Masters in Business

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.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Daniel C. Chung, who is chief executive officer and chief investment officer of the asset-management firm Alger. He is also portfolio manager of several Alger strategies, including the Spectra fund, which is worth $4.5 billion. Chung has nearly three decades of investment experience; prior to that, he attended Harvard Law School and Stanford University. He is also a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Adam Parker, who is the founder and CEO of Trivariate Research LP. From 2010 to early 2017, Adam was the chief US equity strategist and director of global quantitative research at Morgan Stanley, where he was acknowledged as a top strategist and quantitative researcher multiple times by Institutional Investor magazine. He was also a member of Morgan Stanley’s Global Investment Committee, a seven-person group responsible for asset allocation recommendations for the firm’s $2 trillion private wealth network. A prolific researcher, Parker co-authored a groundbreaking paper on gender diversity as a risk factor. He holds a Ph.D. in statistics from Boston University. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Gerard O’Reilly, who is co-chief executive officer and chief investment officer at Dimensional Fund Advisors, which has $650 billion in assets under management. O’Reilly is also a director at the firm. Prior to joining Dimensional in 2004, O’Reilly earned a Ph.D. in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Boaz Weinstein, who is founder and chief investment officer of Saba Capital Management. Prior to launching Saba as an independent firm in 2009, Weinstein was co-head of global credit trading at Deutsche Bank, where he founded Saba Principal Strategies as a proprietary trading group in 1998. Weinstein first came to public notice as the fund manager on the other side of the derivatives trade from the London Whale, which ultimately cost JPMorgan Chase & Co. losses of at least $6.2 billion in 2012. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Alex Gurevich, the founder and chief investment officer of San Francisco-based global macro investment firm HonTe Advisors. Gurevich, who has more than 20 years of trading experience, formerly ran global macro at J.P. Morgan; he earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago. His most recent book, "The Trades of March 2020: A Shield against Uncertainty," was published in paperback this year.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with author Michael Lewis, whose books include “Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt,” “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,” “Liar’s Poker” and “The Fifth Risk.” He is also a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and hosts the podcast “Against the Rules.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Mark Jenkins, who is head of global credit at the investment firm The Carlyle Group. Carlyle has more than $300 billion of assets under management; its global credit platform manages over $73 billion. Jenkins is also a managing director and member of Carlyle's leadership team. He previously worked at CPPIB, Barclays Capital and Goldman Sachs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Luana Lopes Lara, who is the co-founder of KalshiEX LLC. Kalshi has developed an asset class – “event contracts” – and a financial exchange for trading on the outcome of events. After receiving approval from Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), it became the first regulated financial exchange dedicated to trading event contracts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jonathan S. Lavine, who is chief investment officer of Bain Capital Credit and co-managing partner of Bain Capital, a leading private investment firm with some $160 billion in assets under management. Bain Capital Credit, which has $40 billion in assets under management, invests across the spectrum of credit strategies, including leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed debt, private lending, structured products, nonperforming loans and equities. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with "Bond King" Bill Gross, who has been a pioneer in fixed income investing for more than 40 years. Gross co-founded Pacific Investment Management Co. in 1971 and served as managing director and its chief investment officer until 2014, when he joined Janus Capital Group (now Janus Henderson Group). He retired in 2019 to focus on managing his charitable foundation. Gross is also the author of several books, including the just-published "I'm Still Standing: Bond King Bill Gross and the PIMCO Express."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Samara Cohen, who is chief investment officer of ETF and index investments at BlackRock. Her group oversees more than $3 trillion of BlackRock's $10 trillion in assets under management.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Darren Palmer, who was recently named Ford Motor Co.'s vice president for electric vehicle programs. Palmer was previously Ford's head of battery-electric vehicles, where he was responsible for leading the automaker's EV business in North America.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Michelle Seitz, chairman and CEO of Russell Investments Group LLC, a global investment solutions firm with $331.5 billion in assets under management and $2.8 trillion under advisement for clients in 32 countries. In 2020 and 2021, Seitz appeared on Barron’s "Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance" list. Before joining Russell, Seitz spent 22 years with William Blair & Co., including 16 as a member of the firm’s executive committee and CEO of William Blair Investment Management.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with David R. Kotok, who is co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Cumberland Advisors, which has $4 billion in assets under management. Kotok is also a director at the nonprofit Global Interdependence Center, which promotes free trade and international dialogue, and has authored or co-authored four books, including "From Bear to Bull with ETFs" and "Adventures in Muniland: A Guide to Municipal Bond Investing in the Post-Crisis Era."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with journalist Sebastian Mallaby about his new book, “The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future.” Mallaby, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also the author of “More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Samantha McLemore of Miller Value Partners, which has some $3.1 billion in assets under management. McLemore has worked alongside Miller Value Partners founder Bill Miller on opportunity equity for some two decades, and is expected to take over the Miller Opportunity Trust following his retirement. McLemore is also the founder, majority owner and chief investment officer of Patient Capital Management, an investment adviser that serves institutional clients in cooperation with Miller Value Partners, which has some $281 million in assets under management.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with James Anderson, a longtime partner at Edingburgh-based Baillie Gifford & Co. and joint manager of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC, who will be retiring in April. Last year, he drew headlines for criticizing the industry as “irretrievably broken.” Baillie Gifford currently has 326 billion pounds ($441 billion) in assets under management.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Rebecca Patterson, who serves as director of investment research at the world's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. In addition to shaping the firm's research agenda, Patterson is a member of the executive committee, investment committee, and commercial and business strategy committee, and helps lead the firm’s diversity and inclusion efforts. She previously served as chief investment officer at Bessemer Trust, where she oversaw $85 billion in client assets, and is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with David Conrod, who is co-founder and chief executive officer of FocusPoint Private Capital Group. Prior to co-founding FocusPoint — which raises capital for private equity, credit, real estate, real assets and direct transactions in developed and emerging markets — Conrod was a senior managing director at Guggenheim Partners, where he established its private fund group, obtaining more than $7 billion of fund allocations for general partnerships external to the firm.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Tina Vandersteel, who is the head of GMO’s Emerging-Country Debt team. Prior to joining GMO in 2004, she worked at J.P. Morgan in fixed-income research developing quantitative arbitrage strategies for emerging debt and high-yield bonds. She began her career at Morgan Guaranty Trust, attending Morgan Finance Program #18, before establishing her career in emerging debt. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with entrepreneur Jim McKelvey, author of “The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time.” McKelvey is the CEO and founder of Invisibly and (with Jack Dorsey) co-founder of Square, where he currently sits on the board of directors. McKelvey also chairs the board of directors at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Ray Dalio, who is founder, co-chair and co-chief investment officer of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. His most recent book is “Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with social psychologist Richard Nisbett, an emeritus professor at the University of Michigan who has studied how culture affects cognitive processes, among other issues. He is the author of several books, including "The Geography of Thought," "Intelligence and How to Get It," and, most recently, "Thinking: A Memoir." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Bloomberg Businessweek features editor and tech reporter Max Chafkin, who is author of "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power." Chafkin's work has also appeared in Fast Company, Vanity Fair and The New York Times Magazine. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Michael Mauboussin, who is head of consilient research at Morgan Stanley Investment Management's Counterpoint Global and co-author of the recently revised and updated book "Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns." Mauboussin joined Morgan Stanley in 2020 and has more than three decades of experience. He previously served as director of research at BlueMountain Capital Management, head of global financial strategies at Credit Suisse, and chief investment strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management. He is also an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School and chairman of the board of trustees at the Santa Fe Institute. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with New York Times business reporter Maureen Farrell, who co-authored the 2021 book "The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion" along with Eliot Brown. Before joining the New York Times, Farrell spent nearly 10 years at the Wall Street Journal.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with venture capitalist John Doerr, chairman of Kleiner Perkins and author of the recently published “Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now.” Doerr also authored 2018’s bestselling “Measure What Matters.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Steven Fradkin, president of Northern Trust's wealth management business unit, which has $355 billion in assets under management. Fradkin was previously chief financial officer and head of international business at Northern Trust, among other roles. He has been a member of the corporation’s management committee since 2004.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Edwin Conway, the global head of BlackRock Alternative Investors (BAI). BAI, one of the fastest-growing parts of the investment giant BlackRock – which is itself the world’s largest asset manager, with $9.46 trillion in assets under management – manages more than $300 billion and has more than 1,000 employees. Conway chairs the BAI Executive Committee and oversees the strategic direction of BlackRock’s Alternatives platform.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Robin Wigglesworth, who is the global finance correspondent for the Financial Times and author of the just-published “Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Markel Corp. co-chief executive officer Thomas S. Gayner. Gayner oversees investing activities for the company — which boasts a capital portfolio of $27 billion — as well as the Markel Ventures companies. He also serves on the boards of Colfax Corp., Graham Holdings Co., Cable One Inc. and Davis Funds, as well as that of Markel.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.