Shahidi: Evoke-ARIS manages $19 billion, with $13 billion across 70 clients
Alex Shahidi · Alex Shahidi and Damien Bisserier – Uncorrelated Return and Balanced Risk at Evoke-ARIS (Capital Allocators, EP.179) · Mar 1, 2021 · at 32:46
Alex Shahidi and Damien Bisserier, co-CIOs of Evoke-ARIS, discuss the firm's client base and asset scale with Ted Seides.
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“So as a firm, we manage about nineteen billion in assets. Damien and I handle about 70 clients or so. That makes up about thirteen billion of those assets.”
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