Marc is author of Net Interest – a leading weekly newsletter on the world of finance. Before this, Marc spent ten years at leading hedge fund Lansdowne Partners, where he was a partner and portfolio manager. This was after he spent time on the sell-side working for Barclays Investment Bank (BZW), Schroders and then Credit Suisse, where he was head of the European banks research team. In this podcast we discuss:

1. How to predict financial crises
2. How are financials different from other companies
3. What do banks price-to-bank ratios tell us?
4. Can banks rebrand themselves as fintech?
5. What are the key fintech trends
6. How will credit evolve
7. Is the crypto challenge to finance real?
8. How to do well in angel investing
9. Why have private equity firms institutionalised better than hedge funds
10. What is the state of sell-side research?
11. Books that influenced Marc: Fooled by Randomness (Taleb), Origin of Wealth (Beinhocker) and The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets (Mandelbrot).