Interest Rate Volatility and Inflation Nancy Davis
Money Tree Investing
Money Tree Investing Podcast
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Are you worried about inflation? You are not alone. most people are worried about all the money printing from the Federal Reserve. We interview Nancy Davis about an interesting new tool to manage portfolio risk.
Have you hear of using interest rate volatility as a risk management tool? We discuss this, Inflation, how to manage your fixed income exposure with low interest rates, and more.
For more information, visit the show notes at https://moneytreepodcast.com/interest-rate-volatility-inflation-nancy-davis
Today's Panelists:
- Kirk Chisholm | Innovative Wealth
- Barbara Friedberg | Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance
- Megan Gorman | The Wealth Intersection
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello, Smart Money Tree podcast listeners. |
| 0:13.4 | Welcome to this week's show. |
| 0:14.9 | My name is Kirk Chisholm and I will be your host today. |
| 0:18.1 | So today we have an interesting guest, which I don't know how many of you are even |
| 0:22.8 | thinking about this part of investing, but I can assure you it is top of mind for me. And I'm really |
| 0:28.6 | glad that we brought her on. And today we have Nancy Davis on the show. How you doing today, Nancy? |
| 0:34.3 | Hi, thanks for having me. Good. Well, Nancy, tell us a little about your background. |
| 0:39.1 | So I'm a portfolio manager. I founded my own firm in 2013, Quadratic Capital. Prior to starting |
| 0:47.1 | my own firm, I spent the majority of my career at Goldman Sachs. I was there for about a decade. |
| 0:53.3 | And I spent most of my time on the prop side |
| 0:55.9 | where I was managing Goldman's capital, no client money. And I rose to become the head of |
| 1:04.0 | credit, derivatives, and rate trading when I was in my mid-20s. So it was a very flat meritocracy. |
| 1:10.5 | And I was privileged to have a seat at the table |
| 1:13.0 | during the dinosaur ages of prop dust. They don't even exist anymore. Well, we're glad to have |
| 1:18.6 | the last of the breed here. Well, reinvented. I'm now quadratic. I mean, before we get into the topic of the day, what was kind of your experience there on |
| 1:30.6 | the prop desk? |
| 1:31.8 | What did you see? |
| 1:32.6 | Like, what can you kind of share with the listeners here that might be of interest to |
| 1:35.8 | them? |
| 1:36.4 | When I started at Goldman, it was in 1998. |
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