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Masters in Business

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz has in-depth discussions with the people and ideas that shape markets, investing and business.

Episodes

Steven Klinsky on Building Businesses

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Steven Klinsky, founder, CEO and managing director of New Mountain Capital, which has over $37 billion in assets under management. Prior to founding New Mountain Capital in 1999, Klinsky was co-founder of the leveraged buyout group at Goldman Sachs, where he helped execute over $3 billion of pioneering transactions for Goldman and its clients. Klinsky also previously served as general partner at Forstmann Little, helping to oversee seven private eq...

Jan 20, 202358 min

Jennifer Grancio on Passive Index Funds and ETFs

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jennifer Grancio, the chief executive officer of impact investment group Engine No. 1. Grancio has more than 25 years of experience scaling businesses across financial services; prior to joining Engine No. 1, she founded an advisory firm where she worked closely with CEOs to accelerate growth. She also served as a founding member of BlackRock’s iShares business, where she helped drive the development of the global ETF industry and iShares’ leadersh...

Jan 13, 202351 min

John Mack on Life Lessons From Financial Crisis

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with the legendary John Mack, former chief executive officer and chairman of the board at Morgan Stanley. His memoir of his life and 34-year tenure at Morgan Stanley — “Up Close and All In: Life Lessons From a Wall Street Warrior” — was published in October. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 06, 20231 hr 3 min

Charlie Ellis on the Rules of Investing

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with investing legend Charlie Ellis, who is the founder and former managing partner of Greenwich Associates. In addition to advising institutional investors, foundations and government organizations in more than 130 markets, Ellis has taught courses at Yale and Harvard and has written several books, including “Winning the Loser’s Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing,” which is now in its eighth edition. See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

Dec 23, 20221 hr 4 min

Robert Koenigsberger on Emerging Markets

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Robert Koenigsberger, the managing partner and chief investment officer of Gramercy. A dedicated emerging markets investment manager, Gramercy — which Koenigsberger founded in 1998 — now has more than $5 billion dollars in assets under management. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 16, 20221 hr 2 min

Kathleen McCarthy on Real Estate Investments

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Kathleen McCarthy, the global co-head of Blackstone Real Estate. The largest owner of commercial real estate globally, Blackstone Real Estate has a $565 billion portfolio and $319 billion in investor capital under management. McCarthy previously served as Blackstone Real Estate's global chief operating officer; before joining Blackstone in 2010, she worked at Goldman Sachs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Dec 09, 20221 hr 20 min

Luis Berruga on ETF Investments

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Luis Berruga, the chief executive officer at Global X ETFs. Before joining Global X, which has $42 billion in assets under management, Berruga was an investment banker at Jefferies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dec 02, 20221 hr 8 min

Boaz Weinstein on Investors' Unknown Risk

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Boaz Weinstein, the chief investment officer of Saba Capital Management LP, which Weinstein founded in 2009 as a lift-out of Saba Principal Strategies. Prior to founding Saba, Boaz Weinstein was co-head of global credit trading at Deutsche Bank, where he oversaw approximately 650 professionals. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nov 24, 202232 min

Marcus Shaw on Diversity in Wall Street and Finance

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Marcus Shaw, the chief executive officer and president of of AltFinance, a $90 million initiative to encourage students at historically Black colleges and universities to pursue careers in the alternative investment industry. Prior to joining AltFinance, Shaw founded Montgomery TechLab, an organization to support inclusive economic growth in Montgomery, Alabama, and was CEO of The Company Lab (CO.LAB) in Chattanooga, Tennessee; he has also spent mo...

Nov 18, 20221 hr 2 min

Dave Nadig on Exchange-Traded Funds

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with ETF industry pioneer Dave Nadig, who currently serves as financial futurist at the data, analytics and thought-leadership firm VettaFi. Nadig, who has more than 25 years of experience in the field — including as managing editor at ETF.com — co-authored a definitive book on ETFs, “A Comprehensive Guide To Exchange-Traded Funds,” for the CFA Institute. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Nov 11, 20221 hr 27 min

Edward Chancellor on the Real Story of Interest

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Edward Chancellor, who is a well-known financial historian, author, journalist and investment strategist. His most recent book, "The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest," has been longlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year. He is also the author of the New York Times notable book "Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation," which has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and is a recipient of the George Polk...

Nov 04, 20221 hr 2 min

Siegel and Schwartz on Stocks for the Long Run

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with acclaimed Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel and Jeremy Schwartz, who is global chief investment officer at WisdomTree. Prior to joining WisdomTree, Schwartz was Siegel's head research assistant and helped with the research and writing of his classic book "Stocks for the Long Run," as well as "The Future for Investors." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 28, 20221 hr 19 min

Marta Norton on Direct Indexing and Investments

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Marta Norton, CFA, who is an investment manager with Morningstar Investment Management. Norton’s responsibilities include equity, alternative and fixed income research, asset allocation and portfolio management. Before joining Morningstar in 2005, Norton was an economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics and a research analyst at LECG LLC.Atika Valbrun See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Oct 21, 202254 min

Thomas Rampulla on Vanguard's Mission

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Thomas Rampulla, managing director of Vanguard's Financial Advisor Services division. which provides investments, services, education and research to more than 1,000 financial advisory firms representing more than $3 trillion in assets. Rampulla has held a variety of management positions at Vanguard since he joined in 1988. He holds a bachelor's degree from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from Drexel University. He is al...

Oct 14, 202255 min

Michael Levy on Real Estate Finance

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Michael Levy, who is chief executive officer at the real estate investment and development firm Crow Holdings. Previously, he worked in real estate finance and investment management at Morgan Stanley. Levy is currently a member of the Real Estate Roundtable, the Advisory Board at the Institute for Real Estate Operating Companies, and the Policy Advisory Board at the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of California a...

Oct 07, 20221 hr 14 min

David McRaney on the Science Behind Persuasion

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with science journalist David McRaney, who investigates the psychology of reasoning, decision-making and judgment on his blog " You Are Not So Smart ." The blog, which he launched in 2009, spawned a bestselling book , now available in 17 languages, as well as a podcast . McRaney's most recent book, "How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion," came out this year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Sep 30, 20221 hr 33 min

Steve Case on Startup Entrepreneurship

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with entrepreneur and investor Steve Case, who came to prominence as a co-founder of America Online and has spent the last 15 years with Washington-based investment firm Revolution. In addition to serving as chairman and chief executive officer at Revolution, Case is a partner at Revolution Growth, which has invested nearly $1 billion in growth-stage companies. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling book “The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur...

Sep 23, 20221 hr 13 min

Albert Wenger on Global Venture Capital Firms

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Albert Wenger, who is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Before joining USV, Wenger was the president of del.icio.us as well as an angel investor; he also founded or co-founded several companies. He holds a Ph.D. in information technology from MIT. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 16, 202256 min

Kristen Bitterly Michell on Wealth Management

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Kristen Bitterly Michell, who is Head of North American Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which manages $800 billion in client assets. Prior to joining Citi, she led structured product sales to Latin American investors at Credit Suisse and provided structured derivative solutions to private investor clients at JPMorgan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 09, 20221 hr 22 min

Lynn Martin on Market Models and Meme Stock Trends

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Lynn Martin, who is the 68th president of NYSE Group. NYSE Group includes the New York Stock Exchange — the world’s largest stock exchange, with 2,400 listed companies and a combined market capitalization of $36 trillion — as well as four fully electronic equity markets and two options exchanges. NYSE is part of the Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) and Martin is also chair of fixed income and data services at ICE, which includes ICE Bonds exec...

Sep 02, 202247 min

Eric Balchunas on the Vanguard Effect

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Eric Balchunas, a senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence who has more than a decade of experience working with ETF data, designing new functions and writing ETF research for the Bloomberg Terminal. Balchunas also contributes articles, feature stories and blog posts on ETFs for Bloomberg.com and appears each week on Bloomberg TV and Bloomberg Radio to discuss ETFs. His latest book is "The Bogle Effect: How John Bogle and Vanguard Turned Wall S...

Aug 26, 20221 hr 39 min

Bill Browder on High Finance, Murder and Justice (Podcast)

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Bill Browder, who is head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign and author of the recently released “Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath.” The founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, which was the investment adviser to the largest foreign investment fund in Russia until 2005, Browder is also the author of “Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man’s Fight for J...

Aug 19, 20221 hr 19 min

Kenneth Tropin on Quantitative Hedge Fund Strategies

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Kenneth G. Tropin, who is the chairman and the founder of Graham Capital Management, a multi-strategy quantitative hedge fund with $18 billion in assets under management. Prior to founding GCM in 1994, Tropin was president and chief executive officer of hedge fund John W. Henry & Company, where he worked with such legendary traders as John Henry and Paul Tudor Jones. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Aug 12, 202256 min

Anat Admati on Banking Regulations and Techlash

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Anat Admati, a professor of finance and economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In addition to being a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and a director at the Corporations and Society Initiative, Admati is co-author of "The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong With Banking and What to Do About It." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

Aug 05, 20221 hr 27 min

Hannah Elliott on Automotive Industry Trends

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Bloomberg Businessweek staff writer Hannah Elliott, who reports on the automotive industry with a special focus on hyper-cars, motorcycles, and electric and luxury vehicles. She lives in Los Angeles, where car culture is enjoying a renaissance. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 29, 20221 hr 28 min

Graham Weaver on Private Equity

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Graham Weaver, who is the founder and CEO of Alpine Investors, a PeopleFirst private equity firm in San Francisco which invests in software and services. Graham has been in private equity for over 20 years, having started Alpine in his dorm room at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 22, 202254 min

Antti Ilmanen on Expected Returns

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Antti Ilmanen, who is the principal and global co-head of the portfolio solutions group at AQR Capital Management. His most recent book, "Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least," was published in April. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 15, 202259 min

Spencer Jakab on the Death of Meme Stocks

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with the Wall Street Journal’s Spencer Jakab, author of “The Revolution That Wasn’t: GameStop, Reddit and the Fleecing of Small Investors.” Jakab, who edits the Journal’s Heard on the Street column, also wrote “Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 08, 20221 hr 27 min

Perth Tolle on ETF Freedom Metrics

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 Wealt...

Jul 01, 20221 hr 11 min

Jonathan Miller on Urban Real Estate

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio...

Jun 24, 20221 hr 20 min
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