21st Century Investing Strategies From Dmitry Balyasny

Masters in Business

Bloomberg

Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

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🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Barry speaks with Dmitry Balyasny, managing partner and chief investment officer at Balyasny Asset Management (BAM), a firm he co-founded in 2001. They discuss his career path, his thoughts on the current market environment for trading, hedge funds and more.

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1:30.0	On the latest Masters and Business podcast, strap yourself in another great one,
1:35.9	Dmitri Ballyasni, he's co-founder of the hedge fund, Ballyasni Asset Management.
1:42.1	They're a $28 billion multi-strat firm, 170 portfolio teams, 2,300 people working in their offices around the world, started as a trader at Schoenfeld, grew into both a manager and just a person looking at the world and identifying inefficiencies and
2:05.1	coming up with ways to capitalize in it. Fascinating conversation. Not only are they one of the
2:10.9	most successful multistrats, but they have a somewhat unusual business manager. They have lots of
2:17.4	partners who are employees,
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