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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where O'Connor & Associates comes up
Bobby Jain – Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund First Principles at Jain Global (EP.487)
- ▶ 1:29 Ted Seides Our conversation traces Bobby's path from growing up as the son of immigrants in Queens to the trading floors of O'Connor and Credit Suisse, all of which shaped his thoughtful, framework-driven perspectives on markets.
- ▶ 9:25 Bobby Jain Then the O'Connor guy showed up. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:21 Bobby Jain The second thing I learned was, at O'Connor, the core of the business was, 3 times in the scene
David Morehead – Top Down Allocation at Baylor (EP.381)
- ▶ 8:01 David Morehead From there, I ended up going to the old CRT, the Chicago Research and Trading Group that they and O'Connor figured out
Andrew Milgram – Mid-Market Distressed Investing at Marblegate (Manager Meetings EP.29)
- ▶ 7:57 Andrew Milgram It had taken over the O'Connor partnership and really the O'Connor folks were running Swiss bank in large part. 3 times in the scene
Dawn Fitzpatrick – Multi-Faceted Investing at Soros Fund Management (Capital Allocators, EP.112)
- ▶ 4:19 Ted Seides Dawn started her career as a trader at O'Connor and went on to serve as the global head and chief investment officer of O'Connor. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:53 Dawn Fitzpatrick So right out of college, I went to O'Connor, which at the time was arguably the preeminent derivatives trading firm. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:08 Dawn Fitzpatrick So I was down in the pits in 1994, and the way a lot of trading operations worked in O'Connor was one of them, you got paid each year at the end of the year, and December 1994, the peso devalued, and we went from having
- ▶ 13:18 Dawn Fitzpatrick So a group of original O'Connor traders, myself included, reassembled in Chicago, probably in 1998, January of 1998, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:55 Dawn Fitzpatrick So a couple things, and again, this, I think, goes back to the culture that O'Connor has, is in the fall of 2008, when things obviously were going pretty badly for markets generally, the group of senior investors and myself, we literally…
- ▶ 18:56 Ted Seides Was O'Connor part of UBS at that point in time?
- ▶ 21:02 Dawn Fitzpatrick What we had been doing at O'Connor, and it was about delivering valuable set of returns in the context of kind of opportunity set and risk. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:34 Dawn Fitzpatrick and I think I appreciate them that much more, having spent the 25 years back at O'Connor and UBS and understanding what other hedge funds and asset managers have to solve for.