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This is Masters in Business with Barry Ritholz on Bloomberg Radio.

This week on the podcast, boy, do I have an extra special guest?

I know Jim O'Shaughnessy for, I don't know, maybe 20 plus years,

something like that. We actually first met in the green room at C. M.C.

like early 2000s and found we shared some similar likes and philosophies and I've

been a fan of his book what works on Wall Street pretty much from when it came out.

This is a fascinating conversation about a person who has worked through multiple locales

and seats in finance, not just running a systematic investing at Bear Stearns but

creating O'Shaughnessy Asset Management creating a unique custom index product that ended up attracting the

attention of Franklin Templeton who paid some undisclosed and ungodly amount of

money for the whole firm.

And now in a later phase of his career doing O'Shaughnessy Ventures and the O'Shaughnessy Fellowship,

I first know him from really the first

quand book, what works on Wall Street, that was a half a century of data analysis,

really was never accessible to the public before. I found the conversation to be

fascinating and I think you will also and at this point I am obligated to do a

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