Bridgewater Associates
also referred to as: bridgewater
includes Bridgewater Daily, Bridgewater Daily Observations
23 statements across 10 episodes · 12 bullish · 1 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Aug 7, 2017 by Kip McDaniel · said 151 times in 27 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Ted Seides (49), Kip McDaniel (16), Greg Jensen (15), Jennifer Prosek (11), Damien Bisserier (10), Steve Drobny (6), Stephen Gilmore (5), Jim Dunn (5)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 10 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
- Steve Drobny – Where the World is Going at Clocktower Group (Manager Meeting, 30)
- Regan Bozman – Defensible Moats in Crypto at Lattice Capital (Manager Meetings, 34)
- Josh Wolfe – Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 (Capital Allocators, EP.236)
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 66 mentions in 3 episodes 22 per episode
- Greg Jensen – Bridgewater Associates (Manager Meetings, EP.06)
- Alex Shahidi and Damien Bisserier – Uncorrelated Return and Balanced Risk at Evoke-ARIS (Capital Allocators, EP.179)
- Jennifer Prosek – Business Development and Leadership in a Virtual World (Capital Allocators, EP.177)
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 34 mentions in 5 episodes 7 per episode
- Matthew Granade – Inside Data Science at Point72 (First Meeting, EP.22)
- Dan Rasmussen – Private Equity Risk and Public Equity Opportunity at Verdad Advisers (First Meeting, EP.15)
- Carrie Thome – Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained at WARF and beyond (Capital Allocators, EP.160)
- Daniel Adamson – Innovation from Asset Giants at Capital Constellation (EP.136)
- Mark Baumgartner – Allocating in a Crisis at IAS (Capital Allocators, EP.128)
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 17 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- Kip McDaniel – How to Get an Allocator's Attention (Capital Allocators, EP.115)
- Jen Prosek – Branding an Asset Management Firm (Capital Allocators, EP.81)
- Joe Lonsdale – Entrepreneurship and 8VC (First Meeting, EP.09)
- Donna Snider – Inside the Investment Process at the Kresge Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.84)
- Ron Biscardi – Putting Hedge Funds in Context (Capital Allocators, EP.83)
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Mark Baumgartner – Luck, Risk and Uncertainty at the Institute for Advanced Study (Capital Allocators, EP.77)
- Tim McCusker – Consistency and Creativity as CIO at NEPC (Capital Allocators, EP. 80)
- Josh Wolfe – Seeing the Lux (Capital Allocators, EP.65)
- Michael Cembalest – Eye on the Market (Capital Allocators, EP.49)
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
Everything said about Bridgewater Associates, oldest first
Aug 7, 2017 bullish
Clever asset managers prioritize Australia's highly sophisticated capital pools
“You can always tell which asset managers Are clever by the ones that invest a lot of time in Australia. Bridgewater was a very early player in that space, because I think Ray Dalio understood that these people were very sophisticated, and there's money coming …”
Sep 4, 2017 neutral
Dunn: Bridgewater provides eight return factors while PE and activists deliver one
“Bridgewater has about eight factors that drive their return. And you know what they are, their country, their currency, their momentum, duration, spread. And they can tell you, they have the sheet. And when we run our returns-based analysis, we get very close …”
Sep 30, 2019
Feb 17, 2020 neutral
Apr 2, 2020 positive
Aug 3, 2020 positive
Granade found Bridgewater's radical transparency and aggressive culture simple and uncontroversial
“It never struck me as that weird or strange or all the headlines that kind of get produced about it or whatever. I mean, the fundamental tenants of set strong, aggressive goals, be transparent, be honest with each other. Like in my mind, they're not particular…”
Aug 3, 2020 bullish
Quant hedge fund modeling techniques will spread to diverse industries
“And one of the thoughts we had was that this idea that had been pioneered at Renaissance, and Bridgewater, and D. Shaw, Was really going to probably explode across a much wider range of industries. And if that was going to happen, they were going to need a dif…”
Oct 19, 2020 positive
Thome: WARF retained Bridgewater Pure Alpha but phased out All Weather
“I've always enjoyed working with a relationship, as you can guess, with Bridgewater. That was one of the very first products we put in there, and we kept that pure alpha, and the all-weather, we eventually lost the training wheels, and we stopped using pieces …”
Mar 1, 2021 positive
Mar 1, 2021 positive
Bisserier: Ray Dalio sought to hire Alex Shahidi after an initial meeting
“Early on, he was meeting with Ray in our office in Westport, and afterwards, Ray grabbed me in the hallway and said, that guy I was talking to, he's got good common sense, we should hire him, which is about the most positive thing I've ever heard from Ray afte…”
Mar 1, 2021 neutral
Aug 12, 2021 positive
Aug 12, 2021 bullish
Jensen: Japanese equities offer superior risk-reward due to policy support
“I particularly like the setup in Japanese equities because more than any other country, the policy response to any downturn will be to buy equities directly. And at the same time, the prices are not nearly as expensive as in other places. So I think while they…”
Aug 12, 2021 bearish
Aug 12, 2021 bullish
Jensen: Mexican peso and Brazilian real face extremely bullish macro setup
“I think the Mexican peso, the Brazilian real, what you're seeing in those countries and much of the emerging world relative to the developed world is much more traditional monetary policy, traditional fiscal policy. So while you had a big push of fiscal during…”
Aug 12, 2021 neutral
Aug 12, 2021
Jensen: Bridgewater adopts 3 to 5 new systematic research projects semiannually
“Every six months, We organize about 10 to 15 projects that we expect are the best ideas out of the things that we've been worrying about to impact our process, and of those, something like three to five come out to be good enough ideas that they become part of…”
Aug 12, 2021
Aug 12, 2021 positive
Jensen: Bridgewater hires botanists, historians, and poker players alongside economists
“If you look at Bridgewater, we hire people with a wide variety, botanists, history majors, to economics majors, to poker players, like a wide range, because looking at the world and understanding it, it's not a pure math puzzle. It's not a pure philosophy puzz…”
Aug 12, 2021
Aug 12, 2021
Aug 12, 2021
May 5, 2022 positive
Drobny: Bridgewater became the largest hedge fund by prioritizing client research
“Bridgewater's perfected this. They have the Bridgewater daily, which is for most institutional investors, a required daily reading. They spend a lot of money, a lot of energy, a lot of people. To do that, and as a result, voila, they have the world's largest h…”