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Jain: Had Jain Global not launched, he wanted to create charter prisons
“If I hadn't started the hedge fund I would have run with that I've done nothing on is I was heavily involved in the charter school movement earlier in my life. I wanted to start charter prisons, basically private, not-for-profit prisons. Charter, the right win…”
Jain: Building a Multi-Strategy Fund Sequentially Creates Severe Infrastructure Problems
“The whole system wants you to create sequentially. They say, Bobby, why don't you start in one area? Start a billion and a half dollar fundamental equities business or quant equities. When that works, go do the next thing. Normal. The problem is now you starte…”
Jain: Next-Gen Portfolio Managers Seek Compensation Autonomy, Not Operational Isolation
“The view of a PM in this industry is, they want autonomy. Especially the people in the next generation don't necessarily want autonomy. They want autonomy of compensation, but they don't necessarily want autonomy of lifestyle. So they want to say, if I make mo…”
Bobby Jain: Jain Global Needed Fewer Programmers to Launch Because of AI
“We got the launch in about a year, which was a reasonable time to build something from scratch, especially with the advent of AI. You didn't have to hire as many programmers.”
Jain: Running Asian trading strategies from the US is ineffective
“Because I'm sick of people trying to run Asia from seven in the morning when they're busy or seven at night when they're tired. I said, Asia is going to be a more finessed market with the very Korea, China, onshore, offshore China, Japan, India, Southeast Asia…”
Bobby Jain: The hedge fund sector will become a talent development industry
“It's going to become A talent development industry. Whether it's talent development, talent acceleration, the people are going to start molding people into the way that they think of the world, and those worlds will be different.”
Bobby Jain: Early on, pushing PMs to take risk is harder than stopping them
“In the beginning, it's harder to push people to take risk than it is to stop people from taking risk.”
Bobby Jain: Traders use active tense for wins and passive tense for losses
“Some people, when they lost money, they start using the passive tense. So when they talk about making money, they use the active tense. When they start talking about the winning trades, they talk about clever they were. When they talk about losing trades, they…”
Bobby Jain: Skeptical of empirical models, favors factor-aware over factor-obsessed approach
“I'm generally skeptical of models, especially empirical models. So I'm more in the factor aware than factor obsessed model.”
Bobby Jain: Multi-manager capital allocation is more static than perceived
“The capital allocation model is a lot more static than you'd think. If you look at most of these multi-manager firms, it doesn't change all that much over a period. In certain market environments, you're moving capital to one place or another, but that's not t…”