Andrew Beer on the Hedge Fund Industry (Podcast)
Masters in Business
Bloomberg
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Andrew Beer, who serves as the managing member at Dynamic Beta investments LLC (formerly branded Beachhead Capital Management) and is co-portfolio manager of the firm's investment strategies. Beer has more than 25 years of experience in the alternative investment business. For more than a dozen years, his focus has been identifying strategies to match or outperform portfolios of leading hedge funds with low fees, daily liquidity and less downside risk. He started in the hedge fund industry in 1994, when he joined the Baupost Group as one of six generalist portfolio managers working for Seth Klarman.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Masters in Business with Barry Rittoltz on Bloomberg Radio. |
| 0:07.4 | This week on the podcast, I have a special guest. |
| 0:10.0 | His name is Andrew Beer. |
| 0:11.6 | He has really a fascinating background and career in finance. |
| 0:16.5 | He's a managing member at Dynamic Beta Investments, which is one of the oldest firms doing liquid |
| 0:21.9 | alternatives, really quite fascinating. |
| 0:24.8 | Their goal is to roll out things that look like hedge funds, but with full transparency, |
| 0:32.5 | liquidity, and none of the high fees. |
| 0:35.3 | It's really a fascinating space, sort of bringing the philosophy of Jack Bogle to the hedge |
| 0:41.1 | fund space. |
| 0:42.5 | If you're at all interested in liquid alts or managed futures or want to learn how these |
| 0:47.1 | things work, I think you'll find this to be a fascinating and wonky conversation. |
| 0:52.4 | So with no further ado, my conversation with Dynamic Beta's Andrew Beer. |
| 0:59.1 | This is Masters in Business with Barry Rittoltz on Bloomberg Radio. |
| 1:04.2 | My special guest this week is Andrew Beer. |
| 1:07.3 | He is a managing member at Dynamic Beta Investments, one of the older firms in the liquid |
| 1:13.4 | alts space. |
| 1:14.9 | Their goal is to deliver hedge fund-like returns, but with reasonable fees and daily |
| 1:21.3 | liquidity. |
| 1:23.0 | Their long short hedge fund ETF was up 25 percent for the year in 2020, while their managed |
| 1:28.6 | futures fund was flat, Andrew Beer, welcome to Bloomberg. |
| 1:34.2 | Thank you Barry. |
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