Masters in Business

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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz looks at the people and ideas that shape markets, investing and business.

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Steven L. Fradkin on the Cr...

11.24.2021

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Steven Fradkin, president of Northern Trust's wealth management business unit, which has $355 billion in assets under management. Fradkin was previously chief financial officer and head of international business at Northern Trust, among ...

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11.24.2021 Steven L. Fradkin on the Creation of Wealth (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Steven Fradkin, president of Northern Trust's wealth management business unit, which has $355 billion in assets under management. Fradkin was previously chief financial officer and head of international business at Northern Trust, among ...
11.24.2021 Edwin Conway on BlackRock Alternative Investors (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Edwin Conway, the global head of BlackRock Alternative Investors (BAI). BAI, one of the fastest-growing parts of the investment giant BlackRock – which is itself the world’s largest asset manager, with $9.46 trillion ...
11.12.2021 Robin Wigglesworth on the Creation of the Index Fund (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Robin Wigglesworth, who is the global finance correspondent for the Financial Times and author of the just-published “Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever.” ...
11.05.2021 Thomas S. Gayner on Things That Matter in Markets (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Markel Corp. co-chief executive officer Thomas S. Gayner. Gayner oversees investing activities for the company — which boasts a capital portfolio of $27 billion — as well as the Markel Ventures companies. He ...
10.29.2021 Lisa Jones on Investing With a Purpose (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Lisa Jones, who leads the $100 billion U.S. arm of the French asset management giant Amundi, which has more than $2 trillion in assets under management globally. In addition to serving as president ...
10.22.2021 Sukhinder Singh Cassidy on Entrepreneurship (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, a tech executive and entrepreneur with more than two decades of experience founding, scaling and advising companies. She is founder and chair of theBoardlist, a premium talent marketplace, and author ...
10.16.2021 Soraya Darabi on Social-Media Startups (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Soraya Darabi, who is co-founder and general partner at TMV, an early-stage venture firm which has funded a broad range of startups. Darabi is also the founder of Transact Global and host of ...
10.08.2021 Chamath Palihapitiya on Venture Investments (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Chamath Palihapitiya, the founder and CEO of Social Capital LP, which backs breakthrough companies in areas such as health care, education, climate change and space. Prior to founding Social Capital, Palihapitiya was a ...
10.01.2021 Jack Schwager on the Glory Days of Trading (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jack Schwager, an expert in futures and hedge funds and co-founder and chief research officer of FundSeeder. Schwager has also written many books, including the "Market Wizards" series; his most recent is "Unknown ...
09.24.2021 Hubert Joly on the Heart of Business (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Hubert Joly, who earned a host of accolades during his tenure as chairman and CEO of Best Buy, and is currently a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. Joly's new book is "The ...
09.17.2021 Campbell Harvey on the Future of Finance (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Campbell Harvey, a Duke University finance professor whose courses have included “Innovation and Cryptoventures” and “Blockchain Business Models.” Dr. Harvey is also a research associate at NBER and a partner and senior adviser ...
09.10.2021 Jack Devine on the Afghan War’s Financial Disaster (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jack Devine, a 32-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency and the founding partner and president of the international risk consulting firm The Arkin Group. Devine is also the author of “Spymaster’s Prism: ...
09.03.2021 Robert Hormats on the Art of Business and Diplomacy (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Tiedemann Advisors managing director Robert Hormats, whose decades of experience in international trade and investment have brought him to posts in Western Europe, China, India, Russia, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Prior ...
08.27.2021 Joan Solotar on Private Equity Funds (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Joan Solotar, who is the global head of private wealth solutions at Blackstone, which has $684 billion in assets under management. Solotar also serves on Blackstone's management committee, and is a member of ...
08.20.2021 Fran Kinniry on Private Equity Portfolio Investments (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Fran Kinniry, who is global head of private investments at the $7 trillion Vanguard Group. During his more than two-decade tenure at Vanguard, Kinniry helped create the concept of advisor's alpha, and was ...
08.13.2021 Greg Becker on the Innovation Business (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Greg Becker, who is the chief executive officer of Silicon Valley Bank — the only bank dedicated to the global innovation sector — and president and CEO of SVB Financial Group. Greg joined ...
08.06.2021 Sandy Rattray on Strategic Risk Management (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Sandy Rattray, who co-invented the VIX index and is chief investment officer at Man Group, which has more than $125 billion in assets under management. Rattray is also co-author of the recent book ...
07.30.2021 Charity Dean on the Lessons of Covid-19 (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with public-health expert Dr. Charity Dean, who as a health official in California was among the first Americans to recognize the grave threat posed by Covid-19. Her story is recounted in Michael Lewis's latest ...
07.19.2021 Brian Deese on Unleashing Competition (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council under President Joe Biden, about the administration's plans to challenge anti-competitive forces across the economy. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
07.16.2021 Mat Ishbia on Leadership and Mortgage Lending Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Mat Ishbia, the chief executive officer of United Wholesale Mortgage, which is the top wholesale lender and No. 2 overall mortgage lender in the United States. The 9,000-person firm went public in the ...
07.09.2021 Christine Hurtsellers on the Business of Trust (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Christine Hurtsellers, the chief executive officer of Voya Investment Management LLC. The firm manages approximately $252 billion in assets across fixed income, senior loans, equities, multi-asset strategies and solutions, private equity, and real ...
07.02.2021 Steven Romick on Portfolio Investments (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Steven Romick of First Pacific Advisors, which manages approximately $28 billion. Romick is a managing partner and portfolio manager at FPA; prior to joining the firm in 1996, he was chairman of Crescent ...
06.25.2021 Joe Moglia on Going From Football to Wall Street (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Joe Moglia, who began his career as a football coach before moving into business and has more than 20 years of experience in each field. He is currently chairman of Fundamental Global Investors, ...
06.18.2021 Robert Cialdini on the Psychology of Influence (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Dr. Robert Cialdini, whose bestselling books include "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" and "Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade." A professor emeritus of psychology and marketing at Arizona State University, he ...
06.11.2021 Brad Stone on Big Tech Companies (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Brad Stone, author of the just-published “Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire” and senior executive editor for technology at Bloomberg News. Stone is also the author of the ...
06.04.2021 Harin de Silva on Portfolio Management (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Harindra (Harin) de Silva, a portfolio manager and team lead for the Analytic Investors team at Wells Fargo Asset Management, which has $603 billion in assets under management. He was previously a principal ...
05.28.2021 Carson Block on the Short-Selling Market (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Carson Block, who is the chief investment officer of Muddy Waters Capital LLC, an activist investment firm with $261 million in assets under management. Block was featured in the book "The Most Dangerous ...
05.21.2021 Scott Sperling on Innovative Investment Strategies (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Scott Sperling, who is co-CEO of private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL), and a member of the firm’s management and investment committees. He previously spent more than a decade as managing ...
05.14.2021 Daniel Kahneman on Behavioral Economics (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with behavioral economics expert Daniel Kahneman, who wrote the bestselling book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" and won the Nobel Prize in economics. Kahneman is a professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton ...
05.04.2021 Michael Lewis on White House Pandemic Planning (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Michael Lewis, who is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. His books include “Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt,” “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,” “Liar’s Poker” and “The Fifth Risk.” He also ...
04.30.2021 Jonathan Miller on the Real Estate Industry (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jonathan Miller, president and CEO of Miller Samuel Inc., a real estate appraisal and consulting firm he co-founded in 1986. He is a state-certified real estate appraiser in New York and Connecticut who ...
04.26.2021 Jack Brennan on Succeeding the Legendary John Bogle (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jack Brennan, chairman emeritus and senior adviser at The Vanguard Group, which as one of the world’s largest investment companies has more than $6 trillion in assets under management. Brennan joined Vanguard in ...
04.16.2021 Robert Arnott on Global Asset Management (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Robert Arnott, the founder and chairman of the board of Research Affiliates LLC. Arnott plays an active role in the firm’s research, portfolio management, product innovation, business strategy and client-facing activities. As of ...
04.09.2021 John Schlifske on the Legacy of Northwestern Mutual (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with John Schlifske, who is chairman, president and chief executive officer at Northwestern Mutual. He rose through the ranks after having joined the company in 1987 as an investment specialist. Northwestern Mutual has more ...
04.01.2021 Shirl Penney on Building a $100 Billion RIA Platform (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Shirl Penney, who is the founder of Dynasty Financial Partners, a leading integrated platform services company for independent wealth-management advisory firms. Penney currently serves as Dynasty's president and CEO and is a member ...
03.26.2021 Gary Chropuvka on Financial Engineering (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Gary Chropuvka, who recently joined the quantitative asset management firm WorldQuant as president. He was previously the co-head of the quantitative investment strategies team at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Learn more about your ...
03.19.2021 Bill Gurley on Entrepreneurs and Technology (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with legendary venture-capital investor Bill Gurley, who has spent more than 15 years as a general partner at Benchmark Capital. Prior his work in venture capital, Gurley spent four years on Wall Street as ...
03.12.2021 Jeff Immelt on Crisis Management and Leadership (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jeff Immelt, who is a venture partner at the global venture capital and private equity firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Prior to joining NEA in 2018, Jeff was the ninth chairman of GE ...
03.05.2021 William J. Bernstein on Crowd Behavior (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with the financial theorist and retired neurologist William J. Bernstein, who co-founded the investment management firm Efficient Frontier Advisors and has written several books on finance and economic history. His titles include “The Birth ...
02.26.2021 Jean Hynes, Wellington’s Incoming CEO (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jean Hynes, Wellington’s incoming CEO, on rising through the ranks, managing one of the world’s largest asset managers, and investing in health care in the days of Covid. She manages the $51 billion ...
02.19.2021 Doug Braunstein on Investment Banking (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Doug Braunstein, founder and managing partner at Hudson Executive Capital, which has underwritten several successful SPAC offerings and manages $1.6 billion in assets. Braunstein previously held several roles at JPMorgan Chase — including ...
02.12.2021 Ben Inker on Value and Asset Allocation (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Ben Inker, the head of asset allocation at GMO, which manages about $60 billion in assets. In his nearly three decades at GMO, Inker has served as an analyst for the quantitative equity ...
02.05.2021 Kevin Landis on Technology Investments (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Kevin Landis, who is CEO and chief investment officer of Firsthand Capital Management. Landis founded Firsthand in 1994 and has since become one of the nation's best-known technology investors. He has been making ...
01.29.2021 Ron Baron on Investing in Tesla and SpaceX (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with legendary investor Ron Baron, who is the chairman, CEO and portfolio manager at Baron Funds. He founded Baron Capital Management and Baron Capital Inc. in 1982, and boasts more than a half century ...
01.22.2021 Andrew Beer on the Hedge Fund Industry (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Andrew Beer, who serves as the managing member at Dynamic Beta investments LLC (formerly branded Beachhead Capital Management) and is co-portfolio manager of the firm's investment strategies. Beer has more than 25 years ...
01.15.2021 Adam Karr on Contrarian Investing Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Adam Karr, a portfolio manager at Orbis Investment Management and head of the firm’s U.S. division. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
01.08.2021 Sébastien Page on Smart Asset Allocation Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Sébastien Page, author of 2020's "Beyond Diversification: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Asset Allocation" and head of T. Rowe Price's multi-asset division, which manages $363.5 billion. Page is also a member ...
12.31.2020 Dave Welling on What Financial Services Should Look Like Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Dave Welling, CEO of Mercer Advisors, a Denver-based RIA that manages more than $21 billion. Welling's nontraditional career path involves experience in consulting, private equity and technology, which has given him a unique ...
12.26.2020 Jeff Poggi on the Art and Science of High-End Audio Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jeff Poggi, co-CEO of McIntosh Group, the legendary manufacturer of premium audio equipment. Despite the pandemic, the company has notched its best year for sales in its 70-year history. Prior to joining McIntosh ...
12.18.2020 Tom Slater on Growth Investing (Podcast) Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Tom Slater, who is head of the U.S. equities team and a decision maker on long-term global growth portfolios at the U.K.-based investment firm Baillie Gifford. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

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