Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Libby Cantrill, a managing director and head of public policy at PIMCO. In addition to coordinating the firm's response to policy issues and analyzing political events for the firm’s investment committee, she is a member of the firm’s Americas portfolio committee. She is also a founding member of PIMCO Parents, an initiative focused on supporting parents and families, and PIMCO Women, whose mission is to attract, retain and develop women. Pri...
May 31, 2018•55 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ed Yardeni, the president of Yardeni Research Inc., a provider of independent global investment strategy research. Dr. Yardeni previously served as chief investment strategist for Oak Associates; chief investment strategist and managing director of Prudential Equity Group; chief investment strategist for Deutsche Bank; and chief economist for C.J. Lawrence, Prudential Securities and E.F. Hutton. Yardeni recently published the book "Predicting...
May 23, 2018•1 hr 11 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Steve Murray, a managing partner at Revolution Growth who boasts more than 25 years of experience with technology businesses. He joined Revolution from SoftBank, where he worked with companies including Fitbit, BuzzFeed, E-Trade, Ziff Davis and Kabbage. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 18, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews James Chanos, founder and president of Kynikos Associates LP, the world's largest exclusive short-selling investment firm. Throughout his investment career, Chanos has identified and sold short the shares of numerous well-known corporate financial disasters; his celebrated short-sale of Enron shares was dubbed by Barron's as "the market call of the decade, if not the past 50 years." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 11, 2018•55 min
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Benedict Evans, a partner at Silicon Valley venture capital fund Andreessen Horowitz. A longtime mobile analyst, Evans has worked in the media and technology industries for 15 years. Evans has worked in strategy and business development for NBC Universal, Channel 4 and Orange, and previously worked as a sell-side equity analyst covering European telecoms. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 03, 2018•1 hr 11 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Patty McCord, author of the recently released "Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility." McCord served as chief talent officer of Netflix for 14 years and helped create the Netflix Culture Deck. A veteran of Sun Microsystems, Borland and Seagate Technologies, she has also worked with small startups. McCord currently coaches and advises a small group of companies and entrepreneurs on culture and leadership. See omnystudio.com/l...
Apr 26, 2018•1 hr 13 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Joel Greenblatt, co-chief investment officer and managing principal at Gotham Asset Management, LLC. He has also been a director of Pzena Investment Management Inc. since October 2007. An adjunct professor at Columbia Business School since 1996, he teaches classes on value and special situation investing. He is the author of “You Can Be A Stock Market Genius,” “The Little Book That Beats the Market,” “The Little Book That Still Beats the Market”...
Apr 20, 2018•1 hr 16 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Annie Duke, an expert in the science of decision-making and for decades one of the top poker players in the world. In 2004, she bested a field of 234 players to win her first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet. The same year, she triumphed in the $2 million winner-take-all, invitation-only WSOP Tournament of Champions. In 2010, she won the prestigious NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Prior to becoming a professional poker player, Ann...
Apr 12, 2018•1 hr 6 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Matthew Kadnar, a member of GMO’s asset allocation team. Prior to joining GMO in 2004, he was an investment specialist and consultant relations manager at Putnam Investments. Previously, he served as in-house counsel for LPL Financial Services and as a senior associate at Melick & Porter LLP. Kadnar has a B.S. from Boston College and a J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law. He is a CFA charterholder. See omnystudio.com/listener for ...
Apr 05, 2018•1 hr 25 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews the legendary tennis player Serena Williams. Williams has won 23 singles titles in women's Grand Slam tournaments -- just one behind the all-time leader, Margaret Court -- as well as 23 doubles titles and two mixed doubles titles. Along with her individual successes, Serena has teamed up with her sister Venus to win a series of doubles titles. She is also a four-time Olympic gold medalist. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Mar 29, 2018•40 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews David Enrich, finance editor at the New York Times and author of "The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History." (That scam, of course, was the Libor scandal.) Previously the financial enterprise editor at the Wall Street Journal, Enrich has received numerous journalism awards, including an award from the Overseas Press Club for his coverage of the Europea...
Mar 29, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Kathleen Fisher, head of wealth and investment strategies for AllianceBernstein L.P. In this role, she leads the team responsible for developing and communicating asset allocation advice and investment strategies for high-net-worth clients. Since 2013, she has also overseen research on investment planning and wealth transfer issues facing high-net-worth families as well as endowments and foundations. Kathy joined the firm in 2001 as a senior por...
Mar 23, 2018•50 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews James Donald, who serves as managing director and head of emerging markets at Lazard Asset Management, and serves as portfolio manager/analyst on the emerging markets equity team. Since joining Lazard in 1996, he has been instrumental in developing and coordinating its emerging-markets activities. Previously, he was a portfolio manager with Mercury Asset Management. He is also a board member of EMpower, a charity founded by investment profession...
Mar 19, 2018•1 hr 9 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews writer and media strategist Ryan Holiday. Holiday was 19 years old when he dropped out of college to apprentice under Robert Greene, author of “The 48 Laws of Power.” He went on to become the director of marketing for American Apparel. His creative agency, Brass Check, has advised clients like Google, TASER and Complex, as well as many prominent bestselling authors, including Neil Strauss, Tony Robbins and Tim Ferriss. He is the author of six bo...
Mar 08, 2018•1 hr 1 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews innovation expert Luis Perez-Breva, who directs MIT’s flagship hands-on innovation program -- the MIT Innovation Teams Program -- jointly operated by the schools of engineering and management. An entrepreneur and a Ph.D., he has taught innovation as a skill to professionals and students worldwide, co-led the Innovation Pillar of the MIT Skoltech Initiative, and collaborates with MIT’s innovation initiatives in Portugal, Singapore and the United ...
Feb 28, 2018•1 hr 14 min
Decrypted returns on March 6th with a brand new season. Here's a sneak peek of what's in store. We'll be releasing new episodes every Tuesday starting next week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 27, 2018•2 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Pimco’s Jerome Schneider, who is managing director of the Newport Beach office and head of short-term portfolio management and funding. Morningstar named him Fixed-Income Fund Manager of the Year (U.S.) for 2015. Prior to joining Pimco in 2008, Schneider was a senior managing director with Bear Stearns. He has 22 years of investment experience and holds an undergraduate degree in economics and international relations from the University of Penns...
Feb 22, 2018•1 hr 8 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Kathryn Minshew, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of The Muse. Kathryn has spoken at MIT and Harvard, appeared on The TODAY Show and CNN, and contributes on career and entrepreneurship to the Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review. She was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Media and Inc.’s 15 Women to Watch in Tech. Before founding The Muse, Kathryn worked on vaccines in Rwanda and Malawi with the Clinton Health Access Initiative ...
Feb 15, 2018•58 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Jack Devine, a CIA veteran and founding partner and president of The Arkin Group LLC, which specializes in international crisis management, strategic intelligence, investigative research and business problem solving. During his more than 30 years with the CIA, Devine was involved with sensitive projects in virtually all areas of intelligence, receiving the agency's Distinguished Intelligence Medal and several other awards. Devine is also a membe...
Feb 09, 2018•1 hr 22 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews the chief economist of KPMG LLP, Constance Hunter, who has more than 20 years of investment experience across all main asset classes, including seven as chief investment officer and seven as chief economist. She is a past board member of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE); a current board member of the NABE Foundation; and a member of the New York Association for Business Economics, the Money Marketeers, the Women’s Bond Club...
Feb 02, 2018•1 hr 5 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Thomas Gilovich, the Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. He has conducted research in social psychology, decision making and behavioral economics, and is best known for his research in heuristics and biases in the field of social psychology. He is the author of several books, including "How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life," and is the co-author (with Amos Tversky) on the ...
Jan 25, 2018•1 hr 14 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ed Mendel. He co-founded Ned Davis Research (NDR) and Davis, Mendel & Regenstein (DMR) in 1980, when he and his partner Ned Davis left J.C. Bradford & Company. The two firms are collectively known as the Ned Davis Research Group, and have built one of the largest stock and bond research followings on Wall Street. Ed has worked closely with Ned since 1971. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jan 19, 2018•1 hr 5 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Brooke Lampley, the vice chairman of the fine art division at Sotheby’s. Previously, Lampley was the senior vice president and head of the Impressionist and modern art department at Christie’s in New York. She graduated from Harvard with a bachelor’s degree in literature and art history and received a master’s in art history from Yale. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jan 11, 2018•1 hr 13 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Bruce Bartlett, an American historian who specializes in supply-side economics. Bartlett held senior policy roles in the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, and served on the staffs of Representatives Jack Kemp and Ron Paul. He is the author of “The Truth Matters: A Citizen's Guide to Separating Facts From Lies and Stopping Fake News in Its Tracks.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jan 03, 2018•1 hr 13 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Anil Dash, an entrepreneur, activist and writer recognized as one of the most prominent voices advocating for a more humane, inclusive and ethical technology industry. He is the CEO of Fog Creek Software,the independent New York City tech company that incubated landmark startups like Trello and Stack Overflow, and created Glitch, the friendly new community that helps anyone make the app of their dreams. Dash was an advisor to the Obama White Hou...
Dec 28, 2017•1 hr 22 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ric Edelman, founder and executive chairman of Edelman Financial Services LLC. Edelman also serves as a director of the Wolftrap Foundation for the Performing Arts. He was ranked the nation’s No. 1 independent financial adviser three times by Barron’s and named one of the country’s top 10 wealth advisers by Forbes magazine in 2016. In 2017, he was the recipient of IARFC’s Loren Dunton Memorial Award. His latest book is "The Truth About Your Futu...
Dec 22, 2017•1 hr 11 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Jeffrey Sherman, CFA, deputy chief investment officer at DoubleLine Capital LP. Sherman is also a member of DoubleLine’s executive management and fixed income asset allocation committees. He additionally serves as a portfolio manager for derivative-based and multi-asset strategies. Previously, he was a statistics and mathematics instructor at University of the Pacific and Florida State University. He also taught quantitative methods for Level I ...
Dec 15, 2017•1 hr 12 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ray Dalio, chairman and chief investment officer of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. Dalio has been a global macro investor for more than 45 years, having started Bridgewater out of a two-bedroom apartment in New York City in 1975. He’s also the author of the New York Times bestseller "Principles: Life and Work," and is known for the practical yet unconventional theory of economics he spells out in his video series "How th...
Dec 07, 2017•1 hr 12 min
Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Jeremy Schwartz, the director of research at WisdomTree. He is responsible for the equity index construction process and oversees research across the WisdomTree family. Prior to joining WisdomTree, Jeremy was head research assistant to Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel, and helped with the research and writing of "Stocks for the Long Run" and "The Future for Investors." He also hosts the Wharton Business Radio program “Behind the Markets” ...
Dec 01, 2017•1 hr 13 min
Money goes where it's treated best. That simple truth is a big reason why more and more money—trillions, in fact—flows into a powerful, low-cost tool that's quietly transformed investing in recent years. Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, let you invest in everything from the stock market to gold like never before. This podcast will demystify them—and delight you in the process. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 28, 2017•2 min
