Finance & Investing

Bob Elliott rose from an unlikely background to the C-suite of renowned asset manager Bridgewater Associates. Now, as the Co-Founder of Unlimited Funds, he’s using proprietary machine learning to replicate elite hedge-fund strategies for a fraction of their costs.

Bitar, Managing Partner of Rho Acceleration, shared insights from more than three decades of experience across private equity, global investing, and board leadership.

At Columbia Business School’s Alleycon 2026, faculty, founders, and investors argued that in an era of exponential AI and technological acceleration, the biggest risk is hesitation.

A new rent index methodology from Columbia and CompStak uses detailed lease data to track rent changes for comparable CRE space across locations and over time, avoiding the composition biases that distort traditional measures.

Hugh Frater ’85, former Chief Executive Officer of Fannie Mae, and David Benson, former President of Fannie Mae, joined Professor Brian Lancaster at Columbia Business School to discuss one of the unresolved questions in U.S. housing finance: How should Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exit conservatorship, and who should ultimately own them?

Professor Yiming Ma unpacks the federal framework and market forces that impact price stability in dollar-backed digital assets.

Former Fannie Mae leaders Hugh Frater ’85 and David Benson unpack the politics and paradoxes of taking the mortgage giant out of government conservatorship.