Masters in Business

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.

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 also a graduate of Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 at Berkeley. He is also an Urban Land Institute Foundation governor. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

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’s Vision of the Future” and the upcoming “The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

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.

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 execution venues, securities pricing and analytics, reference data, indices, desktop solutions, consolidated feeds and connectivity services that cover all major asset classes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 Street Inside Out and Saved Investors Trillions." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 Justice.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Wealth Management Magazine and one of the 100 People Transforming Business by Business Insider in 2021. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Dr. Charles Strom, who has spent the past 30 years in the fast-changing field of genetic testing. The CEO and co-founder of Liquid Diagnostics, which uses new technology to analyze ultra-short DNA fragments in saliva and blood, Strom previously served as medical director for genetic testing at Quest Diagnostics, did groundbreaking work in pre-implantation genetics while at the Reproductive Genetics Institute, and served as a faculty member at the University of Chicago, where he also earned his doctorate and medical degrees.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Mark Mobius, known as “the Godfather of Emerging Markets,” who has spent more than 40 years working in and traveling throughout developing economies. Prior to launching the eponymous Mobius Capital Partners in 2018, he served as executive chairman of Franklin Templeton Investments’ emerging markets group, which he helped to grow from $100 million across six markets to more than $40 billion in 70 countries. Mobius has a Ph.D. in economics from MIT and has authored 12 books.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the movie star-turned-California governor, has been interested in business since long before he was Conan or the Terminator. For more than four decades, his behind-the-scenes partner has been Paul Wachter, whose Main Street Advisors was born 25 years ago, with Schwarzenegger's encouragement.The modern multihyphenate -- think LeBron, Drake, Billie Eilish -- are following a template the pair established in the 1980s, as Schwarzenegger successfully expanded his popularity and wealth through savvy dealmaking. The key element: Don't just endorse when you can own a piece of the product.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.