Brian Hurst
The Architect
Structured and legacy-driven; builds the systems and institutions that last.
Brian Hurst embodies The Architect in his systematic decomposition of markets into scalable, durable structures rather than opportunistic trades. He frames multi-strategy vehicles as engineered capital-efficiency systems, and his conviction that working harder outlasts clever arbitrage betrays a builder's temperament.
“Well, I would say of all the ones I could think of, Cliff would be the top mentor. And Cliff wasn't the kind of guy who would put you around his arm around you and say, hey, this is how you do X, Y, and Zoo, and you should do this differently. He did have a good shovel conversations with me like that.”
“Yeah, well, there's agency issues in between, and I think investors are well aware of these. So that causes part of it too. But a big thing, and I think that kind of the multi-manager, multi strategy approach tackles that a fund offense can't is you get a lot of netting benefits both from one manager's long apple, another manager's short…”
“This is a white paper I wrote from my clear off a CIO CEO hat. And it really talks about the history of the hedge fund industry, why different models of delivering alpha, starting with, let's say, single strategy hedge funds, fund of funds, multi-strategy funds, and now multi strategy multi-manager, multi-PM funds.”
“A couple things I'll say about that. So, one thing just from a personal perspective, my wife and I, we have five children together. And that's a lot to deal with. My wife is amazing, and there's no way I would be able to do all the stuff I do at work if it weren't for her being amazing and handling everything at home.”
Masters in Business: “From AQR Quant to Founder & CIO with Brian Hurst”
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