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Marc Malek $1.5 billion quant fund manager, who broke the bank of Hong Kong… only on Alt St

19 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Marc Malek, a $1.5 billion quant fund manager, claims he briefly broke the Hong Kong dollar's peg during the Asian financial crisis. He teaches how to generate investment ideas by deconstructing problems to their components and rebuilding solutions from first principles.

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If you actually look at a chart of dollar Hong Kong, that peg has never been broken except for one day during the Asian crisis. That was yours truly. And it worked. In this class, you will learn how to approach becoming a quantitative manager. Much more importantly, in this class, you will learn that you will get your ideas from places that you least expected. And that to the extent possible, whenever you're thinking about a problem, tear down all the preconditions that you had put on it and break it down to the component and think of it from scratch. I am Marc Malik, and this is Alt Street.