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Transcript: Maria Vassalou

The Big Picture

Maria Vassalou has a fascinating history and background, London School of Economics to Columbia School of Business, where she actually was a professor for over a decade, and started consulting to the hedge fund and financial services industry. But over time, as you know, there was this big shift towards passive investing.

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

The Big Picture

The opportunities to trade derivatives and be involved in the hedge fund space was something that really had not emerged, at least for me in New York until Canyon Partners provided that opportunity. But if you look at, when I sold my software company in the late 1990s, we had this huge disconnect where I’m a value investor.

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Transcript: Richard Bernstein

The Big Picture

BERNSTEIN: You know, if you go back to Jack Bogle and the whole idea, and always in my career, I have tremendous respect for Jack, both as a businessman and as an investor. And Jack’s whole thing was you want to be a passive investor. And people can say, well, I should just hold an index fund for the long term.

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Transcript: David Einhorn, Greenlight Capital

The Big Picture

What gave you the confidence to say, sure, I could raise some money and launch a hedge fund and have my entire income dependent on how well we do? 00:06:52 [Speaker Changed] And how did you find the process of raising money for a hedge fund when you guys were a bunch of young Turks? There were all these mutual funds.

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Author Lawrence McDonald Chats With "Motley Fool Money"

The Motley Fool

Also the biggest point that we make in the book from this perspective is the passive revolution. David Einhorn's in our book, famous hedge fund manager, founder of Greenlight Capital. Lawrence McDonald: Well, David Einhorn, who is in the book, a famous and famous hedge fund manager. It's a funny expression.

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