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Yesha Yadav is Associate Dean and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School. She is one of the world's leading experts on financial and securities regulation. Before Vanderbilt, Yesha worked as legal counsel with the World Bank and before that she practiced regulatory and derivatives law at Clifford Chance. This week's podcast covers key bankruptcies in crypto from Celsius to FTX, crypt...

Greg Lippmann is the Managing Founding Partner and the Chief Investment Office r of the $9.8bn asset management firm, LibreMax . Prior to founding LibreMax , Greg was head of all non-agency RMBS, ABS , and CDO trading globally at Deutsche Bank . His prescient call on the subprime crisis was immortalized in the book and film The Big Short . In the film, Gre g i s played by Ryan Gosling . In this po...

Charlie McElligott is the leading expert on all things positioning, flow, sentiment, and quant factors. He is a Managing Director and Cross-Asset Macro Strategist for the Global Markets Americas business at Nomura Securities International, with more than 15 years' experience in macro markets. Prior to joining Nomura, Charlie was Head of US Cross-Asset Macro Strategy at RBC Capital Markets. Before...

Dr Douglas Greenig is the CEO, CIO, and founder of Florin Court Capital, a systematic, trend-following asset manager uniquely broad in its focus on over 500 markets. Doug has over 25 years of experience in portfolio management and trading. Prior to founding Florin Court, Doug started in markets on Goldman Sachs' bond arbitrage proprietary desk through the late '90s after being hired as an Assistan...

Marc Goldwein is the Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, where he guides and conducts research on a wide array of topics related to fiscal policy and the federal budget. He works regularly with Members of Congress and their staffs on budget-related issues. In this podcast we discuss: the scale of US debt and deficit, how COVID impact...

This week we have a special podcast episode for you! Listen to the Macro Hive Pro Markets Webinar and hear the key views of our leading researchers on their respective markets.   This week, US macro expert Dominique Dwor-Frecaut reveals her outlook on the Fed (pre-FOMC), EM strategist Mirza Baig presents his new Emerging Markets Vulnerability and Scenario Analysis report, which reveals the countri...

Boris is one of the leading macro thinkers in the market. He is a managing director at Goldman Sachs. Before GS, he was partner and portfolio manager at Rokos Capital Management, Fortress, and Brevan Howard. Boris started his career on the sell-side which included working at UBS and Dresdner. Boris will be giving his personal opinions and not those of Goldman Sachs or any other organisations he is...

This episode is sponsored by  Masterworks ( www.masterworks.art/macrohive)   Professor Daniel Rock is an Assistant Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research is on the economic effects of digital technologies, with a particular emphasis on the economics of artificial intelligence. His research has been published in vari...

Marty co-founded Aspect Capital, which manages over $8bn in a range of systematic investment solutions .  He is the Research Director and oversees the Research Team responsible for generating and analysing fundamental research hypotheses for development of all Aspect's investment programmes. He currently serves on the Board of the National Futures Association and as Chair of the Oxford Physics Dev...

This episode is sponsored by Masterworks Jason Halliwell is the head of GMO's Systematic Global Macro team and a partner of the firm. GMO is a leading value-oriented asset manager with $60bn under management. Jason joined GMO in September 1999 from Westpac Investment Management where he spent three years in research and development of quantitative tactical asset allocation methods . In the podcast...

Barry Eichengreen , Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, is a former senior policy adviser at the International Monetary Fund. He is the author of many books, including most recently "In Defense of Public Debt ". He was also a presenter at the Fed's 2023 Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.  In the podcast, we talk about t he rise of debt around the w...

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 w hat will cause a recession, s urprise factory building, v iew on Euro-area and UK, and muc...

Dominique Dwor-Frecaut is a Senior Macro Strategist for Macro Hive based in Los Angeles. She has been producing alpha-generating trade ideas in FX and rates in EM and G10 at established and startup macro hedge funds in the US since 2011, including at Bridgewater. She has also produced in-depth analysis of central banks policies and procedures drawing on her experience at the New York Fed, the IMF...

Mustafa is a rates guru and member of the research team at Macro Hive. Before this, Mustafa was the Head of Rates, FX, and Derivatives at Voya Investments, where he helped manage $40 billion of assets. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director and Head of US Rates and MBS Strategy at Deutsche Bank. And in the 1990s, he was Co-head of Asset-Liability Management at Freddie Mac, where he was responsi...

Dr. Adrian Williams is the UK's first Professor of Sleep Medicine. Adrian graduated from University College, London, UK, and after a lectureship at The Cardiothoracic Institute, Brompton Hospital in 1975 took up an appointment at Harvard, Boston, USA, followed by an invitation to University of California (UCLA) in 1977. In 1985 Professor Williams became tenured Professor of Medicine at UCLA and co...

Denise Shull is the Founder and CEO of ReThink. In that role, she uses neuroscience and modern psychoanalysis to help clients become successful in investing, trading, and leading teams. She has consulted on the development of Showtime's  BILLIONS , coached Olympic champions, and often appears on  CNBC, Bloomberg  and in the  Wall Street Journal . Before ReThink, Denise worked in finance. She start...

Michael is a research fellow with the MIT Sloan School of Management's Initiative on the Digital Economy. His research focuses on the behavio u ral economics of models, prototypes, and metrics as for managing innovation risk and opportunity. He is author of the award-winning book The Innovator's Hypothesis and most recently Recommendation Engines . I n this podcast we discuss the interaction of te...

Bill Bernstein is a neurologist turned investment advisor. He is also the author of several books, including The Intelligent Asset Allocator, The Four Pillars of Investing, If You Can: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly, and The Delusion of Crowds. Bill has just come out with a new edition of The Four Pillars of Investing. In this podcast we discuss u nderstanding the business of investing, h ow...

Stephen is a faculty member at Yale University and former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia. He is the author of Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China and most recently Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives . In this podcast we discuss t he problem with US savings, w hy Biden continues Trump policies,    China's failed rebalancing, and much more.    Follo...

Sebastian is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). An experienced journalist and public speaker, Mallaby contributes to a variety of publications, including Foreign Affairs , the Atlantic , the Washington Post , and the Financial Times , where he spent two years as a contributing editor. He is the author of five books, including be...

Peter Stella is former head of the Central Banking and Monetary and Foreign Exchange Operations Divisions at the IMF. Currently, he provides macroeconomic policy advice and research to central banks, governments, and private clients in Asia, Europe, the United States and Latin America. In this podcast, we discuss f ramework for multi-asset investing, t he power of fiscal policy, p olitics of Fed,...

Trevor Greetham is Head of Multi Asset at Royal London Asset Management - a £150bn fund. Prior to joining Royal London in 2015, Trevor was asset allocation director for Fidelity Worldwide Investment, where he was responsible for implementing tactical investment decisions across a wide range of institutional and retail funds including the Fidelity Multi Asset Strategic Fund. In this podcast we disc...

Sean McGould – the founder/CEO of the Lighthouse Group – a $15bn 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 and corporate finance. In this podcast we discuss how accounting knowledge helps investing, e volution of hedge fund ind...

Bob Elliott is the Co-Founder of Unlimited, which uses machine learning to create index replication ETFs of alternative investments, like hedge funds . Prior to founding Unlimited, Bob was a Senior Investment Executive at Bridgewater Associates, where he served on the Investment Committee (G7) and led Ray Dalio's personal investment research team for nearly a decade . Bob holds a degree in History...

This episode is sponsored by  Kalshi. Inc Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000  ' for services to financial journalism .'  His latest book is  ' The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism ' .   I n this  podcast we discuss w hy write on democracy and capitalism now, w hy capitalism and democracy are lin...