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Andrew Perry is the creator of Macro Pillars, a macro research product servicing a bespoke selection of global banks, hedge funds, and sophisticated investors. He has over 35+ years of experience in markets, including as a Portfolio Manager at Tudor Investment Corporation under Paul Tudor Jones, and later as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Nomura. In this podcast, we discuss: The Five...

Tina Fordham is a  Geostrategist , Author and Advisor to board and C-Suite leaders on a mission to transform how leaders navigate the changing global environment. Her signature theses on the Geopolitics Supercycle, PQ (Political Quotient) and Vox Populi Risk have entered the popular lexicon, while the tools developed by Fordham Global Foresight have  demonstrated  how geopolitics can be integrated...

Phil  is the founder of Suttle Economics  –  a  leading research consultancy. Before that, he  held  senior  roles at Tudor , the Institute of International Finance (IIF), JP Morgan, Barclays, the New York  Fed   and World Bank. He was educated at Oxford University and lives in the US.  In the podcast, we talk about: The Oil Price Shock and "Negative Supply Curve" Impact   US Economic Stagnation a...

Nader i s Argus' Middle East editor, based in Dubai. Argus is a leading independent provider of global energy and commodity market intelligence. Nader has more than 15 years of experience covering oil and gas in the  region, and  today heads up the company's Middle East and OPEC coverage. Prior to moving to Argus in 2015, Nader spent five years with the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES) weekly in...

Rory Johnston is a Toronto-based oil market researcher, the founder of Commodity Context, a lecturer at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, as well as a Fellow with both the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines. Prior to founding Commodity Context, Rory led commodity economics research a...

Richard Schimel is the Co-Founder and Co-CIO of  Cinctive  Capital Management – a  leading multi -strategy alternative asset manager. Rich has over 30 years of experience in the investment management industry.  Pr ior to  Cinctive , Rich was Head of  Aptigon  Capital, a division of Citadel, where he served on the firm's Portfolio Committee.  Before  that , Rich founded and served as the CIO of Ste...

Dr. Tyler Goodspeed chaired the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 202-21. During his tenure on the council, he also chaired the Economic Policy Committee at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). From 2021 through 2023, Tyler was a Director and Chief Economist at Greenmantle, a New York and London-based macroeconomic and geopolitical consulting firm. The aut...

Tomasz  Nadrowski  is a portfolio manager at the  Amvest   Terraden  Critical Minerals Fund.  He was a  former Director at the World Economic Forum and Vice President of Business Development at AngloGold Ashanti, then the world's largest gold producer .   Tomasz  has spent over fifteen years managing commodity and mining equity portfolios for hedge funds and family offices across the U.S., Europe,...

Nader i s Argus' Middle East editor, based in Dubai. Argus is a leading independent provider of global energy and commodity market intelligence. Nader has more than 15 years of experience covering oil and gas in the  region, and  today heads up the company's Middle East and  OPEC  coverage. Prior to moving to Argus in 2015, Nader spent five years with the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES)  weekly...

Alex has 20 years of experience at the intersection of finance and data. He has been a global macro investor at firms like Bridgewater Associates and a proprietary volatility trader at Lehman Brothers. Prior to his career as a data-driven speculator, Alex received an MBA from Stanford Business School, an MPhil in Economics (Game Theory) from the University of Oxford, and a BA (Hons) in Economics f...

Raphaël Gallardo is Chief Economist within the Cross-Asset team at  Carmignac .  Carmignac  is a leading European invest ment management boutique  established  in 1989, with over EUR 40 bn in  assets under management. Raphaël joined them in 2018. He started his career in 1997 at BNP Paribas ,  where he spent ten years as  a  Quantitative Analyst within the Risk Department,  a Country-risk Economis...

Alex Gurevich is the founder of  HonTe  Investments. After earning a PhD in mathematics from the University of Chicago, he  leveraged  his passion for strategic gaming into a lucrative Wall Street career. He has been hailed by The Wall Street Journal as the star trader of J.P. Morgan, where he served as Managing Director in charge of global macro trading and, in 2020, was leading  HonTe's  macro s...

Marc Elovitz is Global Head of Investment Management Regulatory at McDermott Will & Schulte – a leading global law firm. Marc advises private fund managers on running their businesses consistent  with  all  relevant laws,  regulations  and legal requirements. Marc's  cutting-edge  work also covers the latest trends of interest to private funds, including blockchain technology and digital assets. H...

Sean  McGould  – the founder/CEO of the Lighthouse Group – a n approximately  $ 17  billion  investment management firm. Prior to Lighthouse, Sean was the Director of the Outside Trader Investment Program for Trout Trading Management Company. Before joining Trout, he worked for Price Waterhouse in auditing an d corporate finance. In this podcast we discuss:    The  Multi-Strategy   Investment Appr...

Srividya Jandhyala is a professor of Management at ESSEC Business School in Singapore. Her research focuses on global strategy, geopolitics, and international business. She is the author of the best-selling book ' The Great Disruption: How Geopolitics is Changing Companies, Managers, and Work ' .  Before ESSEC, she was a Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University. She also served on  the  faculty ...

Rory Johnston is a Toronto-based oil market researcher, the founder of Commodity Context, a lecturer at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, as well as a Fellow with both the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines. Prior to founding Commodity Context, Rory led commodity economics research a...

Phil  is the founder of Suttle Economics  –  a  leading research consultancy. Before that, he  held  senior  roles at Tudor , the Institute of International Finance (IIF), JP Morgan, Barclays, the New York  Fed   and World Bank. He was educated at Oxford University and lives in the US.  In the podcast, we talk about:   US  Labo u r  Market Dissonance Trump's "Elizabeth Warren" Populism The Product...

Robert is Founder, Chief Investment Officer and the Managing Partner of the $5bn EM fund, Gramercy. He founded Gramercy in 1998. Robert has 36 years of investment experience dedicated to emerging markets with a specialization in distressed opportunistic credit strategies. He is a member of Gramercy's Management Team and is Co-Chair of the Risk Management Committee. In this podcast we discuss: EM i...

Jay Pelosky is the founder of TPW Advisory. He has over 35 years of buy-side and sell-side financial market experience. Before going independent, Jay was at Morgan Stanley, where he was ranked #1 by Institutional Investor in Global Equity Strategy and Global Asset Allocation Strategy .  In this podcast, we discuss:   Tripolar World (TPW) - regional integration in Asia, Europe, and Americas. Global...

Ken   Tropin  is  a legend in the macro space. He is  the  Chairman  and the founder of G raham Capital Management (GCM)  - $ 20b n fund .  Ken  founded GCM in 1994 and has grown the firm into an industry leading alternative investment manager focusing on global macro discretionary and quantitative hedge fund strategies. Prior to founding GCM,  Ken  had  significant experience  in the alternative...

Sangeet Paul Choudary is the best-selling co-author of Platform Revolution and author of the new book Reshuffle. He has advised leadership teams at over 40 Fortune 500 companies—including Nestlé, ExxonMobil, Daimler, ING, and Booking.com—as well as pre-IPO tech firms. Sangeet currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and has spoken at global forums such as the...

David Dredge is the Chief Investment Officer of Convex Strategies, which is an agnostic value investor in volatility. David has over 30 years' experience managing risk across global markets. Prior to launching Convex Strategies, David served as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Artradis Fund Management in Singapore, where he was responsible for the fixed income aspects of their volatili...

Marc Rubinstein is author of Net Interest – a leading weekly newsletter on the world of finance. Before this, Marc spent ten years at leading hedge fund Lansdowne Partners, where he was a partner and portfolio manager. This was after he spent time on the sell-side working for Barclays Investment Bank (BZW), Schroders and then Credit Suisse, where he was head of the European banks research team. In...

Mark Farrington is a Global Macro and Geopolitical Strategist and author of the 'Watchtower Reports,' which cover topics ranging from geopolitical risk to Bank of Japan monetary policy to US dollar dynamics. He previously served as Managing Director and Portfolio Manager of the Macro Currency Group at Principal Global Investors, where he worked for fifteen years. Before that, he spent 17 years in...

David Samra   is a managing director of Artisan Partners – the $180bn global multi-asset investment platform. He is founding partner of the International Value Group, and portfolio manager of the Artisan International Value Fund, which he has managed since the portfolio's inception in September 2002. David has been nominated for the Morningstar International Stock Fund Manager of the Year Award si...