Masters in Business

Barry Ritholtz speaks with Victor Khosla, Founder and CIO of Strategic Value Partners. Prior to establishing SVP in 2001, Victor served as President of Cerberus Capital and built and managed one of the top proprietary trading businesses at Merrill Lynch. He is a member of the Management Council at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and sits on the board of Pratham USA. On this epis...

Can money buy you happiness? How much money is too much? Does wealth offer diminishing returns? In this episode, Barry Ritholtz is joined by Brian Portnoy to explore these questions. Portnoy has held senior investment roles throughout the hedge fund and mutual fund industries. He is also the author of the bestselling books, ‘The Geometry of Wealth’ and ‘The Investors Paradox.’  Each week, “At the...

Barry Ritholtz speaks to David Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group. Prior to forming the firm in 1987, David practiced law and served as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, as well as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board at the John F. Kennedy Center...

How should investors manage bond duration in an era of rising – and soon likely falling – interest rates?   The challenge is that the longer the duration your bonds are, the higher yield usually is, but the more vulnerable those bonds are to rising rates. When rates fall, long-duration bonds go up (shorter duration much less). There are many ways investors can take advantage of changing interest r...

When a team of video game developers notice that their files have been moved, they find themselves in a race against time to save the company from ransomware. Adam Marrè, CISO at Arctic Wolf, explains how this cyberattack traced back to a single phishing email and unpacks the ramifications for gaming companies. Then David Adrian from Chrome lays out how leaders can use unphishable authentication m...

Barry Ritholtz speaks with Mike Wilson, Chief Investment Officer and Chief US Equity Strategist at Morgan Stanley. Prior to becoming CIO, Mike began his career with the firm in 1989 as an investment banker. He has since held various positions within Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Equity Division, including Head of Content Distribution for North American Equities. On this episode, Mike shares his e...

Buying a house in today's climate can be challenging. Interest rates are near the highest level in 20 years. Housing inventory is near record lows. So what's a potential home buyer to do? Jonathan Miller, President of Miller Samuel, joins Barry Ritholtz to discuss the best approach for purchasing a home today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Barry Ritholtz speaks to Heather Brilliant, chief executive officer of Diamond Hill Investment Group. Before joining the firm in 2019, she worked for First State Investments. She has also worked for Morningstar Inc., where she served as global head of equity and credit research before becoming CEO of Morningstar Australasia. She served on the board of the CFA Institute from 2013 to 2020 and was ch...

Fees matter more than you think. Over the long term, the difference between a few basis points can turn into real, big money. On this episode, Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analyst Eric Balchunas joins Barry Ritholtz to discuss how fees can significantly impact your portfolio. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Barry Ritholtz speaks to Ricky Sandler, the chief investment officer and the founder of Eminence Capital. Today, Eminence is a $7B global investment management organization. Prior to launching Eminence, Ricky was co-founder and co-general partner of Fusion Capital Management, LLC. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors to the University of Wisconsin Foundation and is a member of...

The Magnificent Seven, the Nifty Fifty, FAANG: Each of these are popular groups of companies investors erroneously believed they could “set & forget” But as history informs us, the list of once-great companies that dominated their eras and then declined is long. In this episode, Professor Aswath Damodaran of NYU Stern School of Business explains what a normal corporate life cycle is. He has wr...

Barry Ritholtz speaks to Mike Green, portfolio manager and chief strategist for Simplify Asset Management Inc. He previously served in the same roles for Logica Capital Advisers LLC. Prior to Logica, Michael managed macro strategies at Thiel Macro LLC; founded Ice Farm Advisors LP, a discretionary global macro hedge fund seeded by Soros Fund Management; and founded and managed the New York office...

The term 'ESG' gets thrown around in investing all the time. But, there's a better way to align your investments with your personal values. In this week's episode, Barry Ritholtz speaks with Ari Rosenbaum, principal at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, about how to tailor investments to your ideological preferences. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Barry Ritholtz speaks to Meir Statman, the Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University. Statman’s research has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and other publications. He is a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Portfolio Management, the Journal of Wealth Management, the Journal of Retirement, the Journal of Investment Consult...

Of all the many things Humans do brilliantly well, investing isn’t one of them.  As a group, we are easily excited, focused on the wrong things, and filled with unjustified overconfidence. In this episode, Dr. Daniel Crosby sits down with Barry Ritholtz to explain why when it comes to investing, “we are just not built for it.” Crosby is Chief Behavioral Officer at Orion Advisor Solutions, where he...

Barry Ritholtz speaks to Lakshman Achuthan, co-founder of the Economic Cycle Research Institute. Achuthan met his mentor, Geoffrey H. Moore, at Columbia University in 1990; they formed ECRI with Anirvan Banerji in 1996. He serves on the board of governors for the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. In 2004, he co-authored Beating the Business Cycle: How to Predict and Profit From Turning Poi...

Investing can be complicated. But what if there was a simple solution? On this episode of 'At the Money,' Barry Ritholtz talks to Dave Nadig about one simple approach to the matter. Nadig is the Financial Futurist for ETF Trends and ETF Database. He has been involved in researching, reporting and analyzing the investment management industry for more than 20 years. See omnystudio.com/listener for p...

Barry Ritholtz speaks to Natalie Wolfsen, chief executive officer of Orion, which provides technology and asset-management services to wealth-management firms, independent financial advisers and the enterprises that serve them. She is also a member of Orion’s board of directors. She previously served as CEO of AssetMark; she also worked for First Eagle Investment Management, Pershing, Charles Schw...

We focus most of our investing efforts on obtaining information. But is that where we generate the highest ROI? As it turns out, managing your behavior has a much greater impact on your portfoio than any single data point.    In this episode, Morgan Housel sits down with Barry Ritholtz to explain why behavior often beats knowledge. Housel is a partner at the Collaborative Fund and author of “The P...

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Barry Ritholtz speaks to Gregory Peters, co-chief investment officer of PGIM Fixed Income and a co-head of the firm's multisector team. Prior to joining PGIM in 2014, Peters was Morgan Stanley's global director of fixed income & economic research and chief global cross-asset strategist. He previously worked at Salomon Smith Barney and the US Treasury Department. Peters is a member of the Fixed...

We expect our investments to generate positive financial returns, but can they also have a positive societal effect? Can your capital make an impact? In this episode, Soraya Darabi sits down with Barry Ritholtz to explain Impact Investing,  Darabi is partner in the venture firm TMV. She has been an early investor in companies that went public such as FIGS, Casper, and CloudFlare, as well as startu...

Barry Ritholtz speaks to Matt Eagan, portfolio manager and head of the full discretion team at Loomis Sayles & Co. LP, where he is also a member of the board of directors. He joined Loomis Sayles in 1997 as a fixed income research analyst for the multisector fixed income team. Previously, Eagan was a senior fixed income analyst at Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. and a senior credit analyst at Ban...

Why is investing so hard? It's because our brains have been trained, over thousands of years, to trust our fear instincts. In this episode, Brian Portnoy sits down with Barry Ritholtz to explain why humans aren't built to be good investors. Portnoy has held senior investment roles throughout the hedge fund and mutual fund industries. He is also the author of the bestselling books, 'The Geometry of...

Barry Ritholtz speaks to Brian Klaas, associate professor of global politics at University College London and affiliate researcher at the University of Oxford. He is the author of five books, including Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters and Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us. Klaas writes the popular The Garden of Forking Paths Substack and created the award-winn...