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Jul 2020
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Harindra de Silva, Analytic Investors of...

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In episode 234 we welcome our guest, Harin de Silva, president and portfolio manager for the Wells Fargo Asset Management Analytic Investors team. In today’s episode, we’re talking factors and long/short investing. We discuss factors as anything that can help explain return, and the all-important task of assigning weights to factors in portfolio construction ... Show More
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