Masters in Business

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Aswath Damodaran, who holds the Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education at New York University's Stern School of Business. A nine-time "Professor of the Year" winner at NYU, Damodaran teaches classes in corporate finance and valuation to MBA students. He has also written several books on corporate finance and equity valuation and has published widely in journals. He received his MBA and Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. His next book, "The Corporate Lifecycle: Business, Investment, and Management Implications," will be published in December. 

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Ken Kencel, who is president and chief executive officer of Churchill Asset Management, a private credit firm with $46 billion in assets under management that was the top US private equity lender in the 2022 PitchBook league tables and was named 2022 Lender Firm of the Year by The M&A Advisor. Churchill Asset Management is an affiliate of Nuveen, the $1.1 trillion asset-management arm of TIAA. Kencel, who has more than three decades of experience in the investment industry, also serves as chairman of the board, president and CEO of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending Inc., Churchill’s publicly registered business development company. 

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with former hedge fund manager Dominique Mielle, author of 2021’s “Damsel in Distressed: My Life in the Golden Age of Hedge Funds.” Mielle spent two decades as a partner and senior portfolio manager at Canyon Capital Advisors and was named one of the “50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds” by the Hedge Fund Journal and E&Y. She currently serves on the boards of four publicly traded firms and one private company. 

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Cliff Asness, who cofounded AQR Capital Management — which has $100 billion in assets under management — and serves as its chief investment officer. Also an active researcher, Asness has contributed to publications such as The Journal of Portfolio Management, The Journal of Finance and The Journal of Financial Economics, and has received a variety of accolades, including the James R. Vertin Award from CFA Institute in recognition of his lifetime contribution to research. Asness earned his master's in business administration as well as his Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago. 

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Richard Bernstein, the chief executive officer and chief investment officer of Richard Bernstein Advisors LLC, which manages $14.6 billion in assets. Bernstein, who was previously chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch, has been named to the Institutional Investor’s “All-America Research Team” 18 times and has been inducted into the Institutional Investor Hall of Fame. He is also the author of “Style Investing: Unique Insight into Equity Management,” which is widely viewed as the seminal book on style-oriented investment strategies, as well as “Navigate the Noise: Investing in the New Age of Media and Hype.”

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 Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Dr. Maria Vassalou, who is co-chief investment officer of multi-asset solutions at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Prior to her career in asset management, Dr. Vassalou was an associate professor of finance at Columbia Business School, which she joined in 1995 and where she established many of the investment principles she employs today. She earned her Ph.D. in financial economics from London Business School.  

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with David Layton, who is the chief executive officer of Partners Group, a global private markets firm with more than $135 billion in assets under management. Layton, who joined Partners Group in 2005, leads the firm's executive team and global executive board and is also a member of the global investment committee. He was previously the head of Partners Group's private equity business department.  

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Mortimer “Tim” Buckley, who is chairman and chief executive officer of Vanguard. Previously, Buckley was Vanguard’s chief investment officer and chief information officer, overseeing the company’s internally managed stock, bond, and money market portfolios as well as its investment research and methodology. Vanguard is one of the world’s largest investment management companies, with assets under management of over with $7 trillion. 

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Rick Rieder, who is BlackRock's chief investment officer of global fixed income, head of the fundamental fixed income business, and head of the global allocation investment team. He is responsible for some $2.4 trillion in assets. Before joining BlackRock in 2009, Rieder was president and chief executive officer of R3 Capital Partners.  

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with financial journalist William D. Cohan, who is the bestselling author of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World, House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, and The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co., among other books. A former Wall Street M&A investment banker for 17 years, Cohan is also a founding partner at the media company Puck. His latest book, Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon, was released in November.  

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