Masters in Business

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.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Lisa Jones, who leads the $100 billion U.S. arm of the French asset management giant Amundi, which has more than $2 trillion in assets under management globally. In addition to serving as president and chief executive officer of Amundi US Inc., Jones is president of Amundi Distributor US Inc., heads the U.S. executive committee and the U.S. management committee, and is a member of the global executive committee. She recently received her second Top Women in Asset Management Award from Money Management Executive.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, a tech executive and entrepreneur with more than two decades of experience founding, scaling and advising companies. She is founder and chair of theBoardlist, a premium talent marketplace, and author of the recent Wall Street Journal bestseller "Choose Possibility: Take Risks and Thrive (Even When You Fail)."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Soraya Darabi, who is co-founder and general partner at TMV, an early-stage venture firm which has funded a broad range of startups. Darabi is also the founder of Transact Global and host of the podcast "Business Schooled." She previously served as manager of digital partnerships and social media at The New York Times.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Chamath Palihapitiya, the founder and CEO of Social Capital LP, which backs breakthrough companies in areas such as health care, education, climate change and space. Prior to founding Social Capital, Palihapitiya was a member of Facebook's senior executive team. He is also owner and director of the NBA's Golden State Warriors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jack Schwager, an expert in futures and hedge funds and co-founder and chief research officer of FundSeeder. Schwager has also written many books, including the "Market Wizards" series; his most recent is "Unknown Market Wizards: The Best Traders You’ve Never Heard Of."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Hubert Joly, who earned a host of accolades during his tenure as chairman and CEO of Best Buy, and is currently a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. Joly's new book is "The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Campbell Harvey, a Duke University finance professor whose courses have included “Innovation and Cryptoventures” and “Blockchain Business Models.” Dr. Harvey is also a research associate at NBER and a partner and senior adviser at Research Affiliates LLC, which oversees over $180 billion in client funds. He co-wrote the recent book “DeFi and the Future of Finance.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jack Devine, a 32-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency and the founding partner and president of the international risk consulting firm The Arkin Group. Devine is also the author of “Spymaster’s Prism: The Fight Against Russian Aggression” and “Good Hunting: An American Spymaster’s Story.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Tiedemann Advisors managing director Robert Hormats, whose decades of experience in international trade and investment have brought him to posts in Western Europe, China, India, Russia, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Prior to his work with Tiedemann Advisors, Hormats spent 25 years at Goldman Sachs (International), rising to vice chairman. He has also served five U.S. presidential administrations, most recently as undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy and the environment from 2009 through 2013. He has a Ph.D. in international economics from Tufts University.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Joan Solotar, who is the global head of private wealth solutions at Blackstone, which has $684 billion in assets under management. Solotar also serves on Blackstone's management committee, and is a member of the board of trustees of East Harlem Tutorial Program and East Harlem Scholars Academies.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Fran Kinniry, who is global head of private investments at the $7 trillion Vanguard Group. During his more than two-decade tenure at Vanguard, Kinniry helped create the concept of advisor's alpha, and was previously principal in the investment strategy group and global head of portfolio construction. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Greg Becker, who is the chief executive officer of Silicon Valley Bank — the only bank dedicated to the global innovation sector — and president and CEO of SVB Financial Group. Greg joined SVB in 1993 and has served as CEO since 2011; he previously held various senior positions including co-founder and managing director of SVB Capital, chief banking officer and president of Silicon Valley Bank.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Sandy Rattray, who co-invented the VIX index and is chief investment officer at Man Group, which has more than $125 billion in assets under management. Rattray is also co-author of the recent book "Strategic Risk Management: Designing Portfolios and Managing Risk."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with public-health expert Dr. Charity Dean, who as a health official in California was among the first Americans to recognize the grave threat posed by Covid-19. Her story is recounted in Michael Lewis's latest book, "The Premonition: A Pandemic Story." She is the co-founder of The Public Health Company, which she also leads as chief executive officer.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council under President Joe Biden, about the administration's plans to challenge anti-competitive forces across the economy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Mat Ishbia, the chief executive officer of United Wholesale Mortgage, which is the top wholesale lender and No. 2 overall mortgage lender in the United States. The 9,000-person firm went public in the biggest SPAC ever. Ishbia is also the author of “Running the Corporate Offense: Lessons in Effective Leadership from the Bench to the Board Room.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Christine Hurtsellers, the chief executive officer of Voya Investment Management LLC. The firm manages approximately $252 billion in assets across fixed income, senior loans, equities, multi-asset strategies and solutions, private equity, and real assets, and also provides advisory services to individual and institutional investors. Hurtsellers also serves on Voya Financial Inc.’s executive committee.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Steven Romick of First Pacific Advisors, which manages approximately $28 billion. Romick is a managing partner and portfolio manager at FPA; prior to joining the firm in 1996, he was chairman of Crescent Management and a consulting security analyst for Kaplan, Nathan & Co. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and is a CFA charterholder.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Joe Moglia, who began his career as a football coach before moving into business and has more than 20 years of experience in each field. He is currently chairman of Fundamental Global Investors, which he also co-founded; chairman of Capital Wealth Advisors; and chair of athletics at Coastal Carolina University, where he was previously head football coach and recipient of multiple Coach of the Year honors. He was also previously CEO and chairman of the board at TD Ameritrade.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.