Basis Points

Basis Points

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Basis Points episodes

  • Interview with Yufeng (Ethan) Ma, Orrick
    On this episode of China of Tomorrow, Liqian and Jeremy are joined by Yufeng (Ethan) Ma, partner and chief representative at Orrick, Shanghai. Listen as our guest discusses some examples of intellectual property cases, his experience with the ITC and some of the differences between business law in China and the U.S.
    41 min
  • Interview with Winston Ma, ThreeFold
    On this episode of China of Tomorrow, Liqian and Jeremy are joined by Winston Ma, Chairman of the Advisory Board for ThreeFold, a European decentralized cloud company. Listen as they discuss blockchain technology advancement in China and its implications, the future of digital currencies, and point-to-point internet.
    38 min
  • "Consumed" By Inflation
    The release of April’s CPI and PPI reports caused a stir in the money and bond markets last week. On this week’s episode, Kevin Flanagan continues his discussion on inflation and addresses the state of the consumer sector of the economy.
    5 min
  • Interview with Patrick Springer, Huatai Securities
    In this episode of China of Tomorrow, Liqian and Jeremy are joined by Patrick Springer, Managing Director and Head of Institutional Securities at Huatai Securities. The speakers discuss the current China landscape, which is illuminated by Patrick’s experience working with some of the largest high-tech companies in China.
    36 min
  • Interview with Professor Nan Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    On this episode of the China of Tomorrow Podcast, Liqian Ren is joined by Professor Nan Li from the College of Economics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Liqian and Professor Li discuss the Chinese financial regulations in China and as well as the Professor's views on the digital dollar.
    32 min
  • A Potential High-Income Solution for a Yield-Challenged Environment
    On this week’s podcast, Kevin Flanagan is joined by Chris Acito, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Gapstow Capital Partners. They discuss Alternative Credit, why the time might be right for it, and the newly launched ETF, the WisdomTree Alternative Income Fund (HYIN).
    Underlying risk disclosure: Less mature and smaller private companies involve greater risk than well-established and larger publicly traded companies. Investing in debt involves risk that the issuer may default on its payments or declare bankruptcy and debt may not be rated by a credit rating agency.
    13 min
  • Emerging Markets Corporate Bonds Q&A
    Digging deeper into the investment opportunities in the Emerging Markets space, Kevin Flanagan and JD Bütikofer of Voya Investment Management discuss why Emerging Markets Corporate Bonds and why now.
    18 min
  • Interview with John Yin Wu
    In this episode, Jeremy and Liqian host John Yin Wu, formerly of TAL Education Group. They discuss the landscape of the educational system in China, and compared to the U.S.
    43 min
  • Fed Watch: Same as it Ever was
    At today’s Fed meeting the FOMC members voted to continue a zero- interest rate policy and keep their quantitative ease purchases on auto-pilot. On this week’s podcast, Kevin Flanagan discusses of keeping policy “the same as it ever was” on the fixed income market.
    5 min
  • Going Out Like a Lion
    The momentum appears to be in place for continued robust economic recovery for the remainder of 2021. On this week’s podcast, Kevin Flanagan highlights this recovery with a breakdown of the latest economic numbers.
    5 min

About Basis Points

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As part of WisdomTree’s Investment Strategy group, Kevin serves as Head of Fixed Income Strategy. In this role, he contributes to the asset allocation team, writes fixed income-related content and travels with the sales team, conducting client-facing meetings and providing expertise on WisdomTree’s existing and future bond ETFs. In addition, Kevin works closely with the fixed income team. Prior to joining WisdomTree, Kevin spent 30 years at Morgan Stanley, where he was most recently a Managing Director. He was responsible for tactical and strategic recommendations and created asset allocation models for fixed income securities. He was a contributor to the Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Global Investment Committee, primary author of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s monthly and weekly fixed income publications, and collaborated with the firm’s Research and Consulting Group Divisions to build ETF and fund manager asset allocation models. Kevin has an MBA from Pace University’s Lubin Graduate School of Business, and a B.S in Finance from Fairfield University.