Ben Inker on Value and Asset Allocation (Podcast)

Masters in Business

Bloomberg

Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

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🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Ben Inker, the head of asset allocation at GMO, which manages about $60 billion in assets. In his nearly three decades at GMO, Inker has served as an analyst for the quantitative equity and asset allocation teams, as a portfolio manager of several equity and asset allocation portfolios, as a co-head of international quantitative equities, and as CIO of quantitative developed equities. He is also a member of the GMO board of directors and a CFA charterholder.

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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 an extra special guest.
0:10.5	His name is Ben Inker and he is the head of asset allocation at famed hedge fund GMO
0:17.2	located up in Boston.
0:19.3	They manage about $60 billion.
0:22.3	Inker is Jeremy Grantham's right hand man and we had a fascinating and nuanced conversation
0:29.7	about all things value related.
0:32.3	I was especially intrigued about his take on why we are measuring intangibles from companies
0:41.8	and whether that's intellectual property or various other assets they hold that make
0:48.2	them less capital intensive and therefore potentially more valuable was intriguing.
0:55.2	They've done some fascinating research that really is very interesting.
1:00.2	He explains how and why value has underperformed what he thinks is going to happen going forward.
1:06.8	We go over a handful of different sectors of the economy of the world and talk about specific
1:12.3	stocks.
1:13.6	If you are at all interested in either value or asset allocation or anything along those
1:20.5	lines.
1:23.2	You'll find this to be an absolutely fascinating conversation.
1:26.6	So with no further ado, my sit down with GMOs Ben Inker.
1:32.8	This is Masters in Business with Barry Rittholz on Bloomberg Radio.
1:37.7	My special guest this week is Ben Inker.
1:40.8	He is GMOs head of asset allocation.
1:44.6	During the dot com implosion, the GMO aggressive long short strategy which was long undervalued
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