Masters in Business

On a special 500th-episode edition of Masters in Business, Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jenny Johnson, the president and chief executive officer of Franklin Templeton. Johnson joined the firm in 1988 and held leadership roles in all its major divisions, including investment management, distribution, technology, operations and high-net-worth, before becoming CEO in February 2020....

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Ilana Weinstein, who is founder and chief executive officer of The IDW Group LLC, an executive search firm focused on placing senior hedge fund and business professionals across the investment landscape. Weinstein is also a frequent guest on Bloomberg and CNBC television programs, discussing market trends and the hedge fund universe. She holds an MBA...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Peter Borish, who is chairman and chief executive officer of Computer Trading Corporation, an investment and advisory firm whose largest consulting client is the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Borish was previously founding partner and right-hand man to Paul Tudor Jones at Tudor Investment Corporation, where he was director of research fo...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Gretchen Morgenson, senior financial reporter for the NBC News investigative unit. A former stockbroker and alumna of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, she won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her “trenchant and incisive” reporting on finance. She and coauthor Joshua Rosner recently published “These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs...

A special live edition of Bloomberg Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz from the Bloomberg Hedge Fund Startup Conference. Barry discusses the current environment for hedge fund launches with IDW Group Founder and Chief Executive Officer Ilana D. Weinstein, Woodline Partners Co-Chief Investment Officer Mike Rockefeller, Fernbridge Capita Management Founder Brennan Diaz and Knighthead Capital Ma...

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Mathieu Chabran, who is the co-founder of Paris-based Tikehau Capital, which has €39.7 billion ($42.5 billion) in assets under management. Prior to co-founding Tikehau in 2004, Chabran worked at Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch; he graduated from ESCP Business School and Sciences Po Aix. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with entrepreneur Ramit Sethi, who is the founder and chief executive officer of the online education platform I Will Teach You to Be Rich (IWT), which attracts more than 1 million readers a month. Sethi is also the host of the Netflix series "How To Get Rich," which is based on his his New York Times bestselling book "I Will Teach You to Be Rich"; he als...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with entrepreneur John Hope Bryant, who is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Operation HOPE Inc., the US's largest not-for-profit provider of financial literacy and economic empowerment tools. Described as the "Conscience of Capitalism," Bryant is also chairman and chief executive officer of John Hope Bryant Holdings, Bryant Group Ventu...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Robyn Grew, who was recently named CEO of the world’s biggest publicly traded hedge fund, Man Group, which has $145 billion in assets under management. As president, she was responsible for corporate sustainability and responsible investing; Man Solutions and Man FRM; central trading, funds treasury and bank relationships; operations; financial crime...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Howard Lindzon, who is co-founder and managing partner of the early stage seed investment fund Social Leverage. Lindzon also cofounded the social network Stocktwits, which pioneered the "cashtag" and today has over 6 million monthly unique visitors; in addition, he has written several books and hosts the podcast "Panic With Friends." See omnystudio.c...

Coming soon: When nerdy gamer Sam Bankman-Fried rocketed to fame as the world’s richest 29-year-old, he pledged to donate his billions to good causes. But then his crypto exchange FTX collapsed Billions of dollars were missing, and Sam was in handcuffs. Those who knew him were left wondering — who was Sam really? A well-meaning billionaire who made a mistake? Or a calculating con man? From Wondery...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Julian C. Salisbury, who is chief investment officer of asset and wealth management at Goldman Sachs. Salisbury is also a member of the management committee and the board of advisers for Launch With GS, Goldman Sachs’s $1 billion investment strategy grounded in the data-driven thesis that diverse teams drive strong returns. See omnystudio.com/listene...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Benjamin Clymer and Jeffery Fowler of Hodinkee, the preeminent website for enthusiasts of modern and vintage wristwatches. Clymer, who’s been dubbed “The High Priest of Horology,” founded the site in 2008 and is currently executive chairman; Fowler was appointed Hodinkee’s chief executive officer in 2022. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Brian Hamburger, who is the founder, president and chief executive officer of the business and regulatory compliance consultancy MarketCounsel Consulting, as well as the founder and chief counsel of the Hamburger Law Firm, a boutique law firm which focuses on investment and securities industry matters. Hamburger is also the president of MarketCounsel...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Joseph Baratta, who has served as global head of private equity at Blackstone – the world’s largest alternative asset manager, with $975 billion in assets under management – since 2012. Baratta, who joined the firm in 1998, is also a member of the board of directors and management committee, and serves on many of the firm’s investment committees. See...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Aswath Damodaran, who holds the Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education at New York University's Stern School of Business. A nine-time "Professor of the Year" winner at NYU, Damodaran teaches classes in corporate finance and valuation to MBA students. He has also written several books on corporate finance and equity valuation and has published wi...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Ken Kencel, who is president and chief executive officer of Churchill Asset Management, a private credit firm with $46 billion in assets under management that was the top US private equity lender in the 2022 PitchBook league tables and was named 2022 Lender Firm of the Year by The M&A Advisor. Churchill Asset Management is an affiliate of Nuveen,...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with former hedge fund manager Dominique Mielle, author of 2021’s “Damsel in Distressed: My Life in the Golden Age of Hedge Funds.” Mielle spent two decades as a partner and senior portfolio manager at Canyon Capital Advisors and was named one of the “50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds” by the Hedge Fund Journal and E&Y. She currently serves on the board...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Cliff Asness, who cofounded AQR Capital Management — which has $100 billion in assets under management — and serves as its chief investment officer. Also an active researcher, Asness has contributed to publications such as The Journal of Portfolio Management, The Journal of Finance and The Journal of Financial Economics, and has received a variety of...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Richard Bernstein, the chief executive officer and chief investment officer of Richard Bernstein Advisors LLC, which manages $14.6 billion in assets. Bernstein, who was previously chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch, has been named to the Institutional Investor’s “All-America Research Team” 18 times and has been inducted into the Institution...

 Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Dr. Maria Vassalou, who is co-chief investment officer of multi-asset solutions at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Prior to her career in asset management, Dr. Vassalou was an associate professor of finance at Columbia Business School, which she joined in 1995 and where she established many of the investment principles she employs today. She earned...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with David Layton, who is the chief executive officer of Partners Group, a global private markets firm with more than $135 billion in assets under management. Layton, who joined Partners Group in 2005, leads the firm's executive team and global executive board and is also a member of the global investment committee. He was previously the head of Partners...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Mortimer “Tim” Buckley, who is chairman and chief executive officer of Vanguard. Previously, Buckley was Vanguard’s chief investment officer and chief information officer, overseeing the company’s internally managed stock, bond, and money market portfolios as well as its investment research and methodology. Vanguard is one of the world’s largest inve...