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Guest this week: Stephanie Link and Mike Larson

Stephanie Link

 Stephanie Link is the Chief Investment Strategist and Head of Investment Solutions at Hightower Advisors, a national wealth management firm that provides investment, financial and retirement planning services to individuals, foundations and family offices. In addition, Ms. Link runs an equity portfolio within the Investment Solutions group which has $3.5B in assets under management.

Prior to joining Hightower, Ms. Link was the Senior Managing Director and Head of Global Equities research at Nuveen, where she co-managed the CREF Stock Variable Annuity Portfolio with $200 billion in assets, managed her own US Core portfolio with $3.7 billion in assets

Before joining Nuveen, Ms. Link spent seven years at TheStreet as Chief Investment Officer and Co-Portfolio manager of Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust. Before that, she served for 10 years at Prudential Equity Group as Managing Director of Institutional Sales and Director of Research. She began her career at Dean Witter Reynolds in the Institutional Sales Department.

 Mike Larson

Mike Larson serves as vice president and editor-in-chief at MoneyShow, overseeing all aspects of its investor education efforts and conferences and planning the firm's content operations. Before joining MoneyShow, he was a senior editor and analyst at Weiss Ratings. Where he produced the company's Safe Money Report, a comprehensive Monthly Market Overview. Full of detailed, hard-hitting analysis about what is driving the stock market overall, and dividend-paying investments., Weekend Windfalls, and Heat Maps newsletters, while also writing, editing, and trading several other past products.

He specializes in Income-Focused Stock & Options Strategies.

His areas of expertise as an analyst include domestic and global interest rates, commercial and residential real estate, and central bank policy.

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Guests: Jeff Macke and Neely Tamminga

Jeff Macke

Founder and President of Macke Asset Management

Founding cast-member of CNBC's Fast Money (2006-2009)

He has been writing about stocks and markets on and off-line since the mid 1990's. He worked for and has appeared on TheStreet.com, Yahoo Finance, the WSJ, the late Minyanville and just about everywhere else.

Co-Wrote "Clash of the Financial Pundits" with Josh Brown.

Started his career with Macy's (in the management training program...and sold suits and shoes back when you had to put them on men's feet!). Grew up in Target stores (his dad was CEO of what was then Dayton Hudson).

Currently in-development on a new project with Herb Greenberg.

Neely Tamminga

 Neely is the co-founder and CEO of DISTILL—a specialized advisory service for executive leaders and board directors on matters of the consumer economy.  Prior to launching DISTILL, Neely worked for 20+ years on Wall Street covering the consumer sector where she advised institutional and private equity investors in their investment decisions.  During her career, Neely led the consumer research practice as a managing director at Piper Jaffray (now Piper Sandler). 

 Key career awards include top sell-side analyst in The Wall Street Journal Best on the Street analyst survey in 2006 and 2011 for coverage in broadline and apparel retailers.  In 2007, Neely was named by Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal as a 40 Under Forty award winner.  A frequent keynote speaker on matters of the consumer economy, Neely was included in the 2020 lineup of speakers for TEDxMinneapolis

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Guests Stephanie Pomboy and Larry Mcdonald

Stephanie Pomboy 

 Stephanie Pomboy is the founder, owner, and president of MacroMavens. She is also a financial analyst, market strategist, and economist. 

She began her career at Cyrus J. Lawrence LLC's investment management company. Then worked as a managing director at  economic research firm ISI Group with Ed Hyman and Nancy Lazar from 1991 to 2002.where she provided timely financial insight and analysis to the country's most sophisticated and largest institutions. 

In 2002 she founded her own firm MacroMavens delivering prescient insights on emerging macroeconomic trends and their implications for global financial markets .

 In addition, she hosts a joint podcast called The Super Terrific Happy Hour with Grant Williams of Things That Make You Go Hmmm… newsletter. 

Lawrence McDonald

Larry McDonald is a New York Times bestselling author, CNBC contributor, and Political Risk Expert. He is also the creator of The Bear Traps Report, a weekly independent Macro Research Platform focusing on global political and systemic risk with actionable trade ideas founded in 2010

From 2011 – 2016, he was Managing Director and Head of U.S. Macro Strategy at SocGen

In late 2006, as Vice President at Lehman Brothers, he led his team into betting against the subprime mortgage market, profiting the firm over $2 billion before its demise.

Prior to working at Lehman, he was the co-founder of Convertbond.com, a website that provided convertible securities information with news, valuation, terms and analysis tools for convertible bonds, convertible preferred stocks, and other convertible securities. Convertbond was acquired by Morgan Stanley in 1999.

His latest book titled How to Listen When Markets Speak is out March 26th

Guests: Arjun Murti and Rory Johnston

Arjun Murti

Arjun was the Goldman Sachs “Super Spike” analyst from the 2000s commodity bull market era. He retired as a partner in 2014 after 22 years as a sell- and buy-side energy equity research analyst at Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Investment Management, and Petrie Parkman & Co.  

He has since stayed active as an independent board member of ConocoPhillips, a senior advisor at Warburg Pincus, and an advisory board member at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy as well as ClearPath.

In March 2023, he “un-retired” to become a partner at Veriten, an energy research, strategy, and investment firm.

He also publishes a  substack called SuperSpiked about the messy transition era.

Rory Johnston

 Rory Johnston is a Toronto-based oil market researcher, the founder of Commodity Context, a lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, as well as a Fellow with both the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines.

He is a leading voice on oil market analysis, advising institutional investors, global policy makers, and corporate decision makers. Prior to founding Commodity Context, Rory led commodity economics research at Scotiabank where he set the bank’s energy and metals price forecasts, advised the bank’s executives and clients, and sat on the bank’s senior credit committee for commodity-exposed sectors.

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Guests: Mary Kissel, Leland Miller, Tony Nash

Mary Kissel

Mary is Executive Vice President and Senior Policy Advisor at Stephens Inc. In this role, she provides advice on geopolitical risk and macroeconomic trends to Stephens clients and the Stephens management team.

From October 2018 to January 2021, Ms. Kissel served as Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo. Prior to joining the State Department, she had a long and distinguished career on The Wall Street Journal editorial board, including stints as chief foreign policy writer in New York City and Asia-Pacific editorial page editor, based in Hong Kong. She began her career at Goldman Sachs.

Leland Miller

Leland is the co-founder and CEO of China Beige Book.

A noted authority on China’s economy and financial system, he is a frequent commentator on media outlets such as CNBC, Bloomberg TV, CNN, and FOX Business, and he has served as guest host of two of the financial world’s top morning news shows, CNBC Squawk Box and Bloomberg Surveillance.

Before co-founding China Beige Book in 2010, Leland was a capital markets attorney based out of New York and Hong Kong and worked on the deal team at a major investment bank. He holds a law degree from the University of Virginia, and a master’s degree in Chinese History from Oxford University

Leland is an elected member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, an elected life member of the Council on Foreign Relations

In February 2024, Leland was appointed Commissioner to the congressionally-mandated U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson

Tony Nash

Tony Nash is the CEO and Founder of Complete Intelligence. Previously, Tony built and led the global research business for The Economist and the Asia consulting business for IHS (now part of S&P). He is a frequent public speaker and a contributor to leading global media (BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, etc.) and has served as an advisor to government and think tanks in Tokyo, Singapore, Beijing, Washington D.C. and others.

Tony is an international advisory board member for Texas A&M University. He has a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University and a BA in Business Management from Texas A&M University.

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Guests this week

Eric Balchunas

 ERIC BALCHUNAS is a senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg, where he has over a decade of experience working with ETF data, designing new functions and writing ETF research for the Bloomberg terminal. He also writes articles, feature stories and blog posts on ETFs for Bloomberg.com and appears each week on Bloomberg TV and Radio to discuss ETFs. He is also the Author of The Bogle Effect: How John Bogle and Vanguard Turned Wall Street Inside Out and Saved Investors Trillions

Cem Karsan

 Cem Karsan is the Founder, CIO, and Managing Principal of Kai Volatility Advisors. He is responsible for portfolio construction, and firm-wide management, as well as its Head of Research and Risk Management. Mr. Karsan formed Kai Volatility Advisors after over two decades of experience building industry-leading derivatives businesses. At its peak, during the Great Financial Crises, Mr. Karsan’s proprietary market-making firm, Precision Capital Management, represented approximately 13% of the daily volume of S&P 500 Options. In 2010, Mr. Karsan divested his stake in Precision Capital to found his own investment management firm, now Kai Volatility Advisor

 Mike Green

 Michael is the chief strategist at Simplify Asset Management .

Michael joined Simplify in April 2021 after serving as Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager for Logica Capital Advisers, LLC.  Prior to Logica, Michael managed macro strategies at Thiel Macro, LLC, an investment firm that manages the personal capital of Peter Thiel. Prior to Thiel, Michael founded Ice Farm Capital, a discretionary global macro hedge fund seeded by Soros Fund Management. From 2006-2014, Michael founded and managed the New York office of Canyon Capital Advisors, a $23B multi-strategy hedge fund based in Los Angeles, CA, where he established their global macro strategies, managing in excess of $5B of exposure across equity, credit, FX, commodity and derivative markets.

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This Weeks Guests

Blake Morrow (@PipCzar)

Blake is the Co Founder of Forex Analytix. Blake spent most of his professional career as the Chief Currency Strategist for Wizetrade group for 15 years, and then the Senior Currency Strategist for Ally Financial after the acquisition of Tradeking which owned the Wizetrade Group. He is co-owner of a Dallas based brokerage firm and LiquidTrader Technologies and has been trading the markets for over 25yrs. His company, Forex Analytix, aims to educate and build a community of successful traders around the globe.

 Stelios Kontogoulas (@SteliosConto)

Stelios is the co-founder and Chief Macro Analyst for Forex Analytix. He has an IT background but switched to trading and was a market-maker for 10 years at Barclays and BoA/ML in London. His trading decisions are driven mostly by fundamentals, using technical analysis for entry/exit points.

Ryan Littlestone (@ForexFlowLive)

 Ryan is the Founder of Forex Flow Live, and has merged with the Forex Analytix team. Ryan has over 30 years experience starting his career in dealing LME warrants and trading in the pits at LIFFE as a local. He still trades his own account and is  He is the host of the popular "Flow Show" in European hours prepping traders on the day ahead in markets.

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Guests: Ayesha Tariq, Leonid Mironov, Robert Mullin

Ayesha Tariq

 Is the Co-Founder of MacroVisor, where she leverages her extensive experience and expertise in the financial markets to provide insightful and actionable macroeconomic research and cross-asset investment strategies to clients.

She is a CFA Charterholder with over 19 years of experience in analyzing companies and investments, providing corporate finance advisory, and structuring deals across various sectors and regions.

She started in Corporate Banking,  then moved to a private family business as the Head of Treasury and Investments, managing a portfolio a substantial portfolio in real estate, hospitality, and private and public equities.

Leonid Mironov

 Leonid is currently the head of materials at PACAT Capital Management (HK). He has over 17 years of experience in the global commodity and commodity equities space currently focusing on China and SE Asia. PACAT is a Hong Kong based long only and hedge fund manager investing in China and Asia with an exceptional track record going back to 2000.

Robert Mullin

 Robert Mullin is the Founder and General Partner of Marathon Resource Advisors LLC, and has been investing in the energy and natural resource-sector since 1994. Over the last three decades he has been a portfolio manager at the Franklin/Templeton Group, The Cypress Funds and Tocqueville Asset Management as well as running his own firms focused on the sector.  His thoughts on energy and natural resources have appeared in Bloomberg, Barrons, The Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications, and he has recently appeared in interviews with MOI Global, Prometheus Alts and Crux Investor as well as published several videos on the topics of the Energy Transition and the role of commodities in Geopolitics.

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Guests this week: Marin Katusa and Francis McDonald

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Guests this week:

Marin Katusa

 Marin is a Canadian investor, author, hedge fund manager and the founder and chairman of Katusa Research.  He is a contrarian and value investor specializing in the resource sector.

 Starting from scratch, Marin has built a large personal fortune... all through his ability to find great investments. During his career, he has sat on the board of a public company, arranged over $1 billion in financings, and written the New York Times bestselling book, The Colder War.

 Marin's insight has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg and CNBC. He has traveled over one million air miles visiting over 500 resource projects in more than 100 countries

Francis McDonald

CEO & DIRECTOR of LiFT power

 Li-FT is a mineral exploration company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, and development of lithium pegmatite projects located in Canada

Mr. MacDonald has 15 years of experience in the mining industry and is an exploration geologist. He co-founded Kenorland Minerals, a North America-focused company generating greenfield exploration opportunities across different commodities. Prior to 2016, Mr. MacDonald worked with Newmont Mining doing greenfield exploration in Nunavut, West Africa, and East Africa

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Guests: Lonnie Hendry and Daniel McNamara

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Guests this week:

Daniel McNamara

@danjmcnamara

Founder of Polpo Capital

 Polpo Capital was founded in 2021 by Daniel McNamara. Prior to founding Polpo, McNamara was a CMBS Portfolio Manager for 9 years at MP Securitized Credit Fund and launched a CMBX/Regional Mall Short Fund in 2020.

This experience led Dan to launch Polpo Capital. McNamara has been investing in the fixed income markets with a focus on structured products & CMBS for 20 years.

Polpo invests in CMBS based on a bottom-up approach with a heavy emphasis on CMBS underwriting, while weighing macroeconomic factors. The approach has allowed McNamara and the team to profit from opportunities on both the long and short side of the CMBS market.

McNamara graduated from Amherst College.

Lonnie Hendry

@Lonnie_CRE

Head of CRE & Trepp Advisory Services, Senior Vice President

 With a background spanning 20 years in the commercial real estate industry, he is charged with enhancing Trepp's client relationships across all business lines and product verticals. Lonnie is also the co-host of the weekly CRE show with more than 700K listens, The TreppWire Podcast.

Lonnie leads a global team of more than 20 product management and development professionals, working to assist clients with accomplishing their strategic goals through a variety of Trepp products, customized advisory services, and solutions.

 Mr. Hendry's professional experience includes conventional multifamily property management and development, commercial and residential leasing, brokerage, and appraisal.

Lonnie earned a Master of Science degree in Real Estate with a concentration in Sustainability from the University of Texas at Arlington where he also received a Graduate Certificate in Real Estate Development.

In addition to his responsibilities at Trepp, Mr. Hendry is an adjunct faculty member at Texas Tech University

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