Ray Dalio, founder of one of the world’s largest hedge funds, Bridgewater Associates, joins us for a special edition of The Outthinking Investor.
Dalio sat down with PGIM’s George Patterson, Chief Investment Officer of Quantitative Solutions, for a conversation about anticipating the onset of big market cycles and constructing balanced portfolios for new regimes. They discuss the impact of idiosyncratic risks and geopolitical shifts; the evolution of public and private credit markets; AI’s transformative influence on the global economy; the five major forces that create big cycles; and the interplay between sovereign debt, the U.S. dollar, gold, and central banks. To understand big cycles, investors must look beyond the headlines and through a historical lens, Dalio explains.
This episode was recorded at the 2025 Greenwich Economic Forum.
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