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93: Australia's Sovereign Wealth Fund - With Ben Samild, Deputy CIO of Future Fund

Money Maze Podcast

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How My Journey Led Me Into Australia Future Fund

I grew up solidly, I don't know, lower middle class and was obsessed with local sport. And I knew that I was very much not good at the things that people around me were good at. So I thought my goodness, I'm never going to be able to be useful in any tiny way. But one of those happened to be behavioral finance. And so I cobbled together over the next year sort of a mud map of how markets work based on some sort of agent based modelling. That work eventually got recognised by a significant investor in the US and that became a hedge fund which I led the research on for about nine years. Then decided that whilst that was absolutely fascinating it was

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