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Please join us in wishing a Happy Work Anniversary to Vikram Khullar, who celebrates 5 years with Alger today. We're glad to have you on our #team, Vikram!
To stay connected with coworkers and break up the work week, Alger's Nicholas Generale recently hosted a Zoom happy hour. How is your team fostering work culture these days?
While many investors frequently add value stocks to their portfolios in an effort to improve risk and return profiles, this thinking may be misguided. In fact, looking at the past 10 years, diversifying into value equities would have achieved the opposite goal of diversification—subjecting investors to greater declines in their portfolio values when markets retreated, resulting in lower absolute returns. In this Summer 2020 Market Update, Alger’s Dan Chung and Brad Neuman, CFA, take a closer look at this divergence between expectations and reality:
Could the upcoming election create market volatility? In a recent portfolio update for clients in the Alger Weatherbie Specialized Growth strategy, Josh Bennett, CFA, shares his thoughts on this and more.
In our latest podcast episode, Alger's Patrick Kelly shares his thoughts on the ongoing market risks of the coronavirus, the upcoming election, and the accelerated digital transformation happening before our eyes. Click here to tune in:
Join us in congratulating Winston Chia, who celebrated his 20-year work anniversary this month. Thank you for being such a valuable member of our information technology team, Winston!
At Alger, we're committed to embracing and encouraging equality. As a part of that commitment, we're proud to announce a $150,000 contribution to charities focused on social justice. Here are a few of the organizations that will benefit: Equal Justice Initiative; New Jersey Institute for Social Justice; The Knowledge House; NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.; and Black Economic Council of Massachusetts, Inc. Click to learn more and see the full list of donation recipients:
Today Alger's Noel Guzman celebrates 35 years with the firm. Congratulations on this milestone, Noel! We're sincerely grateful for your years of dedication.
We'd like to express our thanks and congratulations to John Carbone, who celebrated his 5-year work anniversary with Alger this month. Thank you for everything you do and keep up the great work, John!
At Alger, we've written a lot about the current technological revolution underway. In this commentary, Brad Neuman, CFA, takes a deeper dive into a particularly mind-blowing advancement: natural language processing. GPT-3 is a natural language processing model that puts us the closest we've ever been to human-level artificial intelligence. Click here to learn more:
