Outside In with Jon Lukomnik

Ted Seides, CFA created Capital Allocators LLC to explore best practices in the asset management industry. He launched the Capital Allocators podcast in 2017 and the show reached ten million downloads in April 2022. Brunswick Group named it the top institutional investing podcast, and Barron’s , Business Insider , Forbes and Value Walk each named it among the top investing podcasts. Alongside the...

Jan van Eck, CEO of VanEck, is an innovator. entrepreneur and podcast enthusiast with firsthand knowledge of today’s markets and the complex web of information that investors encounter on a daily basis. Furthering VanEck’s mission to anticipate asset classes and trends, Mr. van Eck has created strategic beta, tactical allocation, emerging markets, and commodity-related investment strategies in mut...

Born Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz, by now much has been made of Negrito’s own unique story—his early years growing up in an orthodox Muslim household, the doomed major label deal that turned him off of the music industry altogether, the near-fatal car cash that permanently damaged his guitar playing hand—as well as the remarkable redemption arc that began in 2015, when he won the first ever NPR Tiny D...

Jonty Hurwitz is an artist, engineer, and entrepreneur. Heavily immersed in the world of tech and AI, he is also internationally recognised for his pioneering work in merging art and science. He deeply believes that our human relationships with technology are entering a new era and more than ever before, the ethics of our tools need to be at the heart of our work. On this episode of Outside In Jon...

Fiona Reynolds is the CEO of Conexus Financial. She served as the CEO of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) for over nine years. As part of her role in the UK, she was on the board of a number of organisations including UN Global Compact, Climate Action 100+, the UK Green Finance Institute, the Greening the Belt and Road Global Committee, and the Asset Owners Net Zero Alliance Fiona h...

Michael J. Abramowitz is president of Freedom House. Before joining Freedom House in February 2017, he was director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Levine Institute for Holocaust Education. He led the museum’s genocide prevention efforts and later oversaw its public education programs. He was previously National Editor and then White House correspondent for the Washington Post. He is a mem...

Barbara Zvan is the President and CEO of the University Pension Plan Ontario (UPP) and former Chief Risk and Strategy Officer for the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. Recognized as a leading voice on sustainable investing and a tireless ambassador for defined benefit pensions, Barbara brings institutional strength to complex challenges while forging new collaborative pathways for innovation and gro...

Peter McKillop is the founder of Climate & Capital Media, a mission-driven information platform exploring the business and finance of climate change. Peter founded Climate & Capital Media following a long career as a journalist at Newsweek and as a communications expert at financial institutions including BlackRock, KKR, UBS, JP Morgan and Bank of America. On this episode of Outside In Pet...

Karina is an independent director of the Italian multinational energy company, Eni. She also chairs the Governing Board of the Climate Governance Initiative and is a Governor of the CFA Institute where she chairs the ESG Working Group of the Investment Sub-Committee and serves on the Governance Committee. She is best known as a corporate governance expert but not many corporate governance experts...

Ambassador (Rtd) Howard Gutman is the Managing Director of The Gutman Group. His career has spanned the public and private sectors, both sides of the Atlantic and both sides of the political aisle, from K Street, to Silicon Valley, to Wall Street, to Hollywood, then to Brussels, the heart of the European Union and NATO, where he was dubbed by European press as “The Ambassador Who Makes Us Love Ame...

Jon Hale is Global Head of Sustainability Research at Morningstar, Inc. where he focuses on ESG thought leadership and product strategy. Jon discusses the cause for the recent explosion in ESG, the various strains of ESG and how investors should think about it. He outlines why it's not a foregone conclusion that we're going to get a more favorable permanent regulatory regime in the U.S. despite th...

Renaye works at the cutting edge of organized labor, public policy, and finance and her impact has been felt across all three. A former field organizer for the AFL-CIO, she is Deputy Director for the Service Employees International Union Strategic Initiatives Department, where she works with pension trustees who sit on 67 pension funds with collective assets under management of approximately a tri...

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex graduated from Oxford University and then worked for Morgan Stanley in investment banking (London) and fixed income sales and trading (New York). After a PhD in Finance from MIT Sloan as a Fulbright Scholar, he joined Wharton in 2007 and was tenured in 2013 shortly before moving to LBS. Alex’s research interests are in corporate f...

Ambassador (ret.) Norman Eisen is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings, executive chair of the States United Democracy Center , and a globally-recognized authority on law, ethics, and anti-corruption. He served as special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee for the Trump impeachment from February 2019 to February 2020. He is the author of A Case for the American People: The Unit...

Danielle Amato-Milligan has extensive experience as a strategic advisor to nonprofit organizations in the areas of arts and cultural organizations, including artist- endowed foundations, and private and public foundations, social justice, higher education, health and human services, environmental and international relief. She advises their boards and leadership on a wide range of issues, including...

Joe Nocera is one of the most accomplished business journalists in the US. He has been a business columnist at Esquire, GQ, Fortune, Bloomberg, NPR and the New York times. Joe is the host and writer of The Shrink Next Door, which was the No.1 podcast in America in 2019. He's the author of a number of books, including "A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class," "Good Guys...

Barry Ritholtz, co-founder, chairman and CIO of Ritholtz Wealth Management talks with Jon about making ADHD his superpower, the reforms he would make if he were king of the capital markets and his strategy for approaching decisions in life. Barry explains why he thinks the US public is not nearly as polarized as the parties and casts some light on our blind spots.

Matt Hougan, CIO at Bitwise, talks to Jon about his path from minor league baseball mascot to a major league role in Crypto, his gift for making the complicated simple and why NFTs may be the biggest single idea that he's encountered in his professional life.

Jim McRitchie, corporate governance advocate, publisher of CorpGov.net and rebel with a cause talks to Jon about growing up in a segregated, sexist, economically isolated bubble, wealth inequality and how he and a small group of passionate, like-minded gadflies are changing corporate America one shareholder proposal at a time.

Berknell Financial founder Dasarte Yarnway talks to Jon about his childhood in the projects of Oakland, California, the son of Liberian immigrant parents, and how losing his father at a young age instilled a drive in him that made him one of the top high school running backs in the state of California and helped land him at UC Berkeley. When injuries cut his football career short, he pivoted into...

Vanity Fair contributing editor Bethany McLean is one of the world's most respected financial journalists. She has written for Slate and Fortune, where she published a 2001 article critical of the Wall Street darling Enron, helping to eventually expose the company as a fraud. She is the author of The Smartest Guys in the Room , also about the Enron scandal, All the Devils Are Here , about the 2008...

Nic Harcourt joins Outside In this week to talk about his long-spanning career as a radio DJ, during which he's launched the careers of artists including Adele, Coldplay, the Arctic Monkeys, Lana Del Rey and more. The New York Times called him "the country's most important disc jockey and a genuine bellwether," and he is currently the host of "The NIc Harcourt Morning Show" on public radio station...

Reggie Browne is a renowned financial market innovator, known as an early and influential champion of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Here, Reggie talks to Jon about whether ETFs have become too much of a good thing, the ways that the markets have contributed to systemic inequity and what needs to change, and his passions as a collector of African American art and work on the boards of multiple arts...

Stanley Bergman is the CEO of Henry Schein, the world's largest provider of healthcare products, services, and technology to office-based doctors and dentists. It sometimes flies under the radar, but shouldn't. Stan Bergman took over as CEO of a family-run dental distribution company with revenues of $225 million in 1989, roughly a third of a century ago, and today it has revenues and a market cap...

Daniel Roy is one of the world's leading close-up magicians and an expert card manipulator. He's performed on Penn and Teller's "Fool Us" and at Hollywood's premiere Magic Castle. Roy, 25, is also an astute student of neurobiology who has presented at the American Neuropsychiatric Association's annual conference. Listen as he talks to Jon about his origin story, magic, and the human ability to sel...