Besides overseeing a third of Bridgewater’s investment professionals, Karniol-Tambour is one of only about a dozen people with full knowledge of Bridgewater’s secretive investment process. Her work on risk premiums and discount rates helped lead to Bridgewater’s Optimal Portfolio hedge fund, launched in 2015, which manages $23 billion. Like others at Bridgewater, Karniol-Tambour tends to talk (and think) three-dimensionally. Beyond China, much of Bridgewater’s research focus is international. Even when assessing foreign markets, Karniol-­Tambour keeps one eye fixed on the U.S.

Source: Forbes October 30, 2018 09:56 UTC