Steve Kuhn – Life After Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.85)

<p>Steve Kuhn is a retired hedge fund manager.  He spent two decades in the industry, specializing in mortgage-backed securities at Cargill, Citadel, Goldman Sachs, and Pine River.  In his last stint in the business until his retirement in 2016, Steve was a Partner and Portfolio Manager at then $14 billion Pine River Capital Management and was one of the hedge fund industry’s most widely known fixed income traders.</p> <p>Our conversation covers parlaying a passion for playing games into a two-decade Wall Street career, spending time productively when your investing specialty is out of favor, stepping away from the money game, presenting the evidence-based case for active manager alpha, talking the state of the hedge fund industry, managing his own money, engaging in philanthropy, and proposing the IDEAL immigration model.</p> <p style= "margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia; color: #262626; -webkit-text-stroke: #262626;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"><u><strong>Learn More</strong></u></span></p> <p style= "margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 12.0px Times; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 12.0px;">  </p> <p style= "margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia; color: #6b006d; -webkit-text-stroke: #6b006d;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href= "http://capitalallocatorspodcast.com/transcripts"><u>Discuss show and Read the Transcript</u></a></span></p> <p style= "margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 14.0px; font: 12.0px Times; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; min-height: 12.0px;">  </p> <p style= "margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 16.0px Georgia; color: #6b006d; -webkit-text-stroke: #6b006d;"> <span style= "font-kerning: none; color: #262626; -webkit-text-stroke: 0px #262626;"> Join Ted's mailing list at <a href= "http://capitalallocatorspodcast.com/"><span style= "font-kerning: none; color: #6b006d; -webkit-text-stroke: 0px #6b006d;"><u>Capit