Camp Kotok: Maine Woods, Economists & Wine August 6, 2020 8:30am by Barry Ritholtz Talking Rates in the Maine Woods With Economists Over Good Wine “Taking place right before the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, the gathering is a chance for money managers, traders, and economists to discuss crucial issues without restraint.” Bloomberg Businessweek, August 27, […]
John Mousseau on Risk in the Fixed Income Market (Podcast) Bloomberg Masters in Business Podcast – April 11, 2020 Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with John R. Mousseau, who is president, chief executive officer and director of fixed income at Cumberland Advisors. Mousseau is also co-author of the book “Adventures in Muniland: A Guide […]
We wrapped up our Labor Day Camp Kotok with a round of excellent on-the-record discussions that we’re happy to share with you here. David Kotok and Charles Plosser at Camp Kotok: The Challenges Facing Central Banks David Kotok and Christopher Whalen at Camp Kotok: Capital Markets, Debt and Deflation David Kotok and Doug Duncan at […]
The 50-person gathering at Leen’s Lodge encompassed diverse political views, financial and economic specialties, and asset class focused from cannabis to currency trading, real estate to debt of all types, stock markets and ETFs, derivatives and futures, and more. Over $1 trillion in managed assets were represented as we gathered for each informal meal. No […]
“Camp Kotok,” is a gathering of prominent economists, wealth managers, traders, heads of research, pundits, financial luminaries and a few journalists that meet each year in a remote part of Maine. Held for a long weekend in the summer, we fish and engage in vigorous debates running the gamut from market valuations and the rise of exchange-traded funds to Federal […]
Katie Darden, Financial Institutions Research Director at S&P Global Market Intelligence, joined us at Camp Kotok and then published this excellent summary of our discussions: “At Camp Kotok, fears over China and ‘magic money tree’ overshadow Fed policy,” https://platform.mi.spglobal.com/web/client?auth=inherit#news/article?id=53593818&cdid=A-53593818-12580 . Then Katie joined her bank analyst colleague Nathan Stovall, who authors StreetTalk, a monthly column […]
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The 50-person gathering at Leen’s Lodge encompassed diverse political views, financial and economic specialties, and asset class focused from cannabis to currency trading, real estate to debt of all types, stock markets and ETFs, derivatives and futures, and more. Over $1 trillion in managed assets were represented as we gathered for each informal meal. No […]
Excerpt from Camp Kotok: Wall Street In The Woods by Dave Nadig at ETF.com My experiences at Camp Kotok involve a little bit of shinrin-yoku in the literal sense: There are indeed a few hours a day floating through nature in a boat. But they also involve an intense, highly concentrated kind of economic […]
David Kotok speaks with Bloomberg’s Tim Fox and Tom Keene Tune in around the 24:50 mark to hear David weigh in on the “bogeys for the next several years” and the view that the long party is over. He also talks about takeaways from Camp Kotok and Leen’s Lodge. Tune in at 20:22 to hear […]
