Masters in Business

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jon McAuliffe, who is co-founder and chief investment officer at the Voleon Group, heading the firm’s investment-strategy research and development. McAuliffe has a substantial track record of successful innovation in applying statistical methods to real-life prediction problems, particularly in the financial markets. McAuliffe is also an adjunct professor of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his Ph.D.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jonathan Miller. He's the founder and CEO of Miller Samuel, a real estate appraisal & consulting firm founded in 1986. They discuss the current environment for US housing, mortgage rates, and his favorite New York City penthouse apartment. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Vanguard’s Greg Davis, who in his role as chief investment officer is responsible for the oversight of approximately $7 trillion managed by Vanguard fixed income, equity index, and quantitative equity groups. Davis also serves as a member of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee of the US Treasury Department. He has more than 20 years of investment management experience. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with legal scholar Cass Sunstein, who founded and leads Harvard Law School’s program on behavioral economics and public policy. He authored several books, including the bestselling “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness” (written with Richard H. Thaler); his most recent is “How to Interpret the Constitution.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with asset management expert Ted Seides, founder of Capital Allocators LLC. His most recent book is “Capital Allocators: How the World’s Elite Money Managers Lead and Invest”; he is also the host of the popular “Capital Allocators” podcast, which reached 16 million downloads in June. Seides is a CFA charterholder and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with journalist and entrepreneur Dan Harris, author of the New York Times bestselling book “10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works.” Harris also launched the app Ten Percent Happier, and hosts the Wondery podcast “Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris.” He lives in New York City. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Liz Hoffman, who is the business and finance editor at Semafor and author of “Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World's Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink.” She was previously a senior reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she covered financial markets and corporate dealmaking.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jawad S. Mian, who is the founder and managing editor at Stray Reflections, an independent global macro research and trading advisory firm with a focus on major investment themes. His clients include some of the world’s largest hedge funds, family offices and institutional investors. Mian studied finance and economics at the University of Western Ontario, and is a CFA and CMT charterholder.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Thomas Wagner, co-chairman and co-founder of Knighthead Capital Management LLC, which has $10 billion in assets under management. He is a co-investor, with Tom Brady, in several sports assets, including a pickleball team, the English Football League's Birmingham City club and an endurance auto racing team. Before founding Knighthead Capital, Wagner was a managing director responsible for running the distressed and high-yield credit trading desks at Goldman Sachs & Co. Wagner began his career doing hedge fund accounting at Ernst & Young; prior to joining Goldman in 2000, he was a high-yield trader and special-situations desk analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On a special 500th-episode edition of Masters in Business, Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jenny Johnson, the president and chief executive officer of Franklin Templeton. Johnson joined the firm in 1988 and held leadership roles in all its major divisions, including investment management, distribution, technology, operations and high-net-worth, before becoming CEO in February 2020. She also led the historic acquisition of Legg Mason in 2020, with the combined organization managing more than $1.5 trillion globally. Among many other accolades, she has been named to Barron's list of the 100 most influential women in US finance for three consecutive years, most recently in 2022.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Ilana Weinstein, who is founder and chief executive officer of The IDW Group LLC, an executive search firm focused on placing senior hedge fund and business professionals across the investment landscape. Weinstein is also a frequent guest on Bloomberg and CNBC television programs, discussing market trends and the hedge fund universe. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Peter Borish, who is chairman and chief executive officer of Computer Trading Corporation, an investment and advisory firm whose largest consulting client is the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Borish was previously founding partner and right-hand man to Paul Tudor Jones at Tudor Investment Corporation, where he was director of research for 10 years. Borish also previously served as chief strategist for Quad Group LLC.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Gretchen Morgenson, senior financial reporter for the NBC News investigative unit. A former stockbroker and alumna of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her “trenchant and incisive” reporting on finance. She and coauthor Joshua Rosner recently published “These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs ― and Wrecks ― America.” They also wrote the 2011 bestseller “Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon,” about the mortgage crisis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A special live edition of Bloomberg Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz from the Bloomberg Hedge Fund Startup Conference. Barry discusses the current environment for hedge fund launches with IDW Group Founder and Chief Executive Officer Ilana D. Weinstein, Woodline Partners Co-Chief Investment Officer Mike Rockefeller, Fernbridge Capita Management Founder Brennan Diaz and Knighthead Capital Management Co-Founder Thomas Wagner. Taped May 31, 2023See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Mathieu Chabran, who is the co-founder of Paris-based Tikehau Capital, which has €39.7 billion ($42.5 billion) in assets under management. Prior to co-founding Tikehau in 2004, Chabran worked at Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch; he graduated from ESCP Business School and Sciences Po Aix.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with entrepreneur Ramit Sethi, who is the founder and chief executive officer of the online education platform I Will Teach You to Be Rich (IWT), which attracts more than 1 million readers a month. Sethi is also the host of the Netflix series "How To Get Rich," which is based on his his New York Times bestselling book "I Will Teach You to Be Rich"; he also hosts a podcast of the same name. His interest in the subject started in 2004, when he was studying technology and psychology at Stanford University.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with entrepreneur John Hope Bryant, who is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Operation HOPE Inc., the US's largest not-for-profit provider of financial literacy and economic empowerment tools. Described as the "Conscience of Capitalism," Bryant is also chairman and chief executive officer of John Hope Bryant Holdings, Bryant Group Ventures and The Promise Homes Company (Promise Homes). Bryant’s founded organizations have provided more than $3.5 billion in capital for the underserved over the past 30 years.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Robyn Grew, who was recently named CEO of the world’s biggest publicly traded hedge fund, Man Group, which has $145 billion in assets under management. As president, she was responsible for corporate sustainability and responsible investing; Man Solutions and Man FRM; central trading, funds treasury and bank relationships; operations; financial crime; corporate real estate; and communications. Grew is also a member of Man Group’s senior executive governance committee. She previously served as COO, general counsel, chief administrative officer, and global head of legal and compliance. Grew previously held senior positions at Barclays Capital, Lehman Brothers and LIFFE.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Howard Lindzon, who is co-founder and managing partner of the early stage seed investment fund Social Leverage. Lindzon also cofounded the social network Stocktwits, which pioneered the "cashtag" and today has over 6 million monthly unique visitors; in addition, he has written several books and hosts the podcast "Panic With Friends."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Coming soon: When nerdy gamer Sam Bankman-Fried rocketed to fame as the world’s richest 29-year-old, he pledged to donate his billions to good causes. But then his crypto exchange FTX collapsed Billions of dollars were missing, and Sam was in handcuffs. Those who knew him were left wondering — who was Sam really? A well-meaning billionaire who made a mistake? Or a calculating con man? From Wondery and Bloomberg, the makers of The Shrink Next Door, comes a new story of incredible wealth, betrayal and what happens when “doing good” goes really really bad. Learn more here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spellcaster-the-fall-of-sam-bankman-fried/id1685258534See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Julian C. Salisbury, who is chief investment officer of asset and wealth management at Goldman Sachs. Salisbury is also a member of the management committee and the board of advisers for Launch With GS, Goldman Sachs’s $1 billion investment strategy grounded in the data-driven thesis that diverse teams drive strong returns.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Benjamin Clymer and Jeffery Fowler of Hodinkee, the preeminent website for enthusiasts of modern and vintage wristwatches. Clymer, who’s been dubbed “The High Priest of Horology,” founded the site in 2008 and is currently executive chairman; Fowler was appointed Hodinkee’s chief executive officer in 2022.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Brian Hamburger, who is the founder, president and chief executive officer of the business and regulatory compliance consultancy MarketCounsel Consulting, as well as the founder and chief counsel of the Hamburger Law Firm, a boutique law firm which focuses on investment and securities industry matters. Hamburger is also the president of MarketCounsel Productions, which hosts events such as The MarketCounsel Summit, which has been called “the Davos of wealth management.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Joseph Baratta, who has served as global head of private equity at Blackstone – the world’s largest alternative asset manager, with $975 billion in assets under management – since 2012. Baratta, who joined the firm in 1998, is also a member of the board of directors and management committee, and serves on many of the firm’s investment committees.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Aswath Damodaran, who holds the Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education at New York University's Stern School of Business. A nine-time "Professor of the Year" winner at NYU, Damodaran teaches classes in corporate finance and valuation to MBA students. He has also written several books on corporate finance and equity valuation and has published widely in journals. He received his MBA and Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. His next book, "The Corporate Lifecycle: Business, Investment, and Management Implications," will be published in December. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Ken Kencel, who is president and chief executive officer of Churchill Asset Management, a private credit firm with $46 billion in assets under management that was the top US private equity lender in the 2022 PitchBook league tables and was named 2022 Lender Firm of the Year by The M&A Advisor. Churchill Asset Management is an affiliate of Nuveen, the $1.1 trillion asset-management arm of TIAA. Kencel, who has more than three decades of experience in the investment industry, also serves as chairman of the board, president and CEO of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending Inc., Churchill’s publicly registered business development company. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with former hedge fund manager Dominique Mielle, author of 2021’s “Damsel in Distressed: My Life in the Golden Age of Hedge Funds.” Mielle spent two decades as a partner and senior portfolio manager at Canyon Capital Advisors and was named one of the “50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds” by the Hedge Fund Journal and E&Y. She currently serves on the boards of four publicly traded firms and one private company. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Cliff Asness, who cofounded AQR Capital Management — which has $100 billion in assets under management — and serves as its chief investment officer. Also an active researcher, Asness has contributed to publications such as The Journal of Portfolio Management, The Journal of Finance and The Journal of Financial Economics, and has received a variety of accolades, including the James R. Vertin Award from CFA Institute in recognition of his lifetime contribution to research. Asness earned his master's in business administration as well as his Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Richard Bernstein, the chief executive officer and chief investment officer of Richard Bernstein Advisors LLC, which manages $14.6 billion in assets. Bernstein, who was previously chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch, has been named to the Institutional Investor’s “All-America Research Team” 18 times and has been inducted into the Institutional Investor Hall of Fame. He is also the author of “Style Investing: Unique Insight into Equity Management,” which is widely viewed as the seminal book on style-oriented investment strategies, as well as “Navigate the Noise: Investing in the New Age of Media and Hype.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Dr. Maria Vassalou, who is co-chief investment officer of multi-asset solutions at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Prior to her career in asset management, Dr. Vassalou was an associate professor of finance at Columbia Business School, which she joined in 1995 and where she established many of the investment principles she employs today. She earned her Ph.D. in financial economics from London Business School. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with David Layton, who is the chief executive officer of Partners Group, a global private markets firm with more than $135 billion in assets under management. Layton, who joined Partners Group in 2005, leads the firm's executive team and global executive board and is also a member of the global investment committee. He was previously the head of Partners Group's private equity business department. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Mortimer “Tim” Buckley, who is chairman and chief executive officer of Vanguard. Previously, Buckley was Vanguard’s chief investment officer and chief information officer, overseeing the company’s internally managed stock, bond, and money market portfolios as well as its investment research and methodology. Vanguard is one of the world’s largest investment management companies, with assets under management of over with $7 trillion. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Rick Rieder, who is BlackRock's chief investment officer of global fixed income, head of the fundamental fixed income business, and head of the global allocation investment team. He is responsible for some $2.4 trillion in assets. Before joining BlackRock in 2009, Rieder was president and chief executive officer of R3 Capital Partners. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with financial journalist William D. Cohan, who is the bestselling author of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World, House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, and The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co., among other books. A former Wall Street M&A investment banker for 17 years, Cohan is also a founding partner at the media company Puck. His latest book, Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon, was released in November. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Neil Dutta, partner and head of economic research at Renaissance Macro Research. Dutta analyzes global trends and cross-market investment themes. He was previously a senior economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and an analyst at Barron’s. He has appeared on Bloomberg TV and CNBC as well as in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Associated Press and Bloomberg News for his insights on interest rates, inflation, the manufacturing sector, employment and consumer spending.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 equity and debt partnerships totaling over $10 billion in capital. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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’ leadership role within it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

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 privacy information.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 more than a decade working in equity research and investment management. He received an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

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 Award for financial reporting. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

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.