Asset Allocation | Bitcoin & Crypto
Ep. 83: Marc Rubinstein on Understanding Banks, the Crypto Challenge and Private Equity
- By Bilal Hafeez
- 1 min read
Marc is author of Net Interest – a leading weekly newsletter on the world of finance. Before this, Marc spent ten years at leading hedge fund Lansdowne Partners, where he was a partner and portfolio manager. This was after he spent time on the sell-side working for Barclays Investment Bank (BZW), Schroders and then Credit Suisse, where he was head of the European banks research team. In this podcast we discuss:
- How to predict financial crises
- How are financials different from other companies
- What do banks price-to-bank ratios tell us?
- Can banks rebrand themselves as fintech?
- What are the key fintech trends
- How will credit evolve
- Is the crypto challenge to finance real?
- How to do well in angel investing
- Why have private equity firms institutionalized better than hedge funds
- What is the state of sell-side research?
- Books that influenced Marc: Fooled by Randomness (Taleb), Origin of Wealth (Beinhocker) and The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets (Mandelbrot)
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