Masters in Business

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Perth Tolle, who is the founder of Life + Liberty Indexes and creator of the Freedom 100 EM Index (FRDM index). Prior to forming Life + Liberty Indexes, Tolle was a private wealth advisor at Fidelity Investments in Los Angeles and Houston. Prior to Fidelity, Tolle lived and worked in Beijing and Hong Kong, where her observations led her to explore the relationship between freedom and markets. Tolle was named one of the Ten to Watch in 2020 by Wealth Management Magazine and one of the 100 People Transforming Business by Business Insider in 2021. 

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jonathan Miller, who is president, CEO and co-founder of the real-estate appraisal and consulting firm Miller Samuel Inc. Miller, a state-certified real-estate appraiser in New York and Connecticut, holds Counselor of Real Estate (CRE) and Certified Relocation Professional (CRP) credentials, and is an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University's graduate school of architecture and planning. 

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Dr. Charles Strom, who has spent the past 30 years in the fast-changing field of genetic testing. The CEO and co-founder of Liquid Diagnostics, which uses new technology to analyze ultra-short DNA fragments in saliva and blood, Strom previously served as medical director for genetic testing at Quest Diagnostics, did groundbreaking work in pre-implantation genetics while at the Reproductive Genetics Institute, and served as a faculty member at the University of Chicago, where he also earned his doctorate and medical degrees.  

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Mark Mobius, known as “the Godfather of Emerging Markets,” who has spent more than 40 years working in and traveling throughout developing economies. Prior to launching the eponymous Mobius Capital Partners in 2018, he served as executive chairman of Franklin Templeton Investments’ emerging markets group, which he helped to grow from $100 million across six markets to more than $40 billion in 70 countries. Mobius has a Ph.D. in economics from MIT and has authored 12 books.  

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, the movie star-turned-California governor, has been interested in business since long before he was Conan or the Terminator. For more than four decades, his behind-the-scenes partner has been Paul Wachter, whose Main Street Advisors was born 25 years ago, with Schwarzenegger's encouragement.
The modern multihyphenate -- think LeBron, Drake, Billie Eilish -- are following a template the pair established in the 1980s, as Schwarzenegger successfully expanded his popularity and wealth through savvy dealmaking. The key element: Don't just endorse when you can own a piece of the product.

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Daniel C. Chung, who is chief executive officer and chief investment officer of the asset-management firm Alger. He is also portfolio manager of several Alger strategies, including the Spectra fund, which is worth $4.5 billion. Chung has nearly three decades of investment experience; prior to that, he attended Harvard Law School and Stanford University. He is also a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute.  

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 Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Adam Parker, who is the founder and CEO of Trivariate Research LP. From 2010 to early 2017, Adam was the chief US equity strategist and director of global quantitative research at Morgan Stanley, where he was acknowledged as a top strategist and quantitative researcher multiple times by Institutional Investor magazine. He was also a member of Morgan Stanley’s Global Investment Committee, a seven-person group responsible for asset allocation recommendations for the firm’s $2 trillion private wealth network. A prolific researcher, Parker co-authored a groundbreaking paper on gender diversity as a risk factor. He holds a Ph.D. in statistics from Boston University. 

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Gerard O’Reilly, who is co-chief executive officer and chief investment officer at Dimensional Fund Advisors, which has $650 billion in assets under management. O’Reilly is also a director at the firm. Prior to joining Dimensional in 2004, O’Reilly earned a Ph.D. in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology. 

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 Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Boaz Weinstein, who is founder and chief investment officer of Saba Capital Management. Prior to launching Saba as an independent firm in 2009, Weinstein was co-head of global credit trading at Deutsche Bank, where he founded Saba Principal Strategies as a proprietary trading group in 1998. Weinstein first came to public notice as the fund manager on the other side of the derivatives trade from the London Whale, which ultimately cost JPMorgan Chase & Co. losses of at least $6.2 billion in 2012. 

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Alex Gurevich, the founder and chief investment officer of San Francisco-based global macro investment firm HonTe Advisors. Gurevich, who has more than 20 years of trading experience, formerly ran global macro at J.P. Morgan; he earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago. His most recent book, "The Trades of March 2020: A Shield against Uncertainty," was published in paperback this year.

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