset Management—a hedge fund based in Melbourne, with ~$300m AUM. The Hedge portfolio that Hayden manages ended the 2020 financial year up 28% after fees—in comparison, the benchmark Australian All Ordinaries...

198: Christina Qi – Dorm Room Start-Up Defies Odds, Rises as Large-Scale Quant Fund
Chat With TradersJuly 03, 2020
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198: Christina Qi – Dorm Room Start-Up Defies Odds, Rises as Large-Scale Quant Fund

In her early-20’s, after graduating from MIT, Christina Qi and two classmates; Luca Lin and Jonathan Wang—who had collectively been trading futures from a campus dorm room—founded Domeyard. It was 2012, and Domeyard was to be one of the few high frequency trading hedge funds… As Christina states dur...

180: Larry Hite – Reflection on Markets & Life—With a Man Who’s Had Vast Financial Success
Chat With TradersSeptember 24, 2019
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180: Larry Hite – Reflection on Markets & Life—With a Man Who’s Had Vast Financial Success

There’s no other way to say it; Larry Hite is the definition of a market veteran, he’s someone who first developed an interest for trading and markets during the 60’s… Besides a reputation for extreme risk management, Larry is perhaps best known as co-founding Mint Investments—a hedge fund formed in...