Ankur Crawford: ‘When Software Begins to Write Software, Innovation Is Exponential’

The Long View

Morningstar

Finance, Dan Lefkovitz, Amy Arnott, Entrepreneurship, Investing Leaders, Jeff Ptak, Investors, Christine Benz, Influential Investors, Careers, Long-term Investing, Financial Services, Business, Investing, Morningstar

4.5 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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A growth equities investor makes the long-term case for AI.

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0:00.0	At Jackson, we've created a digital retirement planning experience with you and mine.
0:05.5	Visit jackson.com to explore our easy-to-understand resources and user-friendly tools
0:10.1	that are designed to enable financial professionals and clients to plan a path to financial freedom.
0:15.5	Jackson is short for Jackson Financial Incorporated, Jackson National Life Insurance Company, Lansing, Michigan,
0:20.5	and Jackson National Life Insurance Company of New York, purchase New York.
0:26.6	Please stay tuned for important disclosure information at the conclusion of this episode.
0:32.7	Hi, and welcome to the Longview. I'm Dan Lefkowitz, strategist for Morningstar Indexes.
0:37.7	And I'm Christine Ben's, Director personal finance and retirement planning for Morning Star.
0:42.6	Our guest this week is Ankur Crawford.
0:44.9	Ankur is a senior vice president and portfolio manager at Fred Alger Management, based in New York City.
0:50.9	Anker co-manages the Alger Capital Appreciation Fund, which is highly regarded by Morningstar's manager
0:56.0	research team, among other U.S. large-cap growth equity strategies.
1:00.0	She's also the sole manager and the Alger concentrated equity strategy, which is available
1:05.0	as both an ETF and a traditional mutual fund.
1:07.0	Prior to joining Alger in 2004, Anker worked as an engineer at Intel and earned a PhD in
1:13.1	material science and engineering from Stanford. Ankur, thanks so much for joining us in the Longview.
1:19.3	It's great to be here, Christine and Dan. Happy to have you. So you have a very interesting,
1:24.7	unusual background, and you took sort of atypical route to becoming a portfolio manager.
1:30.0	Maybe you can start by talking a little bit about your upbringing and also your journey from working at Intel and getting a PhD to working in investment management.
1:38.7	Yeah, I think I do have a somewhat unusual background in that, you know, I grew up all over the world, really. I was
1:44.9	born in Manhattan, Kansas. And when I was five, my family moved to the Middle East. And when they were in
1:51.6	the Middle East, they sent me to boarding school in India to a convent in the Himalayas. So it wasn't just a
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