Portfolio manager Ying Hua ’10 on the two approaches to investing and what college students should know about getting started

Catalyze

Ying Hua ’10 is a portfolio manager at Balyasny Asset Management, a hedge fund with $15 billion of assets under management. On this episode, Ying breaks down the two approaches to investing (fundamental and quantitative) and gives personal finance advice for college students. She also shares how to embrace volatility and risk in your career.

Prior to joining Balyasny in 2020, Ying was an analyst at Citadel for four years and an equity research associate at Goldman Sachs before that. She studied economics at Carolina and later received a master’s degree in data science from the University of California at Berkeley.

The intro music for this episode is by scholar Scott Hallyburton ’22, guitarist of the band South of the Soul.

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