Masters in Business

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Liz Hoffman, who is the business and finance editor at Semafor and author of “Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World's Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink.” She was previously a senior reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she covered financial markets and corporate dealmaking.

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jawad S. Mian, who is the founder and managing editor at Stray Reflections, an independent global macro research and trading advisory firm with a focus on major investment themes. His clients include some of the world’s largest hedge funds, family offices and institutional investors. Mian studied finance and economics at the University of Western Ontario, and is a CFA and CMT charterholder.

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Thomas Wagner, co-chairman and co-founder of Knighthead Capital Management LLC, which has $10 billion in assets under management. He is a co-investor, with Tom Brady, in several sports assets, including a pickleball team, the English Football League's Birmingham City club and an endurance auto racing team. Before founding Knighthead Capital, Wagner was a managing director responsible for running the distressed and high-yield credit trading desks at Goldman Sachs & Co. Wagner began his career doing hedge fund accounting at Ernst & Young; prior to joining Goldman in 2000, he was a high-yield trader and special-situations desk analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston.

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On a special 500th-episode edition of Masters in Business, Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jenny Johnson, the president and chief executive officer of Franklin Templeton. Johnson joined the firm in 1988 and held leadership roles in all its major divisions, including investment management, distribution, technology, operations and high-net-worth, before becoming CEO in February 2020. She also led the historic acquisition of Legg Mason in 2020, with the combined organization managing more than $1.5 trillion globally. Among many other accolades, she has been named to Barron's list of the 100 most influential women in US finance for three consecutive years, most recently in 2022.

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Ilana Weinstein, who is founder and chief executive officer of The IDW Group LLC, an executive search firm focused on placing senior hedge fund and business professionals across the investment landscape. Weinstein is also a frequent guest on Bloomberg and CNBC television programs, discussing market trends and the hedge fund universe. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Peter Borish, who is chairman and chief executive officer of Computer Trading Corporation, an investment and advisory firm whose largest consulting client is the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Borish was previously founding partner and right-hand man to Paul Tudor Jones at Tudor Investment Corporation, where he was director of research for 10 years. Borish also previously served as chief strategist for Quad Group LLC.

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Gretchen Morgenson, senior financial reporter for the NBC News investigative unit. A former stockbroker and alumna of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her “trenchant and incisive” reporting on finance. She and coauthor Joshua Rosner recently published “These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs ― and Wrecks ― America.” They also wrote the 2011 bestseller “Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon,” about the mortgage crisis.

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A special live edition of Bloomberg Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz from the Bloomberg Hedge Fund Startup Conference. Barry discusses the current environment for hedge fund launches with IDW Group Founder and Chief Executive Officer Ilana D. Weinstein, Woodline Partners Co-Chief Investment Officer Mike Rockefeller, Fernbridge Capita Management Founder Brennan Diaz and Knighthead Capital Management Co-Founder Thomas Wagner. Taped May 31, 2023

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Mathieu Chabran, who is the co-founder of Paris-based Tikehau Capital, which has €39.7 billion ($42.5 billion) in assets under management. Prior to co-founding Tikehau in 2004, Chabran worked at Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch; he graduated from ESCP Business School and Sciences Po Aix.

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