Patrick Boyle On Finance

Patrick Boyle

This podcast is all about quantitative finance and financial history. Subscribe to hear about financial markets, derivatives, and how investors use quantitative tools from statistics and corporate finance theory. Included are interviews with some of the most interesting thinkers in finance. Occasional longer form financial documentaries, open up fascinating elements of financial markets history. Patrick Boyle is a quantitative hedge fund manager, a university professor, and a former investment banker. To contact Patrick visit http://onfinance.org Find Patrick on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickBoyleOnFinance DISCLAIMER:This podcast is not affiliated with any financial institution. The information provided is for entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Those seeking investment advice should seek out a registered professional in their home jurisdiction and confirm their credentials on your national regulator's website. Patrick Boyle is not responsible for any investment actions taken by viewers and his content should not be used as a basis for investment or other financial decisions.

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Mar 17, 2021 · 12 min
The Next Hedge Fund Scandal
Send us a textWhat is the latest free money for Wall Street Hedge Funds? SPAC Arbitrage, which is an investment strategy that seeks to acquire shares or units of a special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”) at or below its net asset value (“NAV”) in order to generate a return through either:An exit at a premium to NAV once the SPAC announces a business combinationAn exit at NAV, being the IPO price plus accrued interest, while keeping the SPAC WarrantIzzy Englander’s Millennium Management i...
Mar 10, 2021 · 7 min
The Infinite Money Machine
Send us a textThe story I am about to tell you will contradict almost everything I have taught people about risk and return, about how easy it is to make money and about arbitrage in markets. Today I’m going to tell you how an experimental physicist Konstantin Anikeev discovered an infinite money machine and used it to make $310 thousand dollars. In addition he made this money in such a way that the IRS could not even tax him on the income. because Konstantin doesn’t have to pay taxes o...
Mar 6, 2021 · 21 min
Top Five Corporate Scandals of The Century
Send us a textIn today's Podcast we look at some of the biggest corporate scandals since the turn of the century. They are listed in no particular order - let’s see if there is anything we can learn from them.Patrick's Books:Statistics for The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3cjsyPFCorporate Finance: https://amzn.to/3fn3rvC Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/PatrickBoyleOnFinanceVisit our website: www.onf...
Feb 19, 2021 · 9 min
The Best Performing Stocks of The Last 100 Years
Send us a textIn today's podcast we discuss the top performing stocks of the last 100 years. Which countries have had the best performing stock markets, and which factors drive outperformance. Every year, in association with Credit Suisse, Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton of London Business School, release The Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook which analyses global market returns since 1900. The 2020 edition gives us the insights gleaned from examining 120...
Feb 12, 2021 · 59 min
Victor Haghani - From Long Term Capital Management To Elm Partners - Investing Lessons
Send us a textIn today's podcast Patrick Boyle interviews Victor Haghani, former Long Term Capital Management Partner about Salomon Brothers in the days of Liars Poker, What it was like working at LTCM, different approaches to investing, short squeezes, arbitrage and how Victor invests today. We talk briefly about the GameStop short squeeze, Melvin Capital and why Steve Cohen and Citadel might have invested more money.Victor has spent more than 40 years in the world of finance, from the Londo...
Feb 4, 2021 · 19 min
Day Trading and Leverage - The Kelly Criterion
Send us a textThis weeks podcast discusses some of the lessons that can be taken from the world of gambling that might help a trader with sizing their trades. We discuss what returns a trader might reasonably expect from the market. We look at the Kelly criterion (also known as the Kelly system or Kelly formula), to see if it can provide any insights to investors.Patricks' Books:Statistics for Traders: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Financial Derivatives: https://amzn.to/3kwsPSrCo...
Jan 30, 2021 · 27 min
Wall Street Bets & The GameStop Short Squeeze - What Is Going On?
Send us a textFinancial markets have been thrown into turmoil over the last week by retail investors using social media chat groups such as the Reddit forum Wall Street Bets and low-cost investment platforms to drive up shares in GameStop, a US video game retailer. In what is called a “short squeeze”, the share buyers are putting intense pressure on hedge funds such as Melvin Capital and other institutional investors, who bet that these equities would fall. GameStop is a struggling bric...
Jan 25, 2021 · 23 min
The Story of James Simons - Renaissance Technologies & Medallion Fund
Send us a textJames Simons is a mathematician and cryptographer who realized that the complex math he used to break military codes could also explain patterns in the world of finance. Jim Simons has been described as "the world's smartest billionaire", amassing a fortune through the clever use of mathematics and computers. He has stepped down as the chairman of Renaissance Technologies, the most successful quant hedge fund in history this January. Simons has not overseen the day-to-day runnin...
Jan 16, 2021 · 24 min
The Dot-Com Bubble - Wall Street History
Send us a textThe Dot-Com bubble was one of the largest speculative bubbles in U.S. stock market history. Here's a quick history lesson on what it was like twenty years ago. The Dot-Com Bubble was a major economic event that ultimately led to a three year bear market. The Dot-Com Bubble started in the 1990s with a rapid wave of new internet companies going public by IPO. Many of these dot-com stocks while unprofitable, skyrocketed in value. In this video, we explain what caused the Dot-Com Bu...
Jan 8, 2021 · 46 min
John Law - The First Financial Engineer - A History of Paper Money and The Mississippi Bubble
Send us a textJohn Law was a Scottish monetary reformer and originator of the “Mississippi scheme” for the development of French territories in America.After killing an adversary in a duel, he fled to Amsterdam, where he was a professional gambler and learned about banking operations. A decade later he returned to Scotland and wrote his best-known work, Money and Trade Considered, with a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money (available on Amazon at this link https://amzn.to/2Wkts7p). H...
Jan 8, 2021 · 37 min
What Is a SPAC or Special Purpose Acquisition Company and Should You Invest?
Send us a textWhat is a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC)? or blank check company? Should you invest in SPACs, and how do they work? A SPAC is publicly-traded shell companies that raise collective investment funds through an initial public offering (IPO) in the form of a blind pool. The funds are placed into a trust until an acquisition is made or a predetermined period of time elapses and the fund is liquidated. SPACs are increasingly being viewed as an alternative to the IPO proces...
Jan 7, 2021 · 44 min
How Demographic Changes Will Affect Your Portfolio - With Manoj Pradhan - Talking Heads Macro
Send us a textAn Interview with the leading expert on demographics and macroeconomics Manoj Pradhan. Manoj has just published a new book along with Charles Goodhart, former member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee and an Emeritus professor at the London School of Economics. The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival is one of the most interesting economics books of 2020 and is available on Amazon at this link: http...
Jan 7, 2021 · 15 min
George Soros - Reflexivity Explained
Send us a textTodays Episode is about George Soros and Macro Investing. George Soros is the most famous Macro Hedge Fund Investor. His Theory of General Reflexivity in economics is the theory that a feedback loop exists in which investors' perceptions affect economic fundamentals, which in turn changes investor perception. The theory of reflexivity has its roots in sociology. Soros believes that reflexivity disproves much of mainstream economic theory and should become a major foc...
Jan 7, 2021 · 8 min
Millionaire Habits That Could Change Your Life
Send us a textMillionaire Habits That Could Change Your Life. In today’s podcast, I will share thirteen millionaire habits, things that self-made millionaires do that poor people do not. According to Fidelity, only 12% of today's millionaires in America inherited a significant portion of their wealth. One of the most effective ways to build wealth is to study those who have done so already. While taking on these habits won't necessarily make you rich, they might be a step in the right di...
Jan 7, 2021 · 16 min
Top Ten Finance Books For Traders - Best Finance Books
Send us a textToday's episode is a list of my top ten books for traders, or the best finance books to read to learn about the financial industry. I decided to come up with a list of books that are not just filled with knowledge, but that are also really enjoyable reads – the kind of book that it is hard to put down. There are no university textbooks on this list, no Random Walk Down Wall Street or The Intelligent Investor. To make the list the books had to be interesting, ed...
Jan 7, 2021 · 18 min
Day Traders To Billionaires - Online Trading in the 1990's
Send us a textTodays podcast is about the history of day trading and day traders. In order to better understand how markets work it is worth taking a look at the history of retail day trading, which goes back to the late 1980’s, when new technologies allowed a small group of smart and aggressive traders to take on Wall Street and win. Nasdaq market makers at the time called these traders the SOES bandits. We discuss the market inefficiencies that the early day traders were exploiting, w...
Jan 7, 2021 · 52 min
Unknown Market Wizards - Jack Schwager - The Worlds Greatest Unknown Traders
Send us a textJack Schwager on the worlds greatest unknown traders.An interview with Jack Schwager, the author of The Market Wizards series of books, on his new book, Unknown Market Wizards. Jack has been involved in financial markets for over 45 years, he worked as a market analyst, a trader, managed institutional portfolios of managed accounts, and has written extensively on the futures industry. He is most famous for his Market Wizards series of books, interviews with great traders i...