The SIFMA Podcast

In this episode of our Wealth Management Leadership podcast series, SIFMA president & CEO Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr. sits down with Primerica’s PFS Investments CEO Estee Faranda for a discussion on reaching middle-income investors.

In this episode of our Wealth Management Leadership podcast series, SIFMA President & CEO Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr. is joined by Lisa Kidd Hunt, Executive Vice President, International Services, for Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., for a discussion on the rise of Generation Investor (Gen-I) and the findings from Schwab’s new investor survey.

In this episode of our Wealth Management Leadership podcast series, SIFMA President & CEO Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr. sits down with Carey Shuffman, Head of UBS’s Women’s Segment, for a discussion on the unique trends and approaches to serving women investors.For a transcript and more, visit https://www.sifma.org/resources/news/podcast-wealth-management-leadership-series-carey-shuffman/

In this first episode of our Wealth Management Leadership podcast series, SIFMA President & CEO Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr. sits down with Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company President & CEO Evamarie Schoenborn for a discussion about how the firm’s use of advisory teams has enhanced the advisor-client relationship.For a transcript and more, please visit https://www.sifma.org/resources/news/podcast-wealth-management-leadership-series-evamarie-schoenborn/.

In this episode of SIFMA's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Podcast Series, SIFMA's Amena Ross sits down with Cetera's Chantalle Couba to explore the journey to excellence in business, sharing insights on the courage and grit it takes to create a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.

The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) was initiated by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in the years following the 2007-2009 financial crisis with the aim of completely revising the approach of calculating risk-based capital requirements for trading activities.In this podcast, SIFMA’s Peter Ryan, Head of International Capital Markets and Prudential Policy, sits down with Joseph Seidel, Chief Operating Officer, to provide a high-level introduction to the FRTB, describing what it was designed to do and why we are hearing more about it now, and explain what is contained in the package of reforms.To view the transcript and more, visit https://www.sifma.org/resources/news/podcast-a-guide-to-frtb-and-why-its-important/.

International trade and investment in financial services is crucial to U.S. economic growth and job creation. In this podcast, SIFMA's Peter Matheson sits down with Citi's Kimberley Claman and EY's Douglas Bell to discuss why, in an increasingly competitive global economy, it is vital that financial services are integrated into the U.S. international economic strategy.For the white paper, transcript and more, please visit: https://www.sifma.org/resources/news/podcast-why-financial-services-vital-to-us-international-economic-strategy

Moderated by Rudy Rodriguez, Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion at Ameriprise and Chair of SIFMA’s Diversity & Inclusion Council, this far-reaching discussion with Penny Pennington of Edward Jones and Suzanne Shank of Siebert, Williams, Shank & Co. explores how these leaders model a culture of inclusion from the c-suite.For transcript and more, please visit: https://www.sifma.org/resources/news/podcast-modeling-a-culture-of-inclusion

In this edition of SIFMA's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) podcast series, SIFMA’s Amena Ross, Managing Director of Advocacy, sits down with Samuel A. Ramirez, Jr., President and CEO of Ramirez Asset Management and Senior Managing Director of Samuel A. Ramirez and Company, Inc. to understand how we can break down barriers and foster a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion.

It is abundantly clear that COVID-19 will have lasting impacts.In this podcast, SIFMA president and CEO Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr. sits down with Nasser Khodri, President of FIS Capital Markets, to discuss the evolution of operational readiness and how to rebuild for resilience as we chart a path forward.