Kenneth Tropin on Quantitative Hedge Fund Strategies

Masters in Business

Bloomberg

Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

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🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Kenneth G. Tropin, who is the chairman and the founder of Graham Capital Management, a multi-strategy quantitative hedge fund with $18 billion in assets under management. Prior to founding GCM in 1994, Tropin was president and chief executive officer of hedge fund John W. Henry & Company, where he worked with such legendary traders as John Henry and Paul Tudor Jones.

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0:51.0	This week on the podcast, I have yet another extra special guest and this is really a fascinating extra special guest
1:01.0	who you probably never heard of, but you should.
1:05.0	His name is Ken Tropin.
1:07.0	Where do I even begin with him?
1:09.0	He's a member of the Futures Hall of Fame.
1:12.0	He's the chairman and founder of Graham Capital Management, which runs $18 billion
1:18.0	and has amassed a quite a track record.
1:22.0	He used to work with John Henry, currently the owner of the Boston Red Sox and another successful Hedge Fund Manager.
1:30.0	He worked with Paul Tutor Jones.
1:32.0	The list of people he knows and has trains with and under is quite astonishing.
1:40.0	The firm that he's built is one of those very quiet, very successful entities that without a whole lot of media coverage,
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