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Paul Marshall

Chairman & CIO, Marshall Wace

Search every verified Paul Marshall interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Sir Paul Marshall, co-founder of Marshall Wace, discussed the firm's evolution and market outlook in an August 2026 podcast interview with Nicolai Tangen of the Norwegian Wealth Fund. He recounted that his worst investment performance came from a large position in oil services built before the first Iraq War, which he described as nearly costing him his job. Marshall also reflected on the firm's growth from a $50 million startup in 1997 to managing $90 billion, and discussed the TOPS alpha capture system and the firm's "man plus machine beats a machine" approach to blending human judgment with AI. In the interview, Marshall commented on current market conditions, stating that while he did not believe the market was in a bubble yet, he expected one to develop in AI at some point. He noted that the fundamentals of AI represent a significant development in capitalism, and he pointed to recent corrections in leveraged Korean ETF markets as examples of unsustainable leverage correcting. Marshall also emphasized the growing importance of experience and pattern recognition in markets over credentials, and advised young people to interrogate information rather than accept consensus views.

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“I think that the level of experience in market in markets is getting more rather than less important because of the need to be able to deal with volatility and and and an understanding of patterns and how they've worked in the past. So I I I would say everybody needs to be both, but but I think that the one in less short supply is that I think gut feeling is not the right it's it's not gut feel in the sense... it's p”

“I think unlike the FT who said we were in a bubble two years ago, I think that we're not in a bubble yet, but that we will go into a bubble at some point in AI. But at the moment, the fundamentals for me for I stepping back the AI artificial intelligence is the most important thing that's happened in Europe arguably in the history of capitalism.”

“QE became an engine of inequality and the political class did nothing to offset it. In the era of globalization, we forgot to care about those who lose out from free trade. And that in an era of innovation, we forgot and we are forgetting to worry about those who lose out from creative destruction.”

“The biggest victims of our lies have been the young. We encourage huge numbers of them to go to university, to earn useless degrees from resentful academics with no experience of the real world. They've been fed false narratives about our history and our culture. They have emerged from three years of purgatory with huge debts. They face uncertain economic futures.”

“In the financial crisis of 2008, we privatized gains and socialized losses. In its aftermath, QE massively amplified inequality, ramping up the asset values of those who were already rich. To use Scott Besson's phrase, we had gain of function monetary policy with central banks around the world using quantitive easing to inflate asset prices. QE became an engine of inequality and the political class did nothing to off”

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