The Wall Street Lab
The Wall Street Lab explores the world of finance from an insider perspective. Host Andreas von Hirschhausen interviews top financial professionals across private equity, hedge funds, investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, asset management, venture capital, management consulting, and trading. Episodes cover investment topics, financial markets and news, career development in finance, favorite books, and personal habits. The podcast offers listeners an in-depth look at the people and ideas shaping the financial industry.
Episodes
#110 - The Human Side of Dealmaking with Rohan Doctor, Louisa AI
Rohan Doctor, founder and CEO of Louisa AI, joins The Wall Street Lab to discuss relationship intelligence, trust, and how complex institutional business actually gets done. Before founding Louisa, Rohan spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs, including a decade as a managing director. In this episode, Andi and Rohan discuss how senior banking relationships are built, why CRM systems often fail to captur
#109 - A Deep Dive into Hedge Fund Replication with Andrew Beer, DBi
Andrew Beer, co-founder and managing member of Dynamic Beta Investments (DBi), joins The Wall Street Lab for a deep dive into hedge fund replication, managed futures, and liquid alternatives. Andrew started his hedge fund career at Baupost, working for Seth Klarman, before co-founding investment firms focused on commodities, hedge funds, and relative value strategies. In this episode, Andi and And
#108 - Finding The Good In Private Equity - With Rami Cassis, Parabellum Investments
Rami Cassis, founder and CEO of Parabellum Investments, discusses how his firm operates as a hybrid between a family office and private equity firm. He provides an inside look at his investment approach, building relationships and reputation, and his perspective on improving private equity's image. Key Topics and Timestamps: What a hybrid family office and private equity firm is and why Cassis ca
#107 - Building a strong investment banking network - Christina Bresani, William Blair
In this episode, Christina Bresani, Managing Director and Head of Corporate Advisory at William Blair, shares her insights and experiences in investment banking and corporate advisory. She discusses her background, breaking into the industry, and the importance of networking. Christina explains the role of corporate advisory and its responsibilities in mergers and acquisitions, including advising
#106 - Understanding Behavioral Dynamics in Investing - Dr. Daniel Crosby
In this episode, Dr. Daniel Crosby shares insights on the behavioral aspects of investing. The conversation covered a range of topics, including the trends of passive and active investing, the biases exhibited by portfolio managers, the impact of recent events like the WallStreetBets phenomenon, and the interconnectedness of personal well-being and financial decision-making. Let's delve into the k
#105 - Where Financial Advisors Get Advice From: Insights from Gene Goldman, CIO of Cetera Financial Group
In this episode of the Wall Street Lab podcast, we had the opportunity to interview Gene Goldman, the Chief Investment Officer and Director of Research at Cetera Financial Group. We will dive into the key takeaways from the interview and explore how they combine quantitative and qualitative data to generate insights for financial investment decisions. More about our sponsor Fintalent.io: https://f
#104- Leader, Banker, Artist: Lessons For A Sustainable Career From a GS' Prime Brokerage Leader Brian Robinson (Goldman Sachs)
Brian Robinson is not your average banker. He's a partner at Goldman Sachs, runs the firm's Prime Brokerage sales force and leads the hedge fund client segment for equities, both for the Americas region, but he's also made a name for himself through his unconventional yet determined approach to career and leadership. In this episode, we'll take you on an interesting trip through Brian's mind. We
#103 - "We come in when founders have figured out the hard stuff" - Christoph Jost, FLEX Capital
Investors are quick to brag about the impact and network they add to their investments. After all, they know a lot of important people, have access to cash, and an infinite source of knowledge. Christoph Jost, Founder & Managing Partner at FLEX Capital, isn't one of them. "We come in when the founders have already done the hard part", he says. "They have scaled their business to 1 million EBITD
#102 - Navigating family matters, PE and VC investments inside the World of Family Office Management with Jan Voss (BLN Capital)
Welcome to the Wall Street Lab podcast, where we interview top financial professionals and deconstruct their practices to give you an insider look into the world of finance. In this episode, Jan Voss of BLN Capital shares insights on the challenges, rewards, and intricacies of working in the family office space We discussed: What are the complexities of family offices and their various forms
#101 - Ian Schnoor (Financial Modeling Institute) - Financial Modeling: From spreadsheet to story in 3 steps
Welcome to the Wall Street Lab podcast, where we interview top financial professionals and deconstruct their practices to give you an insider look into the world of finance. Financial models are more than forecasts - they're a crucial decision-making tool. And it takes more than Excel-skills to make them impactful. Our guest today is Ian Schnoor, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Financial
#100 - Alan "AJ" Jones - Career lessons from a Private Equity legend
Welcome to the Wall Street Lab podcast, where we interview top financial professionals and deconstruct their practices to give you an insider look into the world of finance. Alan Jones is a Senior Managing Director and the Head of North American Private Investment of ICG Asset Management, a global alternative asset manager with over 65 billion USD in Assets under Management. Prior to ICG, Alan s
#99 - Kison Patel - What M&A can learn from software
Welcome to the Wall Street Lab podcast, where we interview top financial professionals and deconstruct their practices to give you an insider look into the world of finance. Today we're joined by Kison Patel, CEO and Founder of M&A Science and Dealroom, a project management software for complex M&A transactions. In this interview, we will discuss: Why current M&A practices are not enough anymore
#98 - Krista Morgan (Stage) - Early-stage Private Equity!? And The Story Behind It.
Welcome to the Wall Street Lab podcast, where we interview top financial professionals and deconstruct their practices to give you an insider look into the world of finance. Today we're joined by Krista Morgan, a general partner at Stage, an early-stage private equity firm based in Denver, Colorado. She's also the co-founder of Aelin.ai, an artificial intelligence platform helping small businesses
#97 - Maëlle Gavet (Techstars CEO) - 3,300 Investments And Counting: Building Businesses With Empathy
My guest today is Maëlle Gavet, the CEO of Techstars. Techstars is one of the world's largest pre-seed investors, with over 3,300 investments. Maëlle is the Author of "Trampled by Unicorns" and an advocate for Empathetic Tech. Today is a special episode. I apologize for the noise in the background because we have the pleasure of recording this episode in person at the Web Summit in Lisbon. Links
#96 - Lisa Marchese (Amex) - Developing Amex through strategic M&A
Today we're joined by Lisa Marchese, Head of Corporate Development of American Express, where she is responsible for all venture investments, joint ventures and M&A activities. Previous positions at American Express include SVP of International Business Development, VP Corporate Development, and VP Strategic Planning Group within the last 20 years. Lisa holds an MBA degree from Columbia Business S
#95 - Andi von Hirschhausen (Reach.Finance) - From Banking To Entrepreneurship, and the Founder's Perspective to VC
Today is a special episode - because our host Andi is the guest! Andi was a guest on the Fintalent.io podcast. Of course, he's not only the host of the Wall Street Lab, but also founded his own FinTech recently - and raised money for it. If you have always wondered who Andi actually is and how he started the Wall Street Lab podcast, this is the episode to tune in. In this episode, we discussed:
#94 - Danielle Joseph (Closed Loop Partners) - Venture Capital Investing into the Circular Economy for a more Sustainable Future-1
Our guest today is Danielle Joseph. Danielle is a Managing Director and leads the Closed Loop Ventures Group platform – the seed and pre-seed investment division of Closed Loop Partners - focused on the circular economy. She is also a Board Member of several companies. Prior to Closed Loop Partners, Danielle worked on clean energy project finance activities, including clean energy, energy eff
#93 - Srecko Dzeko Flash Ventures - Early Stage Venture Investing from Entrepreneur to Investor Advice for Founders and young VCs
Srecko Dzeko is a General Partner with Flash Ventures in Berlin, focusing on Europe and Latin America. Prior to joining Flash, he was a Senior Consultant at McKinsey. During his career Srecko working in banking with ANZ and Morgan Stanley, private equity with 3i and founded his own startup: Simplo, a venture-backed B2B marketplace. Srecko holds degrees in philosophy from the London School of Econo
#92 - Oemer Gueven (fintalent.io) - How to Become and Succeed as an M&A Freelancer
#91 - Ginger Rothrock HG Ventures - Sustainable Corporate Venture Capital for Heavy Industries
#90 Mathieu Chabran (Tikehau Capital) - Building and Scaling an Alternative Investments Asset Manager
Mathieu Chabran is Co-founder of Tikehau Capital, a global alternative asset manager with over 30 Billion USD in Assets under Management. Previously, he worked in the Real Estate Debt Market team of Deutsche Bank in London. He began his career at Merrill Lynch, firstly in Paris within the Principal Investment team, then in London, in the High Yield Capital Market department. He received his educa
#89 Andrew J Scott (7percent ventures) - From Entrepreneuer to Venture Capital Investor
Andrew Scott is a founding partner of 7percent ventures, a London & San Francisco-based technology VC. Before founding 7percent ventures in 2014, Andrew founded six startups of his own. Among these was the world's first location based social network (Playtxt 2001; patented), online digital news archive (BritishPathe.com, 2002), trust graph/recommendation engine using machine learning (Rummble, 200
#88 Salim Ramji (iShares by BlackRock) - Making Investing easier for Millions of People with ETFs and Indexing Investing, and the Purpose of Life
Salim Ramji is a Senior Managing Director and Global Head of iShares and Index Investments for BlackRock and a member of the firm's Global Executive Committee. Prior to that he was Head of BlackRock's U.S. Wealth Advisory business. Salim joined BlackRock in 2014, serving initially as the Global Head of Corporate Strategy. Before joining BlackRock, he was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company w
#87 Barney Coles (Capital Dynamics) - Investing Into Clean Energy Infrastructure
Barney Coles is a Managing Director, Co-Head of the Clean Energy team and member of the Executive Committee of Capital Dynamics. He is also a member of the Responsible Investment Committee. He has over a decade of renewable energy financing experience across Europe. Prior to joining Capital Dynamics, Barney spent over six years in energy corporate finance at Ernst & Young in London, working across
#86 Rasa Karapandza (EBS University) - Empirical Asset Pricing, Machine Learning, Payment For Order Flow, Cryptocurrencies
Rasa Karapandza is a Professor of Finance, Vice Dean of Education, and the Academic Director of the Master in Finance Program at EBS Business School in Germany. He is also a visiting Professor at New York University. He was previously also visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. Additionally, Rasa is a Member of the board of directors and member of the audit committee of RS2, a payment processing company
#85 - Jens Bernhardt (Iconic Funds) - Deep Dive into Family Offices, Private Banking, and Wealth Management
Jens Bernhardt is the Founder and Managing Partner of Bernhardt Advisory, a multifamily office, an M&A service provider, and placement agent for private equity funds in Germany. Before founding his own company, Jens was Chief Investment Strategist of the family office service provider subsidiary of Sal. Oppenheim, which at the time in 2008, was Europe's largest independent private bank. Jens p
#84 Jascha Samadi (Greenfield One) - How Venture Capital in Crypto works: Investing in Web3
Jascha Samadi is Co-Founder and Partner at Greenfield One, a Berlin-based early-stage venture fund dedicated to blockchain and crypto. Greenfield One makes long-term bets on early developer teams building towards an open, decentralized and more robust architecture of tomorrow's web. Prior to Greenfield One, Jascha was Co-Founder and CEO of apprupt, which was acquired by browser maker Opera Softwar
#83 Mohnish Pabrai (Pabrai & Dhandho Funds) - Value Investing, Great Compounders, and Lessons from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger
Our guest today is Mohnish Pabrai. Mohnish is a legendary investor, a shameless cloner and an effective philanthropist. He is both, the author and the subject of several books. Mohnish is the founder and Managing Partner of Pabrai Investment Funds, Founder and CEO of Dhandho Funds, Founder of the Dakshana Foundation. He is the author of "The Dhandho Investor" and "Mosaic: Perspectives on Investing
#82 - Laurie Menoud (At One Ventures) - Deep Tech VC Investing as a Way to Net Positivity
Our guest today is Laurie Menoud. Laurie is a Partner at At One Ventures, a VC that finds, funds, and grows deep-tech startups to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature. Laurie also joined the board of directors of several Startups, and is a multi board observer. Throughout her career Laurie was a Microbiologist, a Biochemist, and Biotechnologist. She was involved in the chara
#81 Luis Garcia Alvarez (MAPFRE Asset Management) - Value Investing, Behavioural Finance, and Investing in European Football Clubs
Our guest today is Luis García Álvarez. Luis is an Equity Portfolio Manager at MAPFRE Asset Management. MAPFRE is the world's largest Spanish insurance company and the second largest insurance group in Latin America. Luis has recently received the 'Fund Manager of the Year' award at the Third Edition of the RankiaPro Awards. The economic-financial publication has recognized Luis as "anticipatin
#80 Alina Sychova - Investment Banking and IPO Process in Emerging Markets
Alina Sychova has more than 18 years of experience in Investment Banking. Currently as the head of capital markets origination at Sova Capital, a UK based Broker specializing in Emerging Markets. Previously, Alina was a managing director and the head of equity Capital markets at Gazprom bank. And before that, the head of ECM origination in Russia and CIS that's the Commonwealth of independent stat
#79 Michael Berns of PwC - Busting Myths about AI in Finance and its adoption around the world
Michael Berns is Director for AI & FinTech at PwC. Michael has a broad background across blue chip names such as Morgan Stanley & Moody's as well as a range of smaller innovative AI Firms. Michael has been a Mentor and Judge for organizations like Startup Bootcamp, Virgin Money Startup, Cocoon Network, Level 39, MIT Inclusive Innovation Competition and the United Nations World Food Program. Michae
#78 Lutfey Siddiqi - Global Risk Management, and Diversity and Inclusion in Financial Institutions
Lutfey is a Visiting Professor-in-Practice (IDEAS - "Ranked #1 university-affiliated think-tank 2020") at LSE, the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he also is aMember of Scientific Advisory Board at the LSE Systemic Risk Centre. At LSE he is also Co-investigator of the Inclusion Initiative, a Former member of the LSE Court of Governors & Investment Committee. He is also an A
#77 Robert Almgren - A Deep Dive into Optimal Trade Execution in Fixed Income and Futures Using Quantitative Methods
Robert Almgren is the Chief Scientist and co-founder of Quantitative Brokers. Rob was previously a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago, the University of Toronto, and currently teaches High-Frequency Markets at Princeton University. Prior to QB, Robert was a Managing Director and Head of Quantitative Strategies in the Electronic Trading Services group at Bank of America until 200
#76 Timo Pfeiffer - An Intro to Indices - creation, use cases, and maintenance
Hello and Welcome to another episode of the Wall Street Lab Podcast. I am currently in the offices of Solactive in Frankfurt. The second in person interview in a very long time. With me is today's guest: Timo Pfeiffer. Timo is the Chief Markets Officer of Solactive and in charge of Research, Sales, and Communications. He joined in 2017 as Head of Research & Business Development, after working for
#75 Michaela Walsh - Founding the Women's World Banking Movement, Financial Inclusion, and Female Entrepreneurship
Our guest today is Michaela Walsh. Michaela is an activist, scholar, mentor, educator, and author. She was the Founding President of Women's World Banking. Women's World Banking is the global leader in women's financial inclusion. Prior to that, Michaela served as a Project Director for the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and as a Program Associate with the Rockefeller Brothers
#74 Daniel Faggella - Use Cases for AI in Financial Services and where funding really goes
Daniel Faggella is the Founder, CEO, and Head of Research at Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research. He is also a Member of the OECD Network of Experts on AI, a Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Daniel previously founded Science of Skill, CLVboost, and Black Diamond Mixed Martial Arts Academy, so we have someone with a very specific and similarly broad experience set. D
#73 Hugo Bongers - Corporate Venture Capital, Grooming Unicorns, and Investing in Startups
Hugo Bongers is the Head of ABN Amro Ventures, the 150 million Euro Corporate Venture Capital fund of Dutch Bank ABN Amro. His mission is to make strategic investments in early-stage (series A and onwards) tech and fintech companies which are relevant for the bank. His job is to scout for innovative companies, invest in them, connect them with relevant stakeholders within the bank. Hugo is on the
#72 Colin Lancaster - Global Macro Trading, Hedge Funds, The Covid Pandemic, and Market Trends
Colin Lancaster is a 25-year Wall Street professional. He has run two of the highest profile global macro businesses for the top-performing hedge funds in the world and has worked directly for a number of the icons in the investing world. Most recently he was Head of Global Macro Strategies at Citadel and prior to that he was Head of Global Macro at Balyasny Asset Management. He has managed invest
#71 JC de Swaan from Princeton University - Finance as a Force for Good
Jean-Christophe or JC de Swaan is a lecturer in the economics department at Princeton University, where he is affiliated with the Bendheim Center for Finance. He teaches courses on ethics in finance and on Asian capital markets to undergraduate and graduate students. He also teaches at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. In the past he has taught at Yale University, Hong
#70 Patrick Lowry of Iconic Holding & Cryptology Asset Group - Institutional Crypto Adoption, BTC ETPs, Bitcoin Mining and ESG, and NFTs
Patrick Lowry is the CEO and Managing Partner of Iconic Holding. Iconic Holding is a global crypto asset management group that started in 2017 with Iconic Lab, a global crypto VC and accelerator. Iconic also launched a series of crypto asset index vehicles under the Iconic Funds brand. Patrick is also the CEO of Cryptology Asset Group. Cryptology is a Malta based investment company investing in cr
#69 Bashar Al Natoor from Fitch Ratings - Islamic Finance, Intro, Challenges, and Opportunities
Bashar Al-Natoor is Fitch Rating's Global Head Islamic Finance. Bashar is responsible for coordinating all Islamic Finance activities across Fitch's Sovereign, Financial Institutions, Corporate, Structured Finance, Infrastructure and Insurance teams. Bashar has more than 16 years' experience in the Islamic Finance market. Prior to joining Fitch, Bashar spent seven years at the Islamic Development
#68 Radboud Vlaar from Finch Capital - Venture Capital Investments into European Fintechs
Radboud Vlaar is a Managing Partner at Finch Capital, a VC investor based out of Amsterdam. Prior to launching Finch Capital and its first fund in 2013, Radboud was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, focused on Financial Services, PE, and M&A. Prior to McKinsey, Radboud worked at TPG, co-founded 3 companies. Radboud holds four Master's Degrees from the University in Groningen. Radboud leads the fir
#67 Brett King - The Ultimate Fintech Episode
Brett King is a futurist, an Amazon bestselling author, an award-winning speaker, host the globally recognized radio show Breaking Banks, is the Founder and Executive Chairman of neo-bank Moven. He advised the Obama administration on the Future of Banking. Brett has spoken at TED conferences, given opening keynotes for Wired, Techsauce, Singularity University, Web Summit, The Economist, IBM's Worl
#66 Stephen Stonberg - Cryptocurrencies, Tokenisation, and Regulation
Stephen Stonberg is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Bittrex Global, one of the leading crypto trading platforms. Before joining Bittrex Global, Stephen held Managing Director positions with Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan, Credit Suisse, the Winton Group, and Goldman Sachs. He was Partner and CEO U.S. of the hedge fund Brevan Howard. In this episode, we talk about all
#65 Elizabeth Crain - Current Trends in M&A and Investment Banking
Elizabeth Crain is the Chief Operating Officer and a Founding Partner at Moelis & Company where she leads the Firm's global strategy, infrastructure, and business management functions. Elizabeth has been in the investment banking and private equity industries for over 25 years as a banker, principal, and operations executive. Moelis is a global independent investment bank that has advised on more
#64 Chris Younger - Entrepreneur-First Investment Banking
Chris co-founded Class VI in 2005 with a mission to Enable the Entrepreneurial Spirit. Prior to Class VI, Chris spent more than 20 years gaining experience in executive management, marketing, sales, law, and mergers and acquisitions. Chris was a co-founder and President of Expanets, the nation's largest provider of converged communications solutions. During his tenure with Expanets, Chris led the
#63 Martin Boyd - Lessons from the largest fintech in the world
Martin is President of FIS Capital Market Solutions business. You might have heard of FIS because of their 43 billion Dollar acquisition of worldpay in 2019, which was the largest acquisition in the Fintech industry to date. FIS is the world's largest Fintech with over 10 billion USD in revenue and over 55,000 employees globally. In this role, Martin is responsible for developing and delivering t
#62 Weijian Shan - A Private Equity Deep Dive and Money Games
Weijian Shan is chairman and CEO of PAG, a leading Asia-focused private equity firm. Prior to PAG, he was a partner of TPG, and co-managing partner of TPG Asia (formerly known as Newbridge Capital). Over two decades, Weijian Shan has led a number of landmark transactions. Previously, Shan was a managing director of JP Morgan, and an assistant professor at the Wharton School of the University of
#61 Stephan Feilhauer - Principal Investing in Infrastructure Tech Startups
Stephan Feilhauer is a Managing Director at Macquarie Capital, the corporate advisory, capital markets and principal investment arm of Macquarie Group. Stephan leads Macquarie Capital's growth equity investment, or investments on the firm's own balance sheet, in the Infratech sector. Before Macquarie Capital, Stephan was a VP at Deutsche Bank, a Graduate Researcher at MIT, a Financial Economist at
#60 Rich Nuzum - Advising 16 Trillion Dollars in Assets
Rich Nuzum is President of Mercer's Investments & Retirement business and a member of Mercer's Executive Leadership Team. Rich is also the Executive Sponsor for Mercer's Pride Business Resource Network. Rich's prior roles include President and Global Business Leader for Mercer's Investment Management business and global Chief Investment Officer for Mercer's Investment Management business. Rich hol
#59 Martin Hahn - An Overview of the Private Equity Investment Space
Martin is Chief Executive Officer, Head of Business Development and a member of the Executive Committee of Capital Dynamics. He has over 30 years of experience in sales, marketing and general management. Prior to joining Capital Dynamics, Martin was an independent management consultant and CEO at TestQuest, Inc., a start-up software company in the US. Earlier in his career, he held general manager
#58 Robert Santella - Voice Trading, Finch and becoming CEO of the Year
Rob is the CEO of IPC Systems, the leading voice trading company famous for their dealer turrets, which you can find on every trading floor. Previously, Rob was the President of Global Trading at FIS, the world's largest Fintech and a Fortune 500 company. Before that, Rob was COO of several different companies. Rob recently won the CEO of the Year award. We speak about the past, present, and futur
#57 Andrew White – Intro to Regulation Technology (RegTech) and a Master Class in Company Bootstrapping
Andrew White is the founder and CEO of fundapps, a regulatory technology company founded 10 years ago. He completely bootstrapped fundapps and grew it from a small startup to over 60 people and 9 trillion USD in monitored client assets. The company provides Shareholder Disclosure software to Hedge Funds and other asset owners. Before founding fundapps, Andrew was a managing director at aquin compo
#56 Lila Preston – A Deep Dive into Sustainable and ESG Investing
Lila Preston is a Partner at Generation Investment Management, and is Co-Head of the Growth Equity platform – Generation's private equity fund. Generation was, amongst others, founded by former US Vice President Al Gore. In Addition, Lila serves on the board of several companies. Lila holds a Bachelor's degree from Stanford University and an MBA from London Business School. In this episode we de
#55 Jacco Minnaar – How to Create Returns While Investing with Impact
Jacco Minnaar is the Chair of the Management Board and Managing Director of Triodos Investment Management, a globally active, multi-billion Dollar Impact investor. Jacco has 25 years of experience in the financial and investment industry. Prior to his current position as Chair, he served Triodos across various positions including Director of Energy and Climate, Fund Manager of Triodos Fair Share
#54 Clare Flynn Levy – Using Data to Preserve Alpha as a Fund Manager
Clare Flynn Levy, Founder and CEO of Essentia Analytics, a behavioral data analytics service that helps professional investors make measurably better investment decisions. She also sits on the board of several and before founding Essentia, she was active as a fund manager, both for a company she founded herself and big names like DWS. Clare tells us how data analytics can be used to become a bette
#53 Toby Main - Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Mentoring
Toby is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Efficient Frontier Investing, a Swiss financial product engineering firm. He also founded Isla Capital Management, a company that providers bespoke financial Solutions in Asset Management and Advisory Services. Before he was active as as Interim CIO at Status Capital and active in several Roles at Bedrock Group, one of Europe's biggest Family Offices
#52 Gregory Zuckerman – Insights into Wall Street and the Man Who Solved the Market
Gregory Zuckerman is a Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal, a 23-year veteran of the paper and a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb award - the highest honor in business journalism. Greg is the author of five books: The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution; The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters; The Greatest Trade E
#51 Howie Li - Thematic Investing and the Future of Asset Management
Howie is the Head of ETF for Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM). Prior to joining LGIM, Howie was the CEO of Canvas, an ETF platform acquired by Legal and General in 2018. Prior to that, Howie trained and worked at Simmons & Simmons in London advising the hedge fund industry. LGIM is with 1.5 trillion USD AuM among the 20 largest Asset Managers in the world. This episode is all about t
#50 Anniversary Episode aka Our Random Show
Today we have some absolutely non-special guests. We talk to…ourselves. To celebrate our 50th episode we made our own random episode, talking about our founding story and sharing some background on our professional lives. We also share some of our favourite episodes, books, podcasts, online learning resources and a bunch of nonsense comments. If you expect deep insights into a new financial topic,
#49 Peter Chun - Asian M&A Trends
Peter Chun is the founder of Silverbear Capital, a globally positioned consulting and investment banking firm. Peter Chun has nearly 20 years of International finance expertise. He specialises in corporate restructuring, corporate finance, and M&A. He has worked with and represented companies of all sizes and configurations. He also brings listing experience in Korea, Toronto, Hong Kong, Frankfurt
#48 Howard Marks – The Most Important Thing
Howard Marks is co-chairman and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management a leading global investment firm with deep expertise in credit strategies, which manages more than $120 billion in assets. Howard is the bestselling author of the two highly influential books: "Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side" and "The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor"
#47 Chris Schelling – Assessing the People Behind Private Equity Funds
Christopher ("Chris") Schelling is the Director responsible for Private Equity investments at Texas Municipal Retirement System ("TMRS"). Prior to joining TRMS, Chris served as Deputy Chief Investment Officer and Director of Absolute & Real Return at Kentucky Retirement Systems and as an Adjunct Professor of Finance at University of Kentucky, where he taught a class in Alternative Investments. He
#46 Dan Houlihan - Asset Servicing, Behind the Scenes of Asset Management
Dan Houlihan is an Executive Vice President and Head of Northern Trust Asset Servicing for the Americas. Prior to joining Northern Trust, Dan spent 19 years in numerous leadership positions across several companies in the investment management, technology, and service space. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board for the National Investment Company Service Association (NICSA) and as a Direct
#45 Daniel Crosby - Deep Dive into Behavioral Finance
Daniel Crosby is a New York Times Bestselling author with books like "Personal Benchmark", "The Laws of wealth", and "The behavioral investor". He is also the Chief Behavioral Officer of Brinker Capital. He spoke at TEDx in Huntsville and hosts the podcast "Standard deviations". Daniel holds a PhD in Psychology from Brigham Young University. We talk about his role as Chief Behavioural Officer, the
#44 Paolo Sironi - Fintech, Innovation, and Financial Market Transparency
Paolo Sironi is the Author of several books including "Financial Market Transparency" or "Fintech Innovation". He is a Fintech Advisor for IBM, Fintech Thought Leader, co-host of the podcast "breaking banks europe", and member of the advisory boards of several companies. In the past, Paolo founded his own fintech startup as a joint venture of German Private Bank Sal. Oppenheim and Fitch ratings. B
#43 Michael O'Sullivan - Economics, Globalization, and the life of a CIO
Michael O'Sullivan is the author of the book 'The Levelling' - What's Next After Globalisation? He has a blog with the same name. He is a World Economic Forum Global Futures Council member and Forbes contributor. Michael holds a PhD from Oxford and is the former Chief Investment Officer for International Wealth Management of Credit Suisse. We talk about his different roles, like being an equity st
#42 Jorge Tavio - The Data that Powers Financial Markets
Jorge Tavio is the Market Development Director, Wealth EMEA for Refinitiv. Refinitiv is one of the largest market data providers on the planet with more than 40,000 clients in 190 countries. In his current role Jorge is leading the wealth market development team in EMEA. He and his team are connecting the dots between new technology, regulation, new business models and innovative customer experien
#41 Christina Qi - High Frequency Trading, Hedge Funds, and Women in Finance
Christina Qi serves as Founding Partner at Domeyard LP, among the longest running HFT hedge funds in the world, and CEO of Databento, a unified data discovery platform. She started Domeyard 8 years ago with $1000 in savings. Domeyard trades up to $1 billion USD per day. Her company's story has been featured on the front page of Forbes and Nikkei, and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, C
#40 Uwe Wystup - Quantitative Finance and Exotic Options
Uwe Wystup is the founder and Managing Director of MathFinance, a quantitative finance advisory firm. They specialize in the development of state-of-the art models for trading, sales and risk management. Their focus is on FX options, the volatility surface and structured derivatives. Uwe is also a Professor of Financial Option Price Modeling at the University of Antwerp, Honorary Professor at Fran
#39 Markus Koch - Telling the Stories of Wall Street
Markus Koch is a German Wall Street journalist and entrepreneur. He started trading friends & families money very early and had 70k€ debt at age 17. He then paid back the money by working at Bear Sterns before starting his own journalism company. Markus acted as Economic Advisor for the Web-Series "We, the economy", produced by Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen and was part of the Introduction of th
#38 Andreas Lukic - Angel Investing and Venture Capital
Andreas Lukic is the Managing Partner of ValueNet Capital Partners, a Private Equity Firm based in Frankfurt. He is also the honorary Chairman of the Business Angels FrankfurtRheinmain e.V., one of the biggest Angel Investor networks of Europe where he engages to grow the Frankfurt Angel and Venture Capital ecosystem. Andreas has worked in Private Equity, Venture Capital and has been an Angel Inve
#37 Mark Yusko – (Part 2) CEO and CIO of Morgan Creek Capital Management
PART 2 - Mark Yusko is the Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer at Morgan Creek Capital Management, a company that provides investment management services to institutions and wealthy families. Prior to forming Morgan Creek, Mark was the President, Chief Investment Officer and Founder of UNC Management Company, the endowment investment office for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
#36 Mark Yusko – CEO and CIO of Morgan Creek Capital Management (Part 1)
Mark Yusko is the Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer at Morgan Creek Capital Management, a company that provides investment management services to institutions and wealthy families. Prior to forming Morgan Creek, Mark was the President, Chief Investment Officer and Founder of UNC Management Company, the endowment investment office for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior t
#35 Gerard Tong - The unromantic truth about becoming a trader
If you always wanted to have a real and unromantic view on what it takes to be a trader, this is the episode for you. Gerard is Principle at Epitrain, a financial markets, business, and project management training company. He also teaches Trading courses at the National University of Singapore, one of Asia's most prestigious universities and Singapore Management University. Gerard has been in the
#34 Paul Smith - President and CEO of the CFA Institute
This week, we had the pleasure to speak to the current (as of July 2019) CEO of the CFA Institute, Paul Smith. In our conversation, we cover some of Paul's challenges in running the CFA Institute during his almost 5-year tenure, the future of the investment management industry, his vision for the organization, why he thinks it is important to have a mandatory Continuing Professional Development re
#33 David Salem - A Deep Dive into Capital Allocation
#33 David Salem - A Deep Dive into Capital Allocation This interview is a true master class for anyone interested in capital allocation and manager selection. We had the great pleasure to speak to David Salem, the Co-Chairman of New Providence Asset Management, a firm that provides investment office solutions for endowments, foundations and family offices. David is also a contributor to Epsilon
#32 Iven Kurz – Passive Dynamic Investing
We had the pleasure to chat with Iven Kurz, founder and CEO of Evergreen GmbH. Evergreen is a German retirement focused Robo advisor. Before founding his own company, Iven was a total return fund manager for two of the biggest German Private Banks. The total return investing style Iven uses is called Passive Dynamic Investing, which is based on the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Theory and he used f
#31 Joseph Lau – How to Become a Financial Modelling World Champion
This week's episode is a treat to all of the excel geeks out there. We are delighted to share the conversation we had with Joseph Lau, the only 2-time Financial Modelling World Champion at the ModelOff competition. We cover many interesting topics, ranging from his experience competing at the ModelOff competition, common mistakes people make in financial modelling, and tips on how to excel (pun in
