Financial Perspectives

Send us a message! On this episode of the CFA Society San Francisco Podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with Sanem Alkan, Sr. Advisor with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Sanem has led and developed a number of innovative ventures in several sectors, including finance, risk management, technology, and social impact. She has also held several board director and council member roles...

Send us a message! On this episode of the CFA Society San Francisco Podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with Will Brokaw, CFA, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Vesti Social, a social chat app for retail investors. Will is an avid social investor who saw a gap in retail investors’ ability to easily share, discover, and network trades through verified sources  - Vesti Social was created to help solve t...

Send us a message! On this episode of the CFA Society San Francisco Podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with Emi Yoshikawa, CFA, VP of Corporate Strategy and  Operations at Ripple. Emi is responsible for the company’s corporate strategy and business operations as well as joint venture partnerships. She also serves as a board member of MoneyTap, Inc., which builds a next-gen payments platform...

Send us a message! On this episode of the CFA Society San Francisco Podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with Matthew O'Hara, CFA, Head of Portfolio Management and Research at Unison. Matt is responsible for all investments at Unison Investment Management and its associated research. Prior to Unison, Matt was running the LifePath series of funds at BlackRock. LifePath is a multi-asset (ta...

Send us a message! On this episode of the CFA Society San Francisco Podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with Elsie Fletcher, CFA, a C-suite financial services leader with expertise in institutional and high net worth investment management. Elsie currently serves on the Board of Directors for Prime Genomics and Clear-Cut Medical as well as on the Advisory Committee of Access Alts Asia. She ser...

Send us a message! On this special episode of the CFA Society San Francisco Podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with Society Board members, Joyce Li and Jane Leung, and CEO, Anne O’Brien.  Along with serving as President of the Society Board, Joyce Li currently is Co-Chair - Diversity & Inclusion and Portfolio Manager with Matthews Asia. Society Treasurer, Jane Leung, is the Chief Investm...

Send us a message! On this episode of the CFA Society San Francisco Podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with Devin Banerjee, financial journalist and editor at large at LinkedIn.  Previously, Devin oversaw Bloomberg’s coverage of North American dealmaking, including the private equity industry, corporate M&A, capital markets, and shareholder activism. Listen to the full interview, where y...

Send us a message! In this month’s Meet a Member podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with Lauren Mathias, Senior Vice President and Non-U.S. Equity Investment Consultant in Callan’s Global Manager Research group.  Lauren also oversees the Callan Connects program, which enhances Callan’s coverage of emerging managers and diverse-, women-, and disabled-owned firms. She is co-chair of Callan’s I...

Send us a message! Hear from the incoming CFA Society San Francisco president in this special edition of our podcast. Joyce Li, CFA is Co-Chair - Diversity & Inclusion and Portfolio Manager with Matthews Asia. Hear her story and join us in welcoming the 2021-2022 CFA Society San Francisco Board of Directors. If you'd like to learn more about the show, have a topic or speaker to suggest, o...

Send us a message! In this month’s Meet a Member podcast, we had the pleasure of speaking with Saira Malik, Chief Investment Officer for Nuveen’s $420 billion Global Equity Division. Saira is a CFA charterholder and CFA Society San Francisco member. She is a frequent guest on many financial news programs such as CNBC, Bloomberg and Fox Business and has been ranked as one of the “Top 100 Most Influ...

Send us a message! This week, Tanya Suba–Tang, membership manager with CFA Society San Francisco, sits down with Paul Perez, emeritus Senior Advisor at Delegate Advisors LLC. Paul is a CFA Society San Francisco member and has been named on Hispanic Business Magazine's list of “The 100 Most Influential Hispanics”. Listen in on this interview, where they discuss how Paul’s humble background and...

Send us a message! In this week's Meet a Member segment, we had the pleasure of speaking with fellow member and industry leader, Sylvia Kwan, CFA, CAIA. In this conversation between Sylvia and Tanya, they discuss various topics from diversity in the industry, workplace changes due to the COVID pandemic to the future of the investment community. Listen to the full interview here. If you'd...