Speaker

Rebecca Patterson

Rebecca Patterson

Rebecca Patterson is a macro investor and researcher who studies where politics and policy collide with markets, now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and co-host, with Sebastian Mallaby, of its weekly podcast The Spillover. Across more than twenty-five years she has sat in most of the seats that matter to that question: chief investment strategist at Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund; chief investment officer of Bessemer Trust, where she oversaw some $85bn; and, before that, fifteen years at JPMorgan running the private bank’s global currency and commodity desk and serving as chief investment strategist in its asset-management arm. She is an independent director at Vanguard and, like her co-host, came to finance from journalism.

That trader’s-eye background is what she brings to the show: where Mallaby argues from the history of institutions and technology, Patterson reads the tape — how a given piece of news actually moves bond yields, currencies, and credit spreads, and which market plumbing is most likely to crack under stress.

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