Jason Hsu, Founder and CIO, Rayliant Global Advisors "Taking my Shot: Leaving Research Affiliates to build Rayliant"

Our guest for today's podcast is Jason Hsu, Founder and CIO of Rayliant Global Advisors.  Jason spun Rayliant out of Research Affiliates in 2016 after a very successful stint as co-founder of Research Affiliates with legendary thought leader and finance guru, Rob Arnott.  At present, Rayliant has $26+ billion in AUM linked to its strategies and, beginning in 2021, launched an ETF in the US, symbol: RAYC, the Rayliant Quantamental China Equity ETF which is designed to give US investors access to beta in China A shares market. 

 

Jason takes us through his path attending top universities including Caltech, Stanford and UCLA culminating in earning his PhD in finance and tells the story of how Research Affiliates became successful and why he decided to form Rayliant as an independent company.

 

Asian-led multi-billion AUM firms are rare so Jason's story is inspiring and we look forward to the great impact Jason and Rayliant will have for investors for a long period of time.

 

Without further ado, here is our conversation with Jason Hsu.