Future of Multi-Strategy Hedge Funds | BlackRock, Hudson Bay, Boothbay & Aksia | Global Alts Miami

Описание: Multi-strategy hedge funds have outperformed the hedge fund index for five consecutive years. With hedge fund AUM hitting $5 trillion, multi-strats command an outsized share. But what's next? Four industry leaders discuss talent wars, AI disruption, and whether synthetic intelligence will replace human portfolio managers.

Featuring:
• Nora Richardson, MD, Membership & Investor Services, MFA (Moderator)
• Jeff Shen, PhD, MD & Co-CIO, Systematic Active Equities, BlackRock ($380B AUM)
• Ari Glass, Founder, CEO & CIO, Boothbay Fund Management
• Yoav Roth, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Hudson Bay Capital
• David Sheng, MD, Portfolio Advisory, Aksia

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Multi-strats: Outperforming for 5 years straight
1:16 - How multi-strats fit in a portfolio (Aksia's framework)
3:35 - Talent, technology, and alpha generation
4:20 - BlackRock: $380B across systematic strategies
5:17 - "Today's alpha is tomorrow's beta"
5:42 - Boothbay: $3B, first-loss platform, open architecture
7:29 - Hudson Bay: 25 years, true multi-strat across credit/equity/vol
8:49 - How Aksia evaluates multi-strats
10:24 - "Contemporary art in pass-through expenses"
11:18 - 50%+ of multi-strats now use external SMAs
12:22 - How each firm differentiates
13:25 - "Not competing for 29-year-old hot hands"
14:37 - Boothbay's innovation: Structure matters
15:11 - The Billy Beane conversation: "Three dollar beer nights"
16:47 - "The options on talent market is mispriced"
18:09 - BlackRock's tech edge: Scale as enabler
19:11 - 30,000 databases tracking the global economy
20:21 - "AI can mimic 70% of active management"
21:39 - Waymos and autonomous trading agents
21:50 - Market dispersion creating opportunities
23:30 - "COVID-like movements" under the surface
23:59 - Prediction markets: The next frontier
24:38 - Intersection of public and private markets
26:10 - What the experts read and listen to
27:04 - Ari Glass on biohacking and longevity
27:34 - "I failed organic chemistry" → Daniel Kahneman
28:24 - The dystopian AI scenario: 40% unemployment by 2028

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