As the Premier League football season gets underway more than nine million people around the world will be picking their own teams as part of the $22 billion fantasy football industry. But who are the best players to pick and what makes a successful fantasy football manager? Az Phillips, an official pundit for the Barclays Fantasy Premier League (FPL), joins the pod to reveal the best players to pick, the most successful strategies, the common mistakes people make, and why he won't be buying Erl...
Aug 22, 2022•39 min•Ep. 54
We’re back from a short holiday and we’re also back with our guest Jake Taylor. You may know Jake as one of the hosts of the podcast Value: After Hours or as the CEO of Farnam Street Investments. In this episode he gives an update on Journalytic the decision making software he made reference to in his last appearance on the Value Perspective and discusses how steadying the returns from the S&P 500 over the past decade has given him a new framework to think about the future. It wouldn’t be a ...
Aug 07, 2022•58 min•Ep. 53
This week we revisit our original podcast with Jake Taylor in anticipation of his upcoming second appearance on the Value Perspective. Jake is a value investor, CEO of Farnam Street Investments and author of The Rebel Allocator. He also contributes to various web series and podcasts including Five Good Questions, The Hikecast, and Value: After Hours, which he co hosts with investors Tobias Carlisle and Bill Brewster. In a past life, Jake worked as a power system operator running the grid for the...
Jul 25, 2022•49 min•Ep. 52
Simon Evan-Cook joins us this week for the 50th episode of the Value Perspective podcast to discuss the lessons that he has learnt on his journey to becoming a better investor that you can apply in everyday life to help solve problems. Simon is a successful multi-asset, fund-of-funds manager with over 25 years’ experience in financial services. He currently works for Downing Fund Managers, having built his reputation at Fidelity, Rothschild Asset Management, Gartmore and Premier Asset Management...
Jul 11, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 51
Carson Block, founder of Muddy Waters Research, joins us this week on the Value Perspective podcast to discuss the contentious topic of short selling. Short selling is an investment or trading strategy that speculates on the decline in a stock or other security’s price. Carson takes an activist approach to short selling that's founded on exposing fraudulent practices in publicly traded companies. This challenges the view that short selling, by its nature, is an exploitative practice. We talk to ...
Jun 27, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 50
Nick Hodler joins us this week on the Value Perspective podcast as part of our turn-around Mini Series. Nick is the President and CEO of Arc, the world's largest manufacturer of glass tableware. We are excited to have Nick on the pod as Arc has been in the midst of a positive turnaround story under his helm. As value investors these are exactly the type of situations that interest us. Nick discusses how he has approached the turnaround situation from his background as a management consultant and...
Jun 13, 2022•42 min•Ep. 49
Dr Milo Jones joins us this week on The Value Perspective. Currently a Visiting Fellow at the Changing Character of War Centre, Pembroke College, Oxford, a Visiting Professor at IE in Madrid, and an adjunct professor at Imperial College Business School, London. Before all this, he also served as a US Marine, a consultant, and an archaeologist. Milo focused his PHD dissertation on decision making in intelligence communities which lead to his book, Constructing Cassandra: Reframing Intelligence Fa...
May 30, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 47
Welcome to a master class with 10K Diver. 10k runs an anonymous Twitter account which you may be familiar if you're a fan of financial Twitter like us. Over the past two years he's sky rocketed in popularity reaching over 200,000 followers who tune in for his incredible threads which explain complex decision making and financial theories in engaging and digestible ways. NEW EPISODES: We release main series episodes every two weeks on Mondays. You can subscribe via Podbean or use this feed URL ( ...
May 16, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 46
This week we have Meredith Angwin on the podcast. She was a chemist that worked on projects that lowered pollution and increased reliability on the weakening electric grid. She is also a massive advocate for nuclear energy and more recently she's the author of Shorting the Grid: the Hidden Fragility of our Electric Grid . Andrew and Juan sit down with Meredith to discuss the role nuclear has in the modern energy transition discussion and its relation with solar, wind, hydro, and fossil-based ene...
May 03, 2022•54 min•Season 2Ep. 45
We're delighted to have Charlotte Thorne as our guest this week. Charlotte is a founding partner at Capital Generation Partners, an asset manager that specialises in ultra high net worth individuals and family offices after starting her career at HM Treasury. What captured us about CapGen is the 'decision factory' Charlotte spearheaded which allows them to best service their clients.She sat down with Juan and Andy to discuss family offices - what are they, what do they achieve, what unique needs...
Apr 19, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 44
We're a bit starstruck this week to have Meb Faber of the Meb Faber Show on the Value Perspective this week. Meb is a fantastic podcaster, author, and the CIO of Cambria Investment Management in LA. In this episode, he discusses valuations in the US as a risk and why they should allocate internationally (especially in emerging markets), value investor Seth Klarman and the use of cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio or CAPE. Also, completely unprompted, Meb mentioned our Global Investor St...
Apr 04, 2022•53 min•Season 2Ep. 43
Tim Davies joins us on the pod this week. Tim spent 20 years flying with the Royal Navy and RAF as a fast jet pilot and instructor. Emily and Juan chat with Tim about the performance psychology surrounding fast jet pilots, the importance of failure when training and what biases instructors should be aware of as they teach the next generation of decision makers. You can find Tim on Twitter @timdavies_uk NEW EPISODES: We release main series episodes every two weeks on Mondays. You can subscribe vi...
Mar 21, 2022•55 min•Season 2Ep. 42
This is a special one-off episode to address the implications that the war in Ukraine has had on energy markets. We've invited back Arjun Murti, a private equity adviser and board member at ConocoPhilips to join us and discuss the effects the ban on Russian oil and gas have had on a global scale, what energy security means in the wider energy transition movement, and how different supplies of energy must react to the war. NEW EPISODES: We release main series episodes every two weeks on Mondays. ...
Mar 17, 2022•49 min•Season 2Ep. 41
This week we're delighted to have Vitaliy Katsenselson on the podcast. Vitaliy is an author and value investor who has also taught at the University of Colorado and has written articles for Barron’s, the FT, Forbes, Business Insider, and CNBC amongst others alongside his blog, Contrarian Edge and its accompanying podcast, The Intellectual Investor . He is also the CEO and CIO of Investment Management Associates in Colorado. Juan and Vitaliy discuss the mental models that Vitaliy uses in his ever...
Mar 07, 2022•56 min•Season 2Ep. 40
Joe Sweeney, the executive director of the Alliance for Decision Education is our guest this week. The Alliance for Decision Making aims to improve lives by teaching students K-12 essential skills and dispositions for making better decisions. Members of the Alliance also include Annie Duke, Daniel Kahneman, Michael Mauboussin, and Ted Seides. In this episode, Joe speaks with Juan and Andy about how the Alliance was formed, how they create decision making modules for students of all ages, and som...
Feb 21, 2022•48 min•Season 2Ep. 39
This week we have Dominique Mielle on the podcast. She recently published her memoir Damsel in Distressed, a look back at her time in hedge funds trading in distressed securities and high yield bonds. Nick Kirrage sits down with Dominique to discuss the differences between decision making styles and risk tolerances seen in men and women in finance, the unique qualities unique to distressed investors including how to balance the needs of a wider range of stakeholders – judges, regulators, credito...
Feb 07, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Recently, the co-head of the Value Team, Nick Kirrage, appeared on our sister podcast, the Investor Download. Hear his full interview on value v. growth and his outlook for 2022. You can find Investor Download on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google and any other podcast platform if you'd like to hear more. NEW EPISODES: We release main series episodes every two weeks on Mondays. You can subscribe via Podbean or use this feed URL ( https://tvpschroders.podbean.com/feed.xml ) in Apple Podcasts, Spotif...
Jan 31, 2022•22 min•Season 2Ep. 37
This week we're joined by Simon Hallett, a professional investor who spent a majority of his career at Harding Loevner as a fund manager and their CIO. In 2019, he began investing in the Plymouth Argyle FC and found many parallels between his career in investing and the management of a football club. Andy Evans and Joe Wiggins chat with Simon about how he brings decision making processes and approaches to behavioural biases that he used in asset management to English football. NEW EPISODES: We r...
Jan 24, 2022•45 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Michael Mitchell is joining Juan on the pod this week. Mike specialised in special situations investing within hedge funds and was mentored by famed value investor, Micheal Price. Mike and Juan discuss the nuances of special situations and how decision making processes adapt to this style, the new approaches Mike has taken as a private investor as opposed to when he was professional, corporate actions such as rights issues and finally the psychology of an investor. You can follow Mike on Twitter...
Jan 10, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Welcome back to our second part of our quilt episode which brings our first season of the podcast to a conclusion. We will be continuing on to a second series, of course, but please enjoy what we think are the highlights of the pod so far. NEW EPISODES: We release main series episodes every two weeks on Mondays. You can subscribe via Podbean or use this feed URL ( https://tvpschroders.podbean.com/feed.xml ) in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and other podcast players. GET IN TOUCH: send...
Jan 03, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Our guest for this episode is Marshall Elliott – a former captain in the British Army, who joined Schroders in 2017 through the company’s armed forces programme and now works in its operational excellence team - has the fantastic ability to discuss with Andy and Juan where investment and the military overlap in their decision making processes including if and how the military thinks probabilistically and, when reviewing a plan’s outcome, how much does it distinguish between skill and luck. NEW E...
Dec 27, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Juan and Andy were joined by Air Marshal Sir Graham Stacey to learn about how decisions are taken at the very highest levels of the UK military. Stacey – who joined the RAF in 1980 and has served in numerous theatres of conflict, including Afghanistan, Bosnia, the Gulf, Iraq and Kosovo – accompanies us on a diverse conversation that, in addition to a great overview of military decision-making, takes in ideas such as dealing with ‘catastrophic success’ (when things go unexpectedly well) and ‘red-...
Dec 27, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 33
As we slip into the festive period, we're going to release some fun episodes and a couple from our vault to celebrate the end of our first season. This week is the first 'quilt' episode we've made which looks back at some of our favourite episodes of the pod. Hear from each member of the Value Team discuss their favourite moments from the series and what they've learned from our guests and their decision making processes. NEW EPISODES: We release main series episodes every two weeks on Mondays. ...
Dec 20, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 32
You may know Rob Gardner is the Director of Investments & Executive Board Director of St James's Place or the co-founder of Redington, but what you may know is that he's also a children's book author educating the next generation on financial concepts. Juan Torres and Kevin Murphy sat down with Rob to learn more about how he made the decision to venture out on his own and create a very successful pension advisory, what types of structures and processes he implements in his everyday life to i...
Dec 06, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 30
This week, our guest is professor, author, and investor Russell Napier. He is also the founder The Library of Mistakes in Edinburgh. You may be familiar with his most recent book The Asian Financial Crisis: Birth of the Age of Debt Russell sat down with Vera German and Tom Dykes to discuss the use of journaling or diary keeping in the decision making process, how people respond to crises like the Asian Crisis of the 90s which Russell experienced while working in Hong Kong, and how people can get...
Nov 22, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 29
In our third episode of our mini series, we're welcoming Jim McDermott. Jim got his start in the Dot Com-era when he founded Stamps.com. Since selling that, he's focused on a different types of cutting edge tech like desalination, electric and natural gas markets, solar energy and waste streams. He also has an interest in clean, domestic biofuels. In this episode, Juan and Jim dive into carbon emission and management, developed v. emerging markets approaches to energy and hydrocarbon. NEW EPISOD...
Nov 11, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Our second interview with Tobias was much more recent and in honour of the 1 year anniversary of the Covid 19 vaccine announcement. In this episode, he and Juan discuss the role of data in investment strategy, forecasting probabilities and looking back at a year in Value since the announcement of the vaccination for Covid 19. NEW EPISODES: We release main series episodes every two weeks on Mondays and ESG mini-series every Thursday through COP26. You can subscribe via Podbean or use this feed UR...
Nov 09, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Tobias Carlisle is joining us this week for a two part interview. This first one we recorded in 2019 so consider this a 'replay' although it only surfaced back then as some blog posts . You may know Toby as the host of The Acquirers Podcast and Value: After Hours or as the managing director of Acquirers Funds. He and Juan discuss why value shouldn’t be declared ‘dead’, what might act as a catalyst for a recovery in value investing and whether reversion to the mean still has a key role to play in...
Nov 09, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Welcome back to the second episode in our ESG mini series. We’re joined this week by Arjun Murti. Arjun is a member of the ConocoPhillips board, a senior adviser to the energy sector, and a former partner at Goldman Sachs. Alex Monk and Juan Torres discuss with Arjun the history of energy transitions, the role oil and gas has within the climate change debate and his outlook for oil companies of the future. Episode notes: 1:13 Episode intro 1:52 Arjun’s background 4:02 Cyclical energy- from a maj...
Nov 04, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 25
In honour of COP26 this month, welcome to our mini series where we're exploring ESG or environmental, social, and governance factors within the industry. In this series, which we're releasing every Thursday during the conference, we're interviewing old and new guests on their approach to ESG within the industry. We've sought to speak to a wide range of guests with a variety of perspectives on this well-known topic. To begin, we're thrilled to have Erik Kobayashi-Solomon back on the pod. Erik pen...
Oct 28, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 24
