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03.24.2023

This episode is sponsored by Amber Group Jim Leitner serves as President of Falcon Management Corporation and CIO of Falcon Family L.P., a family office. Previously, he worked as a foreign exchange trader at Morgan Guaranty, as Chief Dealer at ...

Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez episodes:

03.24.2023 Jim Leitner on Creating a Macro Edge, Trading Options and Carry Trades This episode is sponsored by Amber Group Jim Leitner serves as President of Falcon Management Corporation and CIO of Falcon Family L.P., a family office. Previously, he worked as a foreign exchange trader at Morgan Guaranty, as Chief Dealer at ...
03.17.2023 Lindsay Politi on the Silicon Valley Bank Fall-Out, Duration Bubbles and Inflation Lindsay Politi is Head of Inflation Strategies at One River Asset Management. Lindsay began her career at Wellington Management in Boston where she was head of Global Inflation-linked Investments. In that role she was one of the top TIPS managers ...
03.10.2023 Niall Ferguson on Cold War 2, Middle East Conflict and Woke Students Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center at Harvard, where he served for twelve years as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History. He ...
03.03.2023 Mustafa Chowdhury on Mortgage Risks, Fed Shocks and Derivatives Mustafa is a rates guru and member of the research team at Macro Hive. Before this, Mustafa was the Head of Rates, FX, and Derivatives at Voya Investments, where he helped manage $40 billion of assets. Prior to that, he ...
02.24.2023 Timothy Ash on Russia’s Failure, China Intervention and EM Re-Alignment Timothy Ash is a Senior EM Sovereign Strategist at the $125bn fund, BlueBay, and is widely considered one of the leading experts on Ukraine and Russia. Prior to joining BlueBay, Tim was Head of CEEMEA Credit Strategy at Nomura International. ...
02.17.2023 Mikihiro Matsuoka on Japan Inflation, BoJ Outlook and Debt Problems Matsuoka-San is the Chief Economist of SBI Securities in Japan. Before that, he was the Chief Economist for Japan at Deutsche Bank. Overall, he has been involved in macroeconomic analysis at research institutions and financial institutions for the past 30 ...
02.10.2023 Richard Oldfield on Value Investing, Warren Buffet and Elon Musk Richard founded Oldfield Partners in 2004.The firm is a value-style asset management firm with over $4bn in assets under management. Richard was Chairman of the Oxford University Investment Committee and of Oxford University Endowment from the latter’s inception in 2007 ...
02.03.2023 Deborah Seligsohn on What Everyone Gets Wrong on China’s COVID and Climate Policies Deborah Seligsohn is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Villanova University. Her research focuses on Chinese politics, US-China relations, and public health, energy and environmental politics in China and India. Prior to her academic career, she served as the ...
01.27.2023 Phil Suttle on Fed Murdering Expansions and Bond Worries Phil is the founder of Suttle Economics – a leading research consultancy. Before that, he held senior roles at Tudor, the Institute of International Finance (IIF), JP Morgan, Barclays, the New York Fed and World Bank. He was educated at ...
01.20.2023 Niels Kaastrup-Larsen and Alan Dunne on How to Make Money From Following the Trend Niels is the Managing Director of DUNN Capital (Europe) which has a track record going back over 45 years. He has been in the managed futures business for over 30 years having held management positions in and started multiple CTA ...
01.13.2023 Yesha Yadav on the Galactic Risks of the US Treasury Markets Yesha Yadav is Associate Dean and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School. She is one of the world’s leading experts on financial and securities regulation. Before Vanderbilt, Yesha worked as legal counsel with the World Bank and before ...
01.06.2023 Andrew Revkin on What to Do About Climate Risk Andrew Revkin is one of America’s most honoured and experienced environmental journalists and the founding director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute. He’s written on climate change for more than 35 years, reporting ...
12.30.2022 Ivy Zelman on the Coming US Housing Crisis With everyone taking a well-deserved break over the holiday season, we decided to dig through our archives to bring you our most-listened-to podcast of 2022. Back in July, we interviewed Ivy Zelman – best known for calling the top of ...
12.16.2022 Agathe Demarais on How Sanctions Backfire on the US Agathe Demarais is the Global Forecasting Director of The Economist Intelligence Unit. Agathe has a special focus on trade, sanctions, European affairs, Russia and the Middle East. As The EIU’s Global Forecasting Director, Agathe oversees the publication of The EIU ...
12.09.2022 Shannon O'Neil on What Everyone Gets Wrong About (De)Globalisation Shannon O'Neil is the vice president, deputy director of studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is an expert on global trade, supply chains, Mexico, Latin America, and ...
12.02.2022 David Rubenstein on How to Invest Like Superstar Investors David Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the Carlyle Group – one of the largest private equity firms in the world. Prior to forming Carlyle in 1987, David practiced law in Washington, D.C. with Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge LLP ...
11.25.2022 Fred Thiel on FTX Fallout, Bitcoin Energy Myths, and Future of Crypto Fred Thiel is the CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings – one of the largest bitcoin mining companies in North America. Prior to this, Fred co-founded Sprocket, a blockchain and cryptocurrency technology and financial services company that focused on creating a ...
11.18.2022 Gerard DiPippo on CIA, US-China Tech War, and Taiwan Risks Gerard is a senior fellow with the Economics Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He joined CSIS after nearly 11 years in the U.S. intelligence community. From 2018 to 2021, DiPippo was a deputy national intelligence ...
11.11.2022 Victoria Ivashina on Whether Private Markets Will Trigger a Crisis Victoria is Professor of Finance and Head of the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. She is also the faculty chair of the Global Initiative for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. She is a Research Associate at ...
11.04.2022 Igor Yelnik on How to Trade Macro Differently Igor founded Alphidence Capital in 2020 and holds the positions of CEO and CIO. The fund is unusual in that it focuses on systematic macro investing. Previously Igor was the CIO for ADG Capital Management LLP from 2013 to 2019. ...
10.28.2022 Nouriel Roubini on World War 3 Starting, Debt Crisis and Robot Takeover Nouriel Roubini is CEO of Roubini Macro Associates and Chief Economist for Atlas Capital Team LP. He is Professor Emeritus at the Stern School of Business (New York University). He has previously served as the senior economist for international affairs ...
10.21.2022 Doomberg on Energy Scarcity, Nuclear Power and Failure of Energy Transition Policies The Doomberg team are energy gurus amongst other things. They are the anonymous publishing arm of a bespoke consulting firm providing advisory services to family offices and C-suite executives. Its principals have decades of experience across heavy industry, private equity ...
10.14.2022 Robert Carver on How To Build Successful Trading Strategies Robert is a systematic futures trader, writer, and researcher. He is the author of several books on systematic trading including ‘Systematic Trading: A unique new method for designing trading and investing systems’ and the upcoming ‘Advanced Futures Trading Strategies’. Before ...
10.07.2022 Dave Newman on Hedge Fund Success, Investment Banking Lessons and Writing Daily Dave is President and CIO of KC3 Capital Management. Before that, he was Head of Macro Trading NY at Moore Capital and Managing Director in FX and Macro Trading at SAC Capital. Prior to his buy-side roles, Dave had various ...
09.30.2022 Randy Schwimmer on Private Credit, Fed Shocks and Recession Risks Randy is co-head of senior lending and oversees senior lending origination and capital markets for Churchill Asset Management, which has $40bn of committed capital. Randy is widely credited with developing loan syndications for middle market companies. Prior to joining the ...
09.23.2022 Howard Davies on How UK Chancellors Steer the UK In Crisis Howard Davies is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Natwest Group. Previously, he was the Director of the London School of Economics (LSE) from 2003 until 2011. Prior to this appointment he was chairman of the UK Financial ...
09.17.2022 Dr Sam Ramani on the Russia-Ukraine War, Recent Ukraine Wins and Putin’s Endgame Sam is a tutor of politics and international relations at the University of Oxford, and an Associate Fellow at the British defence think tank, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). He contributes regularly to media outlets, such as Foreign Policy, ...
09.09.2022 Artem Milinchuk on Alternative Assets, Farmland and Inflation Hedges Artem has over 10 years of finance experience in food, agriculture, and farmland. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School, and a BA and MA in Economics from the Higher School of Economics. Prior to founding FarmTogether, Artem was ...
09.02.2022 Karl Massey on the End of Investing as We Know It Karl is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and Mentor at Creative Destruction Labs (Said Business School, University of Oxford). He began his career at JPMorgan trading fixed income. In 1996, Karl oversaw Banco Santander's Global Asset-Liability activities in ...
08.26.2022 James Fok on the US-China Financial Cold War, Dollar Dominance and Role of HK James Fok is a veteran financial and strategic advisor to corporations and governments. He served as a senior executive at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) from 2012 until 2021. While there, he played a major role in a number ...
08.19.2022 Cameron Crise On Fed’s Balance Sheet Problem, Equity Drawdowns and Inflation Cameron Crise is a macro strategist at Bloomberg, where he writes the Macro Man column and posts on the Markets Live blog. Previously, he was a global macro portfolio manager at Graham Capital in Connecticut and Nylon Capital in London. ...
08.12.2022 Denis Shull on Emotions as a Dataset and Avoiding Investment Mistakes [Replay] Denise Shull is the Founder and CEO of ReThink. In that role, she uses neuroscience and modern psychoanalysis to help clients become successful in investing, trading, and leading teams. She has consulted on the development of Showtime’s BILLIONS, coached Olympic ...
08.04.2022 Diego Parrilla On High Inflation, Anti-Bubbles and the Problem with Stop Losses Diego is Managing Partner at $1.8b Quadriga Asset Managers. Prior to joining Quadriga in Madrid in 2017, Diego worked in London, New York, and Singapore for two decades and held senior leadership roles across macro commodity markets at JP Morgan, ...
07.29.2022 Lindsay Politi On the Inflation Path, Fed Cuts and Money Printing Lindsay Politi is Head of Inflation Strategies at One River Asset Management. Lindsay began her career at Wellington Management in Boston where she was head of Global Inflation-linked Investments. In that role she was one of the top TIPS managers ...
07.22.2022 Ivy Zelman on the Coming US Housing Crisis Ivy Zelman is CEO at Zelman & Associates. She co-founded Zelman & Associates in 2007 which is a leading housing research firm in the US. In 2005, Ivy called the top of the housing market. From there, she called the ...
07.15.2022 Mikihiro Matsuoka on Bank of Japan policy, Japanisation of Economies, and the Demise of Capitalism Matsuoka-San is the Chief Economist of SBI Securities in Japan. Before that, he was the Chief Economist for Japan at Deutsche Bank. Overall, he has been involved in macroeconomic analysis at research institutions and financial institutions for the past 30 ...
07.08.2022 Boris Vladimirov on Fed Scenarios, Recession Risks and EM Outperformers Boris is one of the top macro thinkers in the market. He is a managing director at Goldman Sachs. Before GS, he was partner and portfolio manager at Rokos Capital Management, Fortress and Brevan Howard. Boris started his career on ...
07.01.2022 Marion Laboure on Democratising Finance, Bitcoin as Digital Diamond and Central Bank Digital Currency This episode is sponsored by Amber Group Marion is a senior economist at Deutsche Bank in London and a lecturer at Harvard University. She has extensive private sector, public policy, and monetary policy experience, including at the European Commission, the ...
06.24.2022 Raymond Sagayam on the Biggest Overlooked Market Risk, Building World Class Teams, and Lessons from Bodybuilding Ray is the Chief Investment Officer of Fixed Income at Pictet Asset Management. He joined Pictet in 2010 as Head of Total Return Fixed Income, before becoming CIO in 2017 and an Equity Partner in 2018. Before joining Pictet, Raymond ...
06.17.2022 Dominique Dwor-Frecaut on How the Fed is Setting Policy and Why an 8% US Interest Rate is Likely Dominique Dwor-Frecaut is a Senior Macro Strategist for Macro Hive based in Los Angeles. She has been producing alpha-generating trade ideas in FX and rates in EM and G10 at established and startup macro hedge funds in the US since ...
06.10.2022 Bert Gochet on China Risks, India’s Future and Brazil’s Commodities Bert is a macro strategist at Macro Hive, specialising in Emerging Markets strategy. Between 2009 and 2017, he was co-head of EM strategy with a focus on fixed income and currencies at JP Morgan. He held other senior research roles ...
06.03.2022 Thorsten Wegener On the Simplest Way to Understand Option Markets Thorsten spent twenty years trading equity derivatives and was a partner at Bear Stearns. He was also head of equity derivatives at Panmure Gordan and Head of Trading Warrants and Structured Products at WestLB. Currently, he educates and lectures on ...
05.27.2022 Stéphane Ouellette on the Crypto Crash, and What Next Stéphane is CEO and Co-Founder of FRNT Financial – a crypto-focused investment bank. He began his capital markets career working in the Equity Products group on the trading floor at BMO Capital Markets (BMO) in 2010 as a Cash Equity ...
05.19.2022 Jay Newman on the Hidden Story of How Money is Moved Around the World Jay spent 40 years in international finance, including at Elliot Management and Lehmans. His primary focus was on distressed EM sovereign debt. He was central to the historic 15-year fight to recover billions of dollars in defaulted Argentine debt. That ...
05.13.2022 Mike Philbrick on Bond Massacres, Better Diversification and Systematic Thinking Mike is the Chief Executive Officer of ReSolve Global Asset Management. He has over 29 years of experience in investment management and is responsible for investment decisions, coaching, and strategic leadership. He has co-authored the book Adaptive Asset Allocation: Dynamic ...
05.05.2022 Tymofiy Mylovanov on Ukrainian Resistance, Russia’s Hidden Economic Weapon and Germany’s Error This podcast is sponsored by Masterworks, the first platform for buying and selling shares representing an investment in iconic artworks. They are making it possible to invest in multimillion-dollar works from artists like Banksy, Kaws, Basquiat, and many more. Tymofiy ...
04.29.2022 Phil Suttle on the Inflation Combustion Model, the Fed’s Errors, and US Housing Phil is the founder of Suttle Economics – a leading research consultancy. Before that, he held senior roles at Tudor, the Institute of International Finance (IIF), JP Morgan, Barclays, the New York Fed and World Bank. He was educated at ...
04.22.2022 John Butler on Stagflation, Financial Instability, and World Wars John is a commodity guru amongst other things. He has 25 years of experience in international finance. He has served as a Managing Director for bulge-bracket investment banks on both sides of the Atlantic in research, strategy, asset allocation, and ...
04.14.2022 Daniel Zwirn on Finding Value in the Biggest Bubble in History Dan Zwirn is the Co-Founder, CEO, and CIO of Arena Investors LP. Arena is a $3.4 billion global investment firm focusing on special situations asset and credit investments in corporates, real estate, structured finance, and corporate securities. Before founding Arena ...
04.08.2022 Josh Young on $200 Oil and the Structural Energy Supply Problem This podcast is sponsored by Masterworks, the first platform for buying and selling shares representing an investment in iconic artworks. They are making it possible to invest in multimillion-dollar works from artists like Banksy, Kaws, Basquiat, and many more. Josh ...

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Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez episodes:

Jim Leitner on Creating a Macro Edge, Trading Options and Carry Trades

Lindsay Politi on the Silicon Valley Bank Fall-Out, Duration Bubbles and Inflation

Niall Ferguson on Cold War 2, Middle East Conflict and Woke Students

Mustafa Chowdhury on Mortgage Risks, Fed Shocks and Derivatives

Timothy Ash on Russia’s Failure, China Intervention and EM Re-Alignment

Mikihiro Matsuoka on Japan Inflation, BoJ Outlook and Debt Problems

Richard Oldfield on Value Investing, Warren Buffet and Elon Musk

Deborah Seligsohn on What Everyone Gets Wrong on China’s COVID and Climate Policies

Phil Suttle on Fed Murdering Expansions and Bond Worries

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen and Alan Dunne on How to Make Money From Following the Trend

Yesha Yadav on the Galactic Risks of the US Treasury Markets

Andrew Revkin on What to Do About Climate Risk

Ivy Zelman on the Coming US Housing Crisis

Agathe Demarais on How Sanctions Backfire on the US

Shannon O'Neil on What Everyone Gets Wrong About (De)Globalisation

David Rubenstein on How to Invest Like Superstar Investors

Fred Thiel on FTX Fallout, Bitcoin Energy Myths, and Future of Crypto

Gerard DiPippo on CIA, US-China Tech War, and Taiwan Risks

Victoria Ivashina on Whether Private Markets Will Trigger a Crisis

Igor Yelnik on How to Trade Macro Differently

Nouriel Roubini on World War 3 Starting, Debt Crisis and Robot Takeover

Doomberg on Energy Scarcity, Nuclear Power and Failure of Energy Transition Policies

Robert Carver on How To Build Successful Trading Strategies

Dave Newman on Hedge Fund Success, Investment Banking Lessons and Writing Daily

Randy Schwimmer on Private Credit, Fed Shocks and Recession Risks

Howard Davies on How UK Chancellors Steer the UK In Crisis

Dr Sam Ramani on the Russia-Ukraine War, Recent Ukraine Wins and Putin’s Endgame

Artem Milinchuk on Alternative Assets, Farmland and Inflation Hedges

Karl Massey on the End of Investing as We Know It

James Fok on the US-China Financial Cold War, Dollar Dominance and Role of HK

Cameron Crise On Fed’s Balance Sheet Problem, Equity Drawdowns and Inflation

Denis Shull on Emotions as a Dataset and Avoiding Investment Mistakes [Replay]

Diego Parrilla On High Inflation, Anti-Bubbles and the Problem with Stop Losses

Lindsay Politi On the Inflation Path, Fed Cuts and Money Printing

Ivy Zelman on the Coming US Housing Crisis

Mikihiro Matsuoka on Bank of Japan policy, Japanisation of Economies, and the Demise of Capitalism

Boris Vladimirov on Fed Scenarios, Recession Risks and EM Outperformers

Marion Laboure on Democratising Finance, Bitcoin as Digital Diamond and Central Bank Digital Currency

Raymond Sagayam on the Biggest Overlooked Market Risk, Building World Class Teams, and Lessons from Bodybuilding

Dominique Dwor-Frecaut on How the Fed is Setting Policy and Why an 8% US Interest Rate is Likely

Bert Gochet on China Risks, India’s Future and Brazil’s Commodities

Thorsten Wegener On the Simplest Way to Understand Option Markets

Stéphane Ouellette on the Crypto Crash, and What Next

Jay Newman on the Hidden Story of How Money is Moved Around the World

Mike Philbrick on Bond Massacres, Better Diversification and Systematic Thinking

Tymofiy Mylovanov on Ukrainian Resistance, Russia’s Hidden Economic Weapon and Germany’s Error

Phil Suttle on the Inflation Combustion Model, the Fed’s Errors, and US Housing

John Butler on Stagflation, Financial Instability, and World Wars

Daniel Zwirn on Finding Value in the Biggest Bubble in History

Josh Young on $200 Oil and the Structural Energy Supply Problem