Alpha Exchange Podcast
1) Kumaran Vijayakumar, Co-Founder and CEO, DataDock Solutions
Kumaran Vijayakumar has spent his career in the equity derivatives market, first as an exotics trader and later in running large risk-taking desks in listed and OTC options. Now, the CEO of DataDock S...Show More
2) Mark Rosenberg, Founder and Co-Head, Geoquant
Risk generally falls into 4 categories, monetary (Central Banks), economic (growth and profits), financial (leverage, carry and correlation) and finally, geopolitical. This last category is non-market...Show More
3) Todd Rapp, CEO, Fortress Multi-Manager Group
Todd Rapp got his career started in equity options at Goldman Sachs in the late 1990’s, a wild time in which a bubble inflated and burst and provided critical lessons in both gamma and vega risk in th...Show More
4) Jessica Stauth, CIO, Systematic Equity, Fidelity Investments
It was a pleasure to welcome Jessica Stauth, CIO for Systematic Equities at Fidelity Investments, to the Alpha Exchange. Our discussion explores how quant investing has evolved through cycles of marke...Show More
5) Price is the Only Fundamental
They say there’s always a bull market somewhere and a chart on doom commentary has surely been up and to the right. Perhaps it’s been the joint decline in the equity and crypto markets. NVDA is down 1...Show More
6) Megan Miller, Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of Options Solutions, Allspring Global Investments
Welcome back to the Alpha Exchange. In today’s episode, I am joined by Megan Miller, Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of the Options Solutions team at Allspring Global Investments. Her career spans t...Show More
7) Jordi Visser, CEO of Visser Labs and Head of AI Macro Research at 22V
On this episode of the Alpha Exchange, I’m pleased to welcome back Jordi Visser, CEO of Visser Labs and Head of AI Macro Research at 22V. Our conversation centers on one of the most consequential them...Show More
8) Alex Kazan, Partner and Geopolitical Co-Lead, Brunswick Group
The global economic and geopolitical order has long been balanced by the United States. Today, however, that traditional stabilizing role is in flux. The drivers of market uncertainty, typically resul...Show More
9) Is US Stock Market Wealth a Reflexive Risk?
Loyal listeners, I hope your recent days have gone well, even if they are becoming shorter. On my mind – and where I hope to engage your interest for 20 odd minutes – is the topic of risk and uncertai...Show More
10) Ben Hoff, Global Head of Commodity Strategy Société Générale
The distribution of asset price returns is a subject of much study in the literature of empirical finance. We know, of course, that equity returns are left-tailed, subject to the occasional violent pl...Show More