Trading Skill Isn’t Enough to Run a Hedge Fund | Benn Eifert of QVR Advisors
Almost everyone who works in finance dreams of one day showcasing their trading or investing prowess by starting their own hedge fund, but being a good trader is only one line item in a long list of s...
21 Jan 202549min
Will the Risk On Party Continue? | Chris Carrano on The Quantitative Factors Driving Markets
There are always many narratives about what drives markets higher or lower but increasingly investors are turning to quantitative measures like style factors to decouple the signal from the noise and ...
19 Jan 20251h 19min
Luke Gromen: Foreigners To Dump Bonds If U.S. Dollar Continues To Strengthen
This Monetary Matters episode is brought to you by VanEck. Learn more about VanEck Uranium & Nuclear ETF: http://vaneck.com/NLRJack Investing involves substantial risk and high volatility, including...
15 Jan 20251h 19min
Why Hedge Fund Managers Must Adapt or Die | Kyle Mowery on The Future of Small Cap Value
If you weren’t in large and often expensive technology stocks you likely struggled as a hedge fund manager in 2024. For small/mid-cap value investors like Kyle Mowery, Portfolio Manager and Founder of...
14 Jan 202552min
How The Treasury Decides Where To Borrow | Steve Hou on Maturity Issuance Policies of U.S. Treasury and Equity Index Construction
Steve Hou, Researcher at Bloomberg Indices, joins Monetary Matters to share his work on Treasury Issuance patterns and equity index construction. Hou explains that “the supply effect” (i.e. the degree...
13 Jan 20251h 46min
Market Tumbles On Rosy Jobs Data | Jack & Max Break-Down Non-Farm Payroll (NFP) Sell-Off and Current Macro Regime
Jack Farley and Max Wiethe of the Monetary Matters network break down the sell-off in stocks after a strong December jobs report and hot inflation expectations reading surprises markets. Recorded afte...
10 Jan 202552min
S&P 500 to 15,000? | Mel Mattison on Bretton Woods 2.0, Revaluation of Gold, and Why He Expects A Violent Stock Market Correction In Early 2025
Mel Mattison, investor, monetary theorist, and former fintech executive, joins Monetary Matters to share how he’s thinking about the next few years for the financial system. Stunned that Mel’s “6,000 ...
9 Jan 20251h 38min
The Last Mutual Fund Manager Standing | How Eric Crittenden Defied the ETF Boom to Build a $1B Fund
When was the last time you heard about an exciting new mutual fund launch? It’s probably been a while. Despite ETFs, hedge funds, and burgeoning asset classes like private credit taking all the headli...
7 Jan 202557min
