Jeff Ptak: Hi, and welcome to The Long View. I m Jeff Ptak, chief ratings officer at Morningstar Research Services.
Christine Benz: And I m Christine Benz, director of personal finance for Morningstar.
Ptak: Our guest this week is Gerard O Reilly. Gerard is co-CEO and chief investment officer of Dimensional Fund Advisors, an asset manager headquartered in Austin, Texas, that manages more than $600 billion using a systematic investing approach. In his role Gerard works with his co-CEO, Dave Butler, to set the firm s vision and strategy while also overseeing its investment processes. Prior to assuming his current post, Gerard was Dimensional s head of research. In addition to serving as a Dimensional director, Gerard co-chairs the firm s Investment Research Committee and is a member of its Investment Committee. Gerard obtained his doctorate in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology and his master s degree in high-performance computing from Trinity College, Dublin.
The unknown importance of a Red Bull victory: Never packed so fast
11-01-2021 18:30 | Updated: 11-01-2021 23:09
It doesn t look like it at the moment, but should all Grands Prix continue in 2021, the F1 teams will face their biggest logistical challenge so far. 23 race weekends in a year in which their work is also complicated by the coronavirus pandemic. Gerrard O Reilly, the man responsible for logistics at Red Bull Racing, explains to Speedweek.com how they are going to tackle it. Thorough preparation is all-important. When a box is unpacked somewhere, we already start thinking about how we can pack everything again as efficiently as possible. That sounds trivial, but you just have to know exactly where everything is. We have become better at this, but we are slower now, for the simple reason that we take much more material with us than we used to.