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Olaf Danckwerts has spent many years working on ship finance deals for some of the biggest banks and financial institutions in the shipping finance and restructuring fields. In our conversation we cover the topic such as: introduction the ship finance field, what characteristics does ship finance as an asset class have and how deals typically look like in that space... Oh and also pirates.

Topics we cover in the interview:

• Introduction to ship finance and the shipping industry
• How does ship finance compare to real estate and other asset classes
• Who are the major players involved in ship financing
• How does a deal process typically look like in ship financing
• Regulations in the shipping industry
• How does the industry deal with issues like isuch as piracy

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Stefan Schuetze & Juan Rodriguez are both part of the board of directors of Finlab AG, one of the first and one of the largest German company builders and investors in the financial services technology sector. Both Stefan and Juan have extensive experience in working in the Venture Capital, Fintech and Startups space. In the conversation we take a deep dive into the topic ranging from venture capital and fintech to blockchain and ICOs.

Some of the topics we discuss in the interview include:

• How to become a managing director at a VC Fund?
• How top VCs choose their projects?
• What is exciting for a VC in the Fintech/Blockchain space now
• How being a publicly listed company affect decision making of a company
• How to grow a Fintech Company
• What do VCs see in Blockchain technology
• 100 million USD fund to invest in Blockchain EOS projects
• Will ICOs displace Venture Capital?
• What experience or skills do you need to get into fintech / VC space
• What you should never say when pitching a company to a VC

And many more.

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Jane Coffey is an experienced financial professional and an executive coach. She has extensive experience in asset management having been the head of equities and executive director as well as an investment professional across various well respected institutions. She is also heavily involved with the CFA institute in the UK.

In our conversation with Jane we discussed various aspects of financial careers, asset management and behavioural finance. Here are a few topics we have discussed:

• How to get into investment banking / asset management
• How ESG affects the investment environment
• How to find a finance career that will fit you
• Investment banking vs asset management
• How to get early financial experience
• How to build out a network in the financial world
• How to make the next step in your financial career properly
• What differentiates a good fund manager from a great fund manager?
• Which education is right for you in the asset management space
• How has the asset management industry changed over the last 30 years

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Prof. Oliver Gottschalg is one of the leading researchers in private equity space. He is a an associate professor at HEC Paris but also among other things he is a co-founder and head of research at Peracs, a firm providing analytics and research on private equity investments.

In our conversation with Prof Gottschalg we discussed various aspects of private equity as an asset class, performance measurements in the space as well as various other related topics. Here are a few items we have touched on:

• How to measure performance of private equity funds
• How does bridging affect private equity fund performance
• How to start a career in private equity
• How to clean up private equity performance data?
• Performance persistence in private equity
• Do big private equity funds outperform smaller private equity funds?
• What are some public market equivalents of private equity
• Co-investment opportunities in private equity
• Is performance of private equity funds based on value created?
• How value is created in private equity
• What makes a good GP and LP

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Ralf Heim is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Fincite, a digital wealth management fintech and one of the fastest growing startups in Germany currently employing over 60 people. He has a developer background. He has worked for two startups. He started developing database mostly for logistics companies as a freelancer beginning with 16. He very early joined a business intelligence startup and quickly rose in ranks to head the business development and joining the extended management board. After the company called Cundus, was sold, he and his two co-founders started Fincite and managed to develop it into one of the fastest growing startups in Germany. Fincite currently works with large corporates and banks across Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland and Belgium.

In our conversation with Ralf we discussed various aspects of fintechs, roboadvisors and entrepreneurship. Here are a few topics we have discussed:

• How is it to work on projects and implement solutions for large banks and financial institutions
• How does the process of implementation of financial systems for clients look like
• Artificial intelligence in finance and how it ties into delivering new financial solutions
• What do robo-advisors actually do and how are they disrupting the traditional players
• How do the large banks work with fintechs and what do they do to innovate
• How the experience of working with central banks is different from working with private banks
• How does the current fintech environment look like and are we in a fintech bubble
• The Fincite venture arm and how to create new ventures in the fintech space

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Carl Richards has a financial wealth management background and has been working for some of the largest financial institutions out there in various advisory roles. He is best known for being a creator of the Sketch Guy column, appearing weekly in the New York Times since 2010. Carl has also featured on Marketplace Money, Oprah.com and Forbes.com. In addition, Carl has become a frequent keynote speaker at financial planning conferences and visual learning events around the world.Through his simple sketches, Carl makes complex financial concepts easy to understand. His sketches also serve as the foundation for his two books, The One-Page Financial Plan: A Simple Way to Be Smart About Your Money and The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money.

In our conversation with Carl we discussed various aspects of behavioural finance and wealth management. Here are a few topics we have discussed:

• What problems are plaguing the wealth management industry
• How carl advised clients in wealth management
• How to explain difficult finance concepts in a simple way
• Mutual funds vs individual investing
• Behavioural finance and how people typically react to various market situations
• Why are people so bad at picking their investments
• The raise of Robo-advisors and how they disrupt the financial advisors market.
• What would Carl advise to people looking to get into the wealth management field

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Jack Schwager is a recognized industry expert in futures and hedge funds and the author of a number of widely acclaimed financial books including the Market Wizards series. Mr. Schwager is one of the founders of Fund Seeder. Mr. Schwager was a partner in the Fortune Group (2001-2010), a London-based hedge fund advisory firm. His prior experience also includes 22 years as Director of Futures research for some of Wall Street's leading firms, most recently Prudential Securities.

Guess who is back!

We are so excited to bring to you the second season of The Wall Street Lab podcast! To kick off the season we are bringing you the interview with probably one of the most knowledgable people in trading and futures Jack Schwager. Through dozens of interviews and years of work experience in trading Mr. Schwager is probably the best person to tell us about what makes a great trader. We have learned a lot from his experience and we hope you will as well. Other topics we have discussed in our conversation include

• What traits do the best traders and investment managers have in common
• Fundamental vs technical analysis and how it changed with technology
• What changed in the futures markets over the last 30 years
• What are the arguments for market efficiency not working
• What makes traders lose money
• What motivates the top traders
• What are the worst pieces of advice given about trading

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After a long summer break The Wall Street Lab Podcast is back! Check out the new trailer. We are kicking off the season 2 on February 15th! We are looking forward to talking to you soon! Find more information at: www.TheWallStreetLab.com

That's it guys – The Wall Street Lab will be taking a summer break and will be back in a few months with the next season.

"Whoa, what? Why?", I hear you say.

Do you want good reasons, or the true reasons?

read all about it in the blogpost below: http://www.thewallstreetlab.com/update-end-of-season-i/

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Dan Kemp is the Chief Investment Officer for the EMEA region at Morningstar Investment Management. Dan has a very interesting background. For instance, he holds a BA in Theology at Kings College in London - we spend quite a bit of time talking about how his non-business background has helped him in his investment career. Prior to joining Morningstar Investment Management, he was a Founder and Partner at Albemarle Street Partners, an investment advisory firm that assists advisors in client risk profiling, fund research, portfolio construction and asset allocation. Prior to that, he was a Multi-Asset Fund of Funds manager at Saltus Partners.

We touch on a wide range of topics such as how to prevent buying at a high and selling at a low, the importance of having an investment process in place that allows for other team members to poke holes at your ideas, while at the same time avoiding Groupthink. Dan was also kind enough to share some of his productivity tricks, what he looks for when hiring a candidate for a job, his favorite behavioral finance books, and much more.

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For the full show notes go to: http://www.thewallstreetlab.com/14-dan-kemp-using-behavioral-finance-to-make-better-investment-decisions