Karyn Williams – Measuring Risk Practically at Hightree Advisors (Capital Allocators, EP.163)

<p>Karyn Williams is the founder of Hightree Advisors, a new independent consultant that is helping organizations improve the effectiveness of their invested assets through practical quantitative metrics of risk. Karyn is an engineer by training, who previously was a partner at Wilshire Associates, CIO of Farmers Insurance Group, and head of client solutions at hedge fund Two Sigma<br /> <br /> Our conversation covers the early days of financial engineering, taking lessons to portfolio analytics at Wilshire Associates, and discovering a disconnect in theory and practice with mean-variance optimization and the application of early factor models.<br /> <br /> We then turn to Karyn’s applying risk frameworks and factors at Farmers Insurance, joining Two Sigma, and creating Hightree to help institutions measure risk practically.</p> <p><strong><u>Learn More</u></strong><br /> Read the <a href= "http://capitalallocatorspodcast.com/premium">Transcript</a><br /> Subscribe to the <a href= "http://capitalallocatorspodcast.com/contact">Capital Allocators Blog or Monthly Mailing List</a><br /> Don't Subscribe, but <a href= "http://capitalallocatorspodcast.com/contact">Let Us Know Who You Are</a><br /> Write a review on <a href= "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/capital-allocators-with-ted-seides/id1223764016">iTunes</a><br /> Follow Ted on twitter at <a href= "http://twitter.com/tseides">@tseides</a><br /> Review past episodes of the <a href= "http://capitalallocatorspodcast.com/podcast">Podcast</a><br /> <br /> <br /></p>