TIP407: The Evolution of Quant Investing w/ Jonathan Briggs, Ph.D.

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Stig Brodersen

Education, Investing, Business

4.6 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

08:16 - The basics of quant investing.
15:54 - The commoditization of the approach has led to a “Quant Winter”.
18:52 - How size and scale applies to the strategies.
47:39 - How machine learning is playing a bigger role in the quant approach.
1:02:03 - The economic framework Jonathan has devised after decades of research.
And much much more!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to TI-P.
0:30.0	How much you're learning is playing a bigger role in the quantum approach?
0:32.0	The economic framework Jonathan has devised after decades of research and much, much more.
0:36.0	This was a very interesting look into the moneyball approach of investing.
0:40.0	Does it invalidate fundamentals? Let's find out in this discussion with the very thoughtful Dr. Jonathan Briggs.
0:46.0	You are listening to the Investors Podcast.
0:48.0	Well, we're going to talk about the most important things in this podcast.
0:52.0	We're listening to the Investors Podcast. Where we study the financial markets and read the books that influence self-made billionaires the most.
1:06.0	We keep you informed and prepared for the unexpected.
1:10.0	Welcome to the Investors Podcast. I'm your host, Trey Lockerby.
1:20.0	And today I am so excited to have on the show Dr. Jonathan Briggs. Welcome to the show.
1:26.0	Thank you very much. Dr. not a real doctor.
1:28.0	If you got a PhD, you're a doctor to me, you know?
1:32.0	No, no, no, no.
1:34.0	Speaking of which, you've had an incredible career and maybe talked to us about that PhD.
1:38.0	And then how you found your way into finance and how you started to develop the approach you have today.
1:42.0	So let's start all the way back and go from there.
1:44.0	Go to the origin story. So that's a, the PhD is, I was interested in applied math, engineering.
1:50.0	So that was my first love, which was obviously why you went into the graduate program to begin with.
1:56.0	And in particular, I was focusing on something called Control Theory, which is a set of theories about how you manage to make systems do what you want them to do.
2:02.0	So how do you make an aircraft behave the way you want it to do?
2:06.0	How do you make space X land vertically on a small ship?
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