Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Established over 800 years ago in 1209, Cambridge University is one of the oldest surviving Universities in the world and has spawned more Nobel Prizes than any other institution. In today’s conversation we welcome Tilly Franklin their Chief Investment Officer, whose education includes Cambridge, Harvard and LBS. She discusses her academic experiences before her journey through McKinsey, Virgin, Apax and Alta prior to a...
Feb 09, 2021•39 min•Ep. 27
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn It’s difficult enough to train to become a Doctor and then practice in some emerging countries with fragile health systems like Papua New Guinea. But then to switch tack completely, give all that up, win a place at Harvard Business School and join Goldman Sachs in asset management before going on to launch your own fund in emerging markets, may be considered brilliance or heresy, particularly when you come from Germany,...
Feb 08, 2021•48 min
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Helen Watson describes her untypical journey into finance. After attending multiple schools and then being advised to go to secretarial college, Helen finds a job in finance in Gibraltar before moving and being hired by Morgan Stanley in London. From there, starting as a sales assistant, she overcomes initial resistance to win a place on the Morgan Stanley graduate training programme and becomes a broker. She describes ...
Feb 08, 2021•31 min
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Today’s episode comes from Madrid - Europe’s 3rd biggest city and the highest European capital, and with a different tack for the Money Maze Podcast we are going to explore the changing landscape of education and it ability to better arm you to get ahead in the evolving commercial world. We welcome Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño, President of IE University which is increasingly recognised both for its campus-based, and on-l...
Jan 28, 2021•33 min•Ep. 26
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Maarten Slendebroek is currently Chairman of Robeco’s Supervisory Board, the Dutch investment powerhouse, former CEO of Jupiter PLC , and prior to that, member of Blackrock’s global operating committee. Maarten describes his Dutch/Swedish upbringing, studying Law at the University of Leiden, and from there to finance, beginning as an equity analyst at the emergence of individual European company research. He describes h...
Jan 21, 2021•44 min•Ep. 25
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Tony Dalwood studied Economics and Accounting at Bristol University and then Management and Business at Cambridge, where he took his post graduate degree and won a Blue playing Rugby. He then played Rugby for Saracens and Rosslyn Park, before his journey into Asset Management. He talks of his career, beginning as a value-orientated equity manager, and his transition into the world of private equity, at that stage, an em...
Jan 21, 2021•32 min
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Sir Ronald Cohen’s extraordinary story begins in Egypt in 1956 where the Suez crisis has taken place and Egyptian Nationalism is on the rise, forcing his family to leave everything and flee to England, not even speaking the language. Armed only with ambition and hope and hard work, he gets into grammar school, wins a scholarship to Oxford, then to Harvard Business school and moves on to build one of the largest venture ...
Jan 21, 2021•38 min
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Today we have the intriguing prospect of our youngest guest so far on the Money Maze Podcast, allied to one of the world’s oldest academic institutions, Oxford University. Jack Edmondson, nominated in 2019 as Institutional Investor Magazine’s 3rd most wanted Allocator in the world, is a CFA Charter holder, holds an MBA with distinction from the Saïd Business School at Oxford and a first-class degree in history from Durh...
Jan 07, 2021•51 min•Ep. 24
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn In this episode we travel to Shanghai to talk to Chingxiao (best known as Ching) about equity investing in China. She starts by giving us a sense of life currently living in Shanghai and reflects on how the Chinese authorities have handled the crisis. She then describes her upbringing and education before explaining her immersion into the world of finance with Barings. The conversation analyses the market capitalisation...
Dec 17, 2020•37 min•Ep. 23
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn In this second episode with Niall Ferguson, the conversation is an honest assessment of why he believes China and its political philosophy and approach are alien to Western values, and represent a clear and present danger. Niall explains how much has changed since Henry Kissinger’s historic mission to China in 1971, why belatedly Western Governments are increasingly recognising this but why the US remains a magnet for h...
Dec 08, 2020•37 min•Ep. 22
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn We are thrilled in this episode, to share a discussion with Niall Ferguson, one the world’s greatest historians, authors and commentators. Niall is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, as well as current or past lecturer at Harvard, Oxford, LSE and visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. In this first of two podcasts, this conversation gives the listener an opportunity to hear how ...
Dec 03, 2020•32 min•Ep. 21
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Franklin D Roosevelt wrote “Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, and managed with reasonable care it is about the safest investment in the world “. It’s a good time to discuss the topic of real estate, which is central to so many of us. Whether it’s your home, commercial property, farms and estates, whether it’s to live in or to invest in, whether in the UK or ar...
Nov 19, 2020•42 min•Ep. 20
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn When your mother escapes from N Korea, risking incarceration or possible execution if caught, to pursue a better life and harbouring a remote dream that she might eventually make it to the USA, which becomes reality, it may not be surprising that her daughter, is also motivated to achieve great things. But it takes particular resolve to attend Harvard Business School, become the WSJ’s foreign correspondent and bureau ch...
Nov 10, 2020•40 min•Ep. 19
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Today, with great thanks to Rothschild and Co for allowing us to publish this conversation, we are delighted to have the opportunity to talk to Anthony Scaramucci. Anthony needs little introduction, but he is an entrepreneur, investor and political consultant. Having studied at Harvard Law School, he worked at Goldman Sachs, set up Oscar Capital Management, subsequently sold it and later established Skybridge Capital Ma...
Oct 30, 2020•40 min•Ep. 18
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Today is a first for us, to welcome both a Grande Chancellerie de la legion d’honneur (the highest French decoration to reward the most deserving citizens) and a KBE (Knight of the British Empire, 2015). Sir Xavier Rolet was listed in Harvard’s 2017 Business Review as one of the best 100 CEOs in the world, recorded in Debrett’s as one of the most influential people in finance, was a former Member of PM Cameron’s busines...
Oct 22, 2020•55 min•Ep. 17
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Today’s guest is a Russian-born, Australian-educated management consultant working at the epicentre of the data-driven revolution which is shaking the established corporate and investment orders. Our guests on this show manage businesses and money, and they need to understand where their industry is moving, its likely trajectory and the skills that will be required. In essence, how they should adapt, for as John F Kenne...
Oct 08, 2020•38 min•Ep. 16
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Many ambitious people aspire to build a truly successful business, and inevitably, only some succeed. Yet to start with a small buy-out which nearly 40 years later has evolved into one of the UK's largest Asset Management groups with over £500 billion in assets, employing 10,00 people and with offices in 50 cities, as well as being a member of the FTSE 100, is quite an achievement. So in this podcast, to discuss the ass...
Sep 29, 2020•31 min•Ep. 15
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Sir Ronald Cohen’s extraordinary story begins in Egypt in 1956 where the Suez crisis has taken place and Egyptian Nationalism is on the rise, forcing his family to leave everything and flee to England, not even speaking the language. Armed only with ambition and hope and hard work, he gets into grammar school, wins a scholarship to Oxford, then to Harvard Business school and moves on to build one of the largest venture ...
Sep 15, 2020•38 min•Ep. 14
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn It’s difficult enough to train to become a Doctor and then practice in some emerging countries with fragile health systems like Papua New Guinea. But then to switch tack completely, give all that up, win a place at Harvard Business School and join Goldman Sachs in asset management before going on to launch your own fund in emerging markets, may be considered brilliance or heresy, particularly when you come from Germany,...
Sep 03, 2020•48 min•Ep. 13
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn In a slightly different conversation for the MoneyMaze Podcast, Anthony St John shares his fascinating journey and set of insights. He is a Parliamentarian, Non-Executive Chairman of Yellow Cake Plc the Uranium holding Company, Chairman of Strand Hanson, an independent Advisory boutique with a strong African orientation, and Chairman of IDH, the health care provider in the Middle East and Africa. At the same time, he is...
Aug 25, 2020•33 min•Ep. 12
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Our guest today is Morgan Stanley’s former chief global strategist and for the last 25 years head of Independent Strategy, a research group who advise Governments, Sovereign Wealth Funds and influential financial institutions about the global investment and geopolitical outlook. His views have long been sought after, are often contrarian but remain typically revered. David’s journey starts with his early years in Irelan...
Aug 13, 2020•38 min•Ep. 11
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn In this Money Maze Podcast edition, we travel north east from the UK, beyond Norwich, and further than Hamburg, to a country of less than 6mm people, a country which has the oldest national flag, dating from 1219, and is consistently reported as having the world’s happiest people. Home to Lego and with some of the nicest people in the world, it’s Denmark of course. The guest on this podcast is a veritable Viking of the ...
Aug 04, 2020•36 min•Ep. 10
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Goldfinger, Goldeneye, the Man with the Golden gun; James Bond escapism or a guidepost to financial survival? From the Phoenicians to today where China appears to have accumulated the largest Gold reserves of any Government in the world, it may be one of the few defences against the money printing and currency debasement of Governments, yet it continues to divide opinion. To help unravel this, the MoneyMaze Podcast is d...
Jul 23, 2020•32 min•Ep. 9
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Helen Watson describes her untypical journey into finance. After attending multiple schools and then being advised to go to secretarial college, Helen finds a job in finance in Gibraltar before moving and being hired by Morgan Stanley in London. From there, starting as a sales assistant, she overcomes initial resistance to win a place on the Morgan Stanley graduate training programme and becomes a broker. She describes ...
Jul 14, 2020•31 min•Ep. 8
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn As a FTSE 100 company, managing over £100 billion for 750,000 clients, St James Place (SJP) has been a great financial success story and today is the UK’s largest wealth manager. Chris starts by describing his journey, studying economics at Hull University, learning key early life lessons working first at Cazenove then Fidelity, before taking up the position as Chief Investment Officer for St James Place. During that pe...
Jul 02, 2020•43 min•Ep. 7
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Dave Yarrow is considered one of the world’s greatest photographers. 3 former US presidents have his masterpieces adorning their walls, along with a string of actors and sports personalities and he oversees a multi million dollar fine-art business. He has helped raise $8 million for charity, and his energy and passion for his work mean that up to the outbreak of coronavirus, he had not spent 18 Days in the same place in...
Jun 18, 2020•45 min•Ep. 6
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Mark Mobius, who has been referred to as the Godfather of Emerging Markets , was named as one of the 50 Most Influential People in 2011. Author of several books, he received the L ife Time Achievement Award in Asset Management, started the Templeton Emerging Markets Fund which grew to $40 billion, and in 2018 opened Mobius Capital Partners. He describes being born in New York to German and Puerto Rico parents, his degre...
Jun 09, 2020•41 min•Ep. 5
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Tony Dalwood studied Economics and Accounting at Bristol University and then Management and Business at Cambridge, where he took his post graduate degree and won a Blue playing Rugby. He then played Rugby for Saracens and Rosslyn Park, before his journey into Asset Management. He talks of his career, beginning as a value-orientated equity manager, and his transition into the world of private equity, at that stage, an em...
May 28, 2020•32 min•Ep. 4
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Our conversation begins with a glimpse of Sarah’s inspiring journey from finance, to journalism and now to the critical world of impact investing. Sarah talks about the 18 years spent at the FT where she ran the FT’s corporate coverage during the financial crisis and her ascent to become the FT’s business editor. She describes her motivation and the challenges involved with her new role as CEO of the Impact Investing In...
May 14, 2020•28 min•Ep. 3
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Nick Finegold describes his journey through the world of finance, first in equity sales, then as the founder of his own brokerage business, Execution Ltd. He talks about building the business into a firm with revenues of $100 million and selling it 10 years later, becoming Chairman of Espirito Santo Investment Bank, in London. He then explains the decision to establish the Curation Corporation, 8 years ago, where he rem...
Apr 21, 2020•37 min•Ep. 2
