Incubator Hedge Fund

Quantitative Investor

Interviews with Experts to Learn How to Invest in Stocks, Real Estate, Commodities and Alternative Investments. Hosted by Quantitative Investor, a Yale Grad with Investment Banking Experience. Contact Us at incubatorhedgefundpodcast (at) gmail (dot) com

  1. 06/10/2020

    Apartment Syndication Made Easy with Vinney Chopra

    Since coming to the U.S. more than 40 years ago with only $7 in his pocket, Vinney Chopra has achieved success in a number of arenas: marketing, sales, motivational speaking and real estate investing, among them. Despite the trials and tribulations he encountered, Vinney was able to come out the winner. With his passion to help people and his drive to build lasting legacies, Vinney is an example what positive thinking can do to impact one's life and that of others. Vinney is a sought after multifamily syndication expert that has appeared on numerous podcasts and all social media to share his experiences and 35 years of expertise. Over the past 12 years he has honed his skills and has done 28 successful syndications, 14 of those being in past 3 years! He has achieved enormous success controlling over $350 million, 4200 doors in this niche market. He and his 67 professional full-time team members manage all assets from acquisition till disposal. Vinney is the CEO of Moneil Investment Group that oversees his syndications, and the CEO of Moneil Management Group that oversees his properties. Vinney uses his proven ideas and techniques for multi-family and senior living syndications that has helped him grow his business exponentially over the years. There’s a reason Vinney’s nickname is “Mr. Smiles” and “Mr. Enthusiasm” which is evident even through just hearing his demeanor in his voice. He has always believed in the individuals’ ability to shape the world around them through positive thought and selfless actions.

    54 min
  2. 06/03/2020

    Terrance O’Malley, Author of Insider’s Guide to Hedge Funds

    Terrance J. O’Malley founded TJO Management in 2018 to provide consulting services and market intelligence to the investment management industry. Throughout his 25-year career, Terrance has served firms as both a trusted outside adviser and as a key in-house executive. Drawing on this experience, he provides a variety of consulting services and lends his judgment to complex problems faced by the industry’s top firms. Terrance also hosts Operational Leaders, a podcast he created in 2019. The podcast features leaders and innovators responsible for “the business of running an investment management business”. In addition, he publishes a popular blog focusing on issues facing investment management firms. Terrance provides his consulting services and market intelligence based on the full range of his career experience which includes: • Senior in-house executive serving as Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Blue Ridge Capital, at its peak a pre-eminent multi-billion dollar hedge fund firm. • Partner at law firms Schulte Roth & Zabel and Fried Frank, as well associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell, focusing on regulatory matters for investment management clients. • Adviser to foreign governments – working on USAID capital markets projects in Russia, Ukraine and India. • SEC enforcement attorney (while simultaneously attending an evening MBA program). Terrance has been an active participant in the investment management community. He has served in a variety of leadership positions ranging from industry initiatives to editorial boards to association committees, including the MFA’s Chief Operating Officer Forum. He has also published dozens of articles and co-authored two influential books: The Insider’s Guide to Hedge Funds: Successfully Managing the Middle and Back Office and the Investment Adviser’s Legal and Compliance Guide. In addition, he has spoken frequently at industry conferences and been quoted in leading industry publications. Terrance hails from Pennsylvania where he grew up on the border of suburbia and farm country. This environment fostered a life-long curiosity of how things work – from local manufacturing to agriculture, history to economics, and culture to sports. His path led to Wall Street where Terrance developed a passion for the investment management industry. Along the way, he earned a law degree from Cornell University and a bachelor’s degree cum laude from Boston College.

    20 min
  3. 05/29/2020

    Salem Abraham from Abraham Trading Company

    Today's guest is Salem Abraham from Abraham Trading Company Salem started his investing career as a futures trader, using quantitative models to trade global futures markets beginning in 1987. In 1999, Salem and the Abraham Trading team became the first company in the world to send computer-generated orders electronically to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Throughout his career, Salem has managed investments in stocks, bonds, options, derivatives, and private equity. He has held full membership seats at both the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade. Salem is also highly experienced in orchards, farmland, ranchland, wind, water, and energy investments. His first investment experiences were shared with his grandfather, who employed him to buy and sell distressed minerals and ranches in the Texas Panhandle in the late 80s. In total, Salem has bought and sold more than 200,000 acres of land and resources. He manages investments in oil and gas properties, wind rights and residential, commercial, and agricultural real estate properties. Salem has served on nonprofit investment boards for over 25 years. From 1995 to 2014, he served on the Amarillo Area Foundation Investment Committee. Since 2004, he has served on the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Investment Committee. He assists with both large and small nonprofit endowments, with portfolios ranging from $1 million to over $4 billion in assets. His experiences with large and small institutional investors have provided insights into the unique mandates and challenges of managing foundation and endowment portfolios of all sizes. The strategy for the Abraham Fortress Fund was originally used for Salem's half of the Pickens-Abraham Foundation that he started with T. Boone Pickens in 2008. The foundation provided college scholarships to accomplished graduating seniors in the Texas Panhandle. After the death of T. Boone Pickens in September of 2019,  the Pickens Abraham Foundation was divided, with half of the funds going to the T. Boone Pickens Foundation and half of the funds going to the Salem & Ruth Ann Abraham Foundation. The Salem and Ruth Ann Abraham Foundation is managed by Salem and is invested in the Abraham Fortress Fund. Salem has been featured in Michael Covel's books The Complete TurtleTrader and Trend Following. He has also appeared in Bloomberg Markets, Absolute Return, Barron's, and the New York Times. Salem continues to lead the research efforts at Abraham Trading Company. He resides with his family in Canadian, Texas.

    49 min

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