Christopher J. Ailman
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229 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 3 Feb
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Global GTAA, Global Tactical Asset Allocation, was the idea that, you know, give somebody some money and they're going to pick the best market, the best asset class and the best place to be in the world.
We called them GTAA back in the early 2000s, 1990s.
Now you probably call them global macro.
But they proved to be incredibly expensive, even though they were using index funds.
And sure enough, they couldn't time the markets around the world.
Running an institutional portfolio is always a challenge.
You see that with the turnover in CIOs.
But for me, it was about building a culture of a team.
Brett Harris said it too, empowering those people to outperform, giving them targets, get them the right tools, and then get out of their way.
You know, far too often on Wall Street, people get promoted because they're good at selling or they're good at transactions.
That doesn't necessarily mean they're good at managing people.
And that this is still a human being interest business, despite AI and all the futures.
This is a people business and managing people and culture is critical.
you have to identify what kind of culture you want on Wall Street.
We have seen firms that have competitive cultures, dog-eat-dog, and the winner rises to the top.
I wanted, knowing my business model, I wanted a collegial culture.
I was in Sacramento.
I wasn't in a financial city center.
I needed to home grow my talent.
Or you have to go kind of with the superstar idea of I'm going to hire somebody, pay them to come here.
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