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Zest AI CEO: Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Lending and Credit

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“On average, our customers will see a 20 percent lift in approvals and a 30 percent reduction in charge-offs just by deploying better math,” de Vere said. Those are the kind of numbers that explain why Zest received a $15 million investment last week from software developer Insight Partners. 15M In New Funding . ML Is ‘Where It’s At’.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. Her name is Kristen Bitterly Michell.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

Let’s talk a little bit about your alternative investments career. And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

Greg Davis, Chief Investment Officer at a little shop called the Vanguard Group, which manages $8 trillion. Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. GREG DAVIS, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, VANGUARD GROUP: Thanks, Barry.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

He holds all sorts of fascinating titles in addition to chief investment officer for bonds. trillion in various investments. If you’re at all interested in a lecture school in investing or fixed income, or active and passive, this is just a masterclass as to how to do it right. You’re chief investment officer.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate.

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Transcript: Jeffrey Sherman, DoubleLine

Barry Ritholtz

There are few people who understand both fixed income and equity investment and quantitative strategies to each better than Jeffrey Sherman. With no further ado, my discussion with Jeffrey Sherman, double line’s Deputy Chief Investment Officer. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not.

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