{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Bobby Jain \u2013 Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund First Principles at Jain Global (EP.487)","description":"Bobby Jain is the&amp;nbsp;CEO and CIO&amp;nbsp;of Jain Global, a&amp;nbsp;global&amp;nbsp;multi-strategy hedge fund he launched last year&amp;nbsp;that manages&amp;nbsp;about&amp;nbsp;$6&amp;nbsp;billion&amp;nbsp;with&amp;nbsp;over&amp;nbsp;350 employees.&amp;nbsp;Bobby\u2019s&amp;nbsp;storied Wall Street career includes spending seven years as&amp;nbsp;the Co-CIO of Millenium and&amp;nbsp;twenty&amp;nbsp;at Credit Suisse in&amp;nbsp;a range of&amp;nbsp;leadership&amp;nbsp;roles spanning&amp;nbsp;proprietary&amp;nbsp;trading, derivatives, and asset management.  Our conversation&amp;nbsp;traces&amp;nbsp;Bobby\u2019s&amp;nbsp;path from&amp;nbsp;growing up&amp;nbsp;as&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;son of immigrants in Queens&amp;nbsp;to the trading floors of O\u2019Connor and Credit Suisse,&amp;nbsp;all of which shaped his&amp;nbsp;thoughtful,&amp;nbsp;framework-driven&amp;nbsp;perspectives on&amp;nbsp;markets.&amp;nbsp;We explore the evolution of prop trading and&amp;nbsp;the migration of risk taking from banks to&amp;nbsp;hedge funds,&amp;nbsp;proprietary trading firms, and&amp;nbsp;private credit.  We then discuss Bobby\u2019s ambitious launch, including&amp;nbsp;the principles guiding its design,&amp;nbsp;scale&amp;nbsp;and diversification out of the gate,&amp;nbsp;talent&amp;nbsp;strategy,&amp;nbsp;risk management,&amp;nbsp;portfolio construction,&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;many&amp;nbsp;tradeoffs that create the&amp;nbsp;different&amp;nbsp;cultures&amp;nbsp;and complexions&amp;nbsp;of&amp;nbsp;multi-manager hedge funds.&amp;nbsp;We&amp;nbsp;close&amp;nbsp;with&amp;nbsp;Bobby\u2019s&amp;nbsp;application of&amp;nbsp;financial innovation to&amp;nbsp;helping&amp;nbsp;others.  Learn more about our Strategic Investments:&amp;nbsp;Ascension.  Learn More Follow Ted on Twitter at&amp;nbsp;@tseides&amp;nbsp;or&amp;nbsp;LinkedIn  Subscribe to the&amp;nbsp;mailing list Access Transcript with&amp;nbsp;Premium Membership &amp;nbsp; Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (\u2060https:\/\/thepodcastconsultant.com\u2060) ","author_name":"Capital Allocators \u2013 Inside the Institutional Investment Industry","author_url":"https:\/\/capitalallocators.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/40116800\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/40116800"}