Which podcasts are interesting to listen to for quants?
If you recommend one, why?
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Freakonomics usually has some interesting podcasts that cast light on misconceptions related to economic/finance statistics and beliefs.
Grant's Current Yield is another interesting podcast, done by the publisher of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a publication that tracks the rates markets.
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I listened to a few episodes of AQR's The Curious Investor which cover a broad range of topics with the help of interesting guests.
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Chat with Traders is a series of interviews with traders and alike and some of them have a based trading strategies on quantitative methods. This Podcast is more about career. I have only listened to a few episodes.
Flirting with Models is great podcast where in each episode the host and the guest discuss how the guest use specific financial models/methods in their daily work.
Otherwise I have good experience with some podcasts about Data Science and here is a great list. If you spend five minutes you will be able to find many episodes about data science/machine learning application in Finance.
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SSGA has some nice podcasts, mostly related to their products, but still. Unfortunately, they do not organize by category.
Masters in Business series also has some good podcasts. I recommend listening to these podcasts because they have different guests from different areas of Finance and it helps to catch up with what is going on.
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The Curious Quant with Michael Kollo. It's a fairly new podcast, but addresses the application of AI and alt data into finance and forecasting models, but in a non technical and thought provoking way. Anyways, that's the hope!
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The CQF institute just launched QuantSpeak. I haven't listened yet but given their pedigree it should be interesting.
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I find more use tracking the derivatives pods than specific QF pods.
- Alpha Exchange
- Signals & Threads
- Flirting with Models
- Resolve Assets Gestalt University
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The Alpha Exchange podcast is often interesting. Focus is more on derivatives than quant finance in general.
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Jane Street started a podcast in 2020: Signals & Threads.
This podcast focuses mainly on the tech side of things. It can also be appreciated by folks that don't write OCaml for a living ;)
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Jump Capital started a podcast in 2021: The Jump off Point.
Note that Jump Capital is the venture capital arm of Jump Trading, so it is more about that part of their business than it is about trading.