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About this episode

David Leinweber (Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley)--Technology has transformed investment and trading over the past 30 years. Markets have become computer networks, brokers are disintermediated by direct access and algo trading. Reporters are disintermediated when investors have access to primary sources at the same time they do. An ever larger view of exploitable economic and business activity can found on the web. Alpha innovators with the right technology are positioned to access, analyze, and act on this information. Dr. Leinweber, a founder of one of the earliest successful algo trading firms (acquired by ITG in 1992), manager of a $6 billion quantitative institutional global equity portfolio (at First Quadrant), founder of a pioneering web information firm (pre bubblle) and a visiting faculty member in economics at Caltech (post bubble), brings an unusually broad and deep view to these issues, from both a sell- and buy-side perspective.

• Release Date

  May 29, 2008

• Runtime

  36:26