Fiftyfaces Focus - Intersections
64 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago -This podcast series started as a special "capsule" focused on the 2021 Provost Election at Trinity College Dublin, which saw Linda Doyle elected as the first female provost in the institution's 429 year history. Inspired by Linda's focus on the intersection of Engineering and the Arts, we have curated a series of compelling podcasts with individuals who transcend traditional subject matter barriers. These people #choosetochallenge every day and listening to them will force you too to challenge your assumptions and see the enormous potential when we think outside the box and let ideas be cross-fertilized.
In February 2023 we are using this platform to promote our Love Series about the loves and passions that our guests hold outside or as their careers. We learn about what these passions can teach us and how they can make us the professionals we are.
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Episode 13: Vice Provost Orla Shiels of Trinity College Dublin - Micro-Credentials with Macro Impact
March 06, 2024 00:00 - 22 minutes - 31.2 MBProfessor Orla Sheils is the Vice-Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Trinity College Dublin as well as holding the position of Professor of Molecular Diagnostics. Prior to her appointment as Vice-Provost in 2021, Orla served as the Director of Medical Ethics in the School of Medicine, was the founding Director of the Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, and was Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences from 2019-2021. Most recently, Orla was elected as a member of Scientific Co...
Bonus Episode: Steven Eisner - After the Big Short: On Lessons for the Next Crisis, Emotion in Investing, Peacocks and Feather Dusters
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 25 minutes - 24 MBWe are delighted to bring you this lively bonus episode of a live conversation with the legendary Steven Eisman, who became famous for shorting Collateralized Debt Obligations in the run up to the 2008 financial crisis. He was featured in the film adaptation of The Big Short under the name of Mark Baum, and portrayed by Steve Carell. In September 2014, he joined Neuberger Berman in the Private Asset Management division. The group, run by partners including his parents, Elliott and L...
Episode 200: Monika Mantilla of Altura Capital: Reaching New Heights
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 30 minutes - 42 MBMonika Mantilla is the President and CEO of Altura Capital, which provides institutional investors and strategic partners a mechanism of investing in underserved markets including high-performing small and diverse businesses. She is also a Co-Founder and Managing Member of Small Business Community Capital. She is a Member of the Board of Directors of Los Cidrines, based in Puerto Rico and Florida as well as holding a number of other board roles. Our conversation captures Monika’s u...
Episode 206: Jenn Barry of Aaron Wealth Advisors: The Evolution of Wealth Advice and Focusing on What Really Matters
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBJennifer Barry is an investment advisor at Aaron Wealth Advisors in Chicago. She previously spent over 26 years at Citi, where she held a series of roles and focused on institutional equity sales most recently. We start with Jenn’s upbringing in the suburbs of Detroit and the culture of owning restaurants in her family that instilled in her the value of a dollar, and a habit of hard work. We follow her love of sports (and volleyball in particular), discuss the coaches and support t...
Episode 207: Brian Portnoy of Shaping Wealth: Funded Contentment and the Importance of Focusing on The Who
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBBrian Portnoy is the founder of Shaping Wealth, a learning technology platform transforming the human experience of money. It combines science and story to show people how to underwrite a meaningful life, and is the source of the term “funded contentment. He previously led investor education across a series of investment firms and prior to that was head of manager selection at a Chicago-based fund of hedge funds. Our conversation starts with a quick summary of Brian’s background, h...
Episode 208: Betsy Cohen of Cohen Circle: Creating Impact in Fintech and Beyond
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 34 minutes - 32.5 MBBetsy Cohen has built financial businesses for her whole career. She is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Cohen Circle, a growth stage investment firm focused on the fintech and impact spaces. She was previously CEO at The Bancorp Bank, which she founded in 2000 and previously worked at Jefferson Bank for 26 years. She sits on numerous boards and has received several awards being named a Forbes 2022 Most Powerful Self-Made Woman, 25 outstanding women bankers and many more. Betsy is E...
Episode 209: Paul Guilliotti of Richmond and Wandsworth Councils: From Pooling to a League 2 Football Teams - The Life and Times of a Real Life Ted Lasso
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBPaul Guilliotti is Assistant Director – Financial Services – at Richmond and Wandsworth Councils. He has had a long career in local government and is a frequent participant in discussions around leveling up and LGPS pooling. Our conversation starts with Paul’s childhood where he spent some time in Zambia during his early school years. We speak about any take-aways from that time and then dig into the origins of his unusual name a little. We then trace his long years of service in...
Episode 210: Colin Robertson, Independent Investment Advisor: From Game Theory to Risk Management and the Importance of Nuance
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 40 minutes - 37.9 MBColin Robertson is an independent advisor to two LGPS funds – London Borough of Tower Hamlets and London Borough of Harrow, within a portfolio career that he has had since 2013. He previously held the role of Global Head of Asset Allocation for Aon Hewitt and previously at Mercury Asset Management. He has extensive experience in working with a wide range of institutional clients. In this podcast we go on a journey from Scotland to the University of California – Berkeley around the ...
Episode 211: Andy Ayim, MBE: Setting the Standard at Angel Investing School
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBAndy Ayim, MBE is an investor and founder based in the UK, and runs an Angel Investing School designed to “teach people how to invest small tickets in start-ups effortlessly.” He has run the School since January 2020, and is a venture partner and board member of numerous technology companies. Passionate about financial education and entrepreneurship, he has held been entrepreneur in residence at accelerators such as Entrepreneur First, and OneTech and spent time as Managing Director...
Episode 212: Caroline Lovelace of Preserver Partners: Learning to Take Risk and Preparing for Plan B
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBCaroline Lovelace is Founding Partner at Rose Hill Park Alternative Asset Managers, as well as Preserver Partners as CIO and Co-Portfolio Manager. Preserver is diverse-owned and Memphis-based. It runs a multi-strategy fund that invests through external managers. She has had an extensive career in researching and investing in hedge funds and in promoting emerging private equity and hedge fund investment programs. Our conversation starts with her upbringing and academic career and th...
Episode 213: Cathie Wood of ARK Investment Management: Going Back to the Future with AI
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBCathie Wood is CEO of ARK Investment Management LLC (“ARK”). Prior to ARK, Cathie spent twelve years at AllianceBernstein as Chief Investment Officer of Global Thematic Strategies where she managed $5 billion. Cathie joined Alliance Capital from Tupelo Capital Management, a hedge fund she co-founded which, in 2000, where she managed $800 million in global thematic strategies. Prior to her tenure at Tupelo Capital, she worked for 18 years with Jennison Associates as Chief Economist, ...
Episode 214: Claudia Buffini of Schroders: Defying Expectations to Deliver Impact
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 26 minutes - 25.4 MBClaudia Buffini is Corporate Responsibility Advisor to the Chief of Staff at Schroders. In this role she supports Schroders on delivering its purpose –whilst being a sustainable business, addressing The Sustainable Development Goal 10, ‘Promoting Equalities’. She previously worked as a communications consultant in the branding industry to help companies articulate their values and purpose to both internal and external stakeholders. Her prior roles include a royal charity, a global w...
Episode 215: Debbie Fielder of Flintshire County Council: Local Vision/National Impact
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBDebbie Fielder is deputy head of Clwyd Pension Fund at Flintshire County Council, where she has spent over 27 years. She is a leading voice on the LGPS investment circuit having been an early adopter of broad diversification and a founding member of the Welsh Pensions Partnership. Our conversation traces her start in local government and finance functions and how this led to a role in pensions. We speak about her early mentors and the process and advice that led to Flintshire bein...
Episode 216: Paula Horn of Brookfield Asset Management: Credit and Problem Solving
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBPaula Horn is Chief Investment Officer of the public securities group of Brookfield Asset Management. She has had an extensive career in investing, which has spanned investment grade credit, credit derivatives and other public investing. She holds a number of investment committee and Trustee roles. Our conversation starts with her upbringing in an Italian American family in the suburbs of Boston, where she was the first member of her family to graduate with a four year undergraduat...
Episode 217: Francois Bourdon of Nordis Capital: Sustainable Investing for a Changing World
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MBFrancois Bourdon is Managing Partner of Nordis Capital, based in Montreal. He is also Managing Partner in Sustainable Market Strategies, an independent investment strategy research service tracking global developments in ESG/impact-investing worldwide. He was formerly Chief Investment Officer at Fiera Capital. Our conversation starts with Francois’s life long obsession with data and statistics, and how this ultimately led him to a life in numbers. We cycle through his investment c...
Episode 218: Melanie Pickett of Northern Trust: Leadership Constants in a Changing Asset Management World
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBMelanie Pickett is Executive VP and Head of Asset Owners, Americas at Northern Trust, based in the Chicago area. She oversees the Alternative Asset Servicing Group and directs the firm’s strategy , growth and delivery of all firmwide products for asset owners and allocators in the America’s region. She was named 2021 Top 40 Women in Fintech and the 2021 Global Banking & Finance US Business Woman of the Year. She previously was Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of Emory ...
Episode 219: Ben Phillips: Looking into the Crystal Ball for the Asset Management Industry of the Future
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 39 minutes - 54.5 MBBen Phillips was Head of Asset Management Global Advisory Services at Broadridge Financial Solutions, based in New York, at the time of recording. He has recently announced his move to Oliver Wyman He has had a long background in consulting at firms such as Casey, Quirk, Deloitte and Cerulli Associates and has focused for much of his career on the dynamics and evolution of the asset management industry. I asked Ben here to let us look over his shoulder into his crystal ball to cha...
Episode 220: Julia Kwamya of Tikehau Capital: On the Path to Attitude, Belief and Determination
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBJulia Kwamya is an associate at Tikehau Capital, the global alternative asset manager, based in NYC. She has trained as an actor, musician and voiceover artist and has released her first album “Feel Good about Feeling Bad”. We are featuring songs from this album on this entire Series 5 of 2023. She has been Creator in Residence at Kickstarter, as well as a casting assistant among other roles in the entertainment industry. She studied economics at Pepperdine University. We start...
Episode 221: Laura Langton of J M Finn: Challenges in the Atlantic and Beyond
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 28 minutes - 26.8 MBWe have brought you this story to showcase an extraordinary physical challenge – the world’s toughest row – that one of our own – investment manager Laura Langton – is about to embark upon. We examine what motivates a person to take on something so extreme and so obviously strenuous and physically taxing. We look at the preparation and mental journey that is involved, and ask what it teaches her and how she brings these learnings into the workplace. Laura Langton an investment mana...
Episode 222: Bruno Kaiser - From the Old Economy to the New - a Tour through Finance in Metals, Mining and Digital Health
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBBruno Kaiser is CFO at Smile CDR Inc, a digital health company based in Toronto. He previously spent over 20 years in a series of investment banking leadership roles with a particular focus on the Metals and Mining Sector. We were classmates at INSEAD from 1999-2000. Our conversation takes a journey from the old economy to the new economy – starting with Bruno’s upbringing in Canada, his path into investment banking and ultimately the field of metals and mining. We discuss valuatio...
Episode 223: Geeta Kapadia of Fordham University: Channeling Student Ideas at a University Endowment
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 27 minutes - 26.1 MBGeeta Kapadia is Chief Investment Officer at Fordham University, a role she has held since August 2022. She was previously Associate Treasurer and Director of Investments at Yale New Haven Health where she headed a 5 person investment team, and prior to that had a range of roles in investment consulting and other financial roles. Our conversation traces her early college years, which saw her consider a health care career, and then pivot to finance. It also took on a lot of global o...
Episode 224: Apurva Schwartz of Harding Loevner: Turning the Lens on Investment Company Culture
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBApurva Schwartz is a portfolio specialist at Harding Loevner LP. She was previously a principal at Rocaton Investment Advisors, where she was a senior member of the investment team. Prior to that she held a series of roles in equity analysis and investing. Our conversation starts with her serendipitous start in finance and how that experience of picking stocks drove her to launch her own hedge fund. Her interest then expanded to analyzing managers themselves and a career in investme...
Episode 225: Kate Fox of Baillie Gifford: A Recipe for Positive Change
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBKate Fox is an Investment Manager at Baillie Gifford based in Edinburgh, where she leads the impact strategy Positive Change and is a Partner at the Firm. Our conversation traces her career journey, explores the meaning of “positive change” within an investment context and examines the way to develop a successful career in portfolio management. We start with Kate’s upbringing in a small village near Aberdeen and the love of maths and physics that led to finance as a possible career...
Episode 226: Katie Stitch of W Capital: Primary Thoughts on Secondary Markets
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 30 minutes - 29.5 MBKatie Stitch is a partner at W Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in the NYC area that provides secondary liquidity solutions to private company shareholders and to PE/VC investment firms. She has held a number of Board roles and started her career as an analyst in investment banking. Our conversation tracks her education at U Penn and her discovery of the world of secondary investments. We then do a deep dive into the burgeoning area of secondaries – covering the evolut...
Episode 227: Saira Malik of Nuveen: Investing in Markets and In Oneself - A Multi-generational Proof Statement
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBSaira Malik is Chief Investment Officer at Nuveen, a TIAA company. She is an active voice on social media, regularly posting videos on LinkedIn containing market related and career related content. She recently celebrated her 20th anniversary at Nuveen. We start by exploring Saira’s own background, which starts with her grandmother’s determination to study medicine, even though that was not a typical route for women at that time. She succeeded and served as an inspiration for her g...
Episode 228. Shari Greco Reiches: Empowering Women in Charge in Wealth Management
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBShari Greco Reiches is founder of Rappaport Reiches Capital Management a firm designed to help clients navigate their most crucial financial decisions. She has a particular focus on “Women in Charge” and is active in a number of affinity groups and holds a number of board roles, including previously ISBI, the Illinois State Board of Investments. She is the author of the book “Maximize your Return on Live” and podcast host. Our conversation starts with tracing Shari’s own childhood ...
Episode 229: Sinead Faughnan of UBS Private Wealth: Making it Count - Intergenerational Wealth Transfer and Celebrating Milestones
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBSinead Faughnan has worked as a financial advisor with UBS for the past 17 years. She is focused in particular on inter-generational wealth transfer. We start by discussing Sinead’s rich Irish roots, her parents were originally from County Kerry and she herself was born in Ireland and moved to the US when she was three years old. She discusses her upbringing in Yonkers and the values that her parents’ work ethic instilled in her. When it came to her own career, she was driven to be...
Episode 230: John Teahan of Redwheel: Climate Engagement without Reinventing the Wheel
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBJohn Teahan is a portfolio manager at Redwheel, which is focused on value oriented UK and global equity funds where he leads on engagement and responsible investing. The firm was formerly known as RWC Partners. Our conversation starts with John’s early life on a farm, and the resolute work ethic that that instilled in him. His college education took him into Bank of Ireland asset management and eventually London. There was a detour out of finance into a media role which saw him vi...
Episode 231: Jane Buchan Co-Founder of PAAMCO, Founder of Martlet Asset Management: Notes from the Room Where it Happened
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MBJane Buchan is CEO of Martlet Asset Management, based in Newport Beach CA. She was one of the co-founders of Pacific Alternative Asset Management in 2000, which grew to $32 bn n AUM under her leadership. She was been a chair of the Board of CAIA as well as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and has a number of Board roles. Jane’s career straddles academic life and an entrepreneurial and business one, and she describes how her time as ...
Episode 196: Duncan MacInnes of Ruffer: The Art of Mini-Max Regret
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 34 minutes - 32.2 MBDuncan MacInnes is an Investment Director at Ruffer LLP, where he has spent over a decade. He previously worked in wealth management. I have enjoyed listening to Duncan discuss positioning and multi-asset insights on the conference circuit and wanted to take this opportunity to discuss his views on the current macro backdrop as well as the state of play in finance circles as we wrestle with failing banks and what this means for investors. We start our conversation with a run throug...
Episode 197: Libby Cantrill of PIMCO: The intersection of Policy, Politics, Performance and Professionalism
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBLibby Cantrill is a managing director in PIMCO’s portfolio management group. In her role, she analyzes policy and political risk for the firm’s Investment Committee and leads U.S. policymaker engagement and policy strategy for the firm. She also works closely with PIMCO’s Global Advisory Board, led by former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2007, she served as a legislative aide in the House of Representatives and also worked in the investment banking di...
Episode 198: Cathy Ulozas: CIO at Drexel University: Recruiting an Investment Office Towards a University's Mission
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBCathy Ulozas is Chief Investment Officer at Drexel University where she has just celebrated her 13th anniversary as CIO. She has had a long career in asset management, including stints as a bond trader and portfolio manager. We start at the beginning of that career, trace its twists and turns and discover some of the unexpected areas that she found intense professional growth. We start with her time in insurance and move to what she learned as a bond trader and the camaraderie sh...
Episode 199: Tory Hyndman of Charta Partners: Putting Human Capital at the Forefront
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 33 minutes - 46 MBTory Hyndman is a Partner at Charta Partners. She has had a career of 25 years in executive search focused on investment management, having spent time at Heidrick & Struggles as well as David Barrett Partners, where she established the London office and wider EMEA business. She is passionate about educating women about careers in the City and is a volunteer for Founders4Schools as well as Maths4Girls as well as an Ambassador for The Diversity Project. Our conversation starts with T...
Episode 201: Sonali Wilson of Wellington Management: A Legendary Industry Networker Encourages Women Across All Borders
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MBSonali Patel Wilson is Managing Director and Director of Alternatives, Americas at Wellington Management where she is based in the New York City area. She sits on the investment committee of the Harry and Jeanette Foundation in Baltimore and she is the trustee of EWAAB Encouraging Women Across All Borders, which helps college aged women and non-binary individuals build their confidence to enter STEM and finance fields. She previously held various positions at PIMCO focused on accoun...
Episode 202: David Semmens of Cadro: Riding the Fintech Wave of more Interactivity and Personalization
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBDavid Semmens is Chief Investment Officer at Cadro and an External Investment Committee Member at Wealthify where he was previously CIO. He holds additional Investment Committee and advisory roles and is an adjunct lecturer at Heriot-Watt University. Our conversation starts with David’s path into the world of investment which took him around various European cities and ultimately to Edinburgh where he decided to settle. We speak about the impact of Fintech on the way that wealth is...
Episode 203: Tom Raber of Alvine Capital: Making the Sale and Reading the Room
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBTom Raber is the founder and Managing Director of London-based Alvine Capital, a reverse enquiry solutions firm that Tom founded in 2005, with a particular focus on finding solutions for institutional investors in alternative assets. Originally from Sweden, he previously held leadership roles at Key Asset Management and a series of investment banks. We start by discussing Tom’s path and education and the determination that he showed to get a job on “Wall Street” where he ultimate...
Episode 204: Christine Reed of Ninety One: Emerging Market Debt Investing - Learning to Take Risk on the Frontier
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 39 minutes - 36.7 MBChristine Reed is an analyst on the Fixed Income team at Ninety One covering Latin American sovereign and currency markets. Based in New York, Christine is responsible for all Latin America coverage and supports the alpha decision-making process across investment capabilities. She previously worked at Goldman Sachs Asset and Citigroup. Our conversation starts with Christine’s first foray into finance and how she found herself fitting on a trading floor. We then trace her path into ...
Episode 205: Howard Fischer of Gratitude Railroad: Refocusing the Intention of Capitalism as a Force for the Greater Good
January 03, 2024 00:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBHoward Fischer was the original founder of Basso Capital hedge fund and the co-founder of the Gratitude Railroad initiative in 2013. He is now the Chairman Emeritus of Basso Capital and “Chief Evangelist” at The Gratitude Railroad. The Gratitude Railroad is an initiative that unites 9 “tracks” or different concepts using capitalism to solve a social or environmental problem. Our conversation starts by tracing Howard’s route into finance and some of the serendipity and chance that l...
Episode 12: Episode 232: Matt Sherwood of Pothos Partners: Carbon Emission Allowance Trading and Embracing the Green Economy
December 22, 2023 00:00 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBIn this podcast we return to a former guest, Matt Sherwood, whom we featured in an earlier podcast in this series (see https://www.fiftyfaceshub.com/157-matthew-sherwood-ph-d-of-wevidit-media-determination-vision-and-the-power-of-reframing/) in order to catch up with his new venture, Pothos Partners. The name comes from the golden pothos plant which sequesters carbon particularly efficiently among plants. It is also a resilient plant that is difficult to eliminate. The firm will be...
Episode 11: Linda Doyle - 45th Provost of Trinity College Dublin - Building an AI Empowered University with Community at its Core
December 06, 2023 00:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBLinda Doyle was officially installed as the 45th Provost of Trinity College Dublin in August 2021. She is the first female Provost in the institution's over 430 year history and we profiled her in the run up to that election (see podcast here: https://www.fiftyfaceshub.com/linda-doyle-leadership-as-service-and-engineering-change/) Now two years on, we wanted to check in with Linda as to how those first two years of her 10 year tenure have gone, and to discuss her priorities and out...
Episode 10: David Hilton: Lessons and Learnings from a Life in Politics and the LGPS
October 03, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBDavid Hilton is currently council member at Sunninghill & Ascot Parish Council. He was previously an elected representative for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead representing Ascot, where he was Lead Member. He was lead member for finance on the council and involved in the pension fund panel, which he sat on for 16 years. Prior to his role in local government he worked in industry. Our conversation traces David’s early years and what drove his decision to enter politics...
Episode 9: Debbie Fielder of Clwyd Pension Fund at Flintshire County Council - local vision/national impact
September 26, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBDebbie Fielder is deputy head of Clwyd Pension Fund at Flintshire County Council, where she has spent over 27 years. She is a leading voice on the LGPS investment circuit having been an early adopter of broad diversification and a founding member of the Welsh Pensions Partnership. Our conversation traces her start in local government and finance functions and how this led to a role in pensions. We speak about her early mentors and the process and advice that led to Flintshire bein...
Episode 8: Emma Olivier - Trail Blazer and Disability Advocate: Highlighting the Twenty Percent
September 19, 2023 00:00 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MBEmma Olivier is the founder and CEO of Twenty Percent, a disability Advisory working with Corporate Australia. She was born with a limb difference - without a left hand – and understands from her own lived experience the challenges and opportunities of having a disability in the corporate world. She spent over 30 years in consulting, most recently at Accenture in Melbourne. She is a member of the Risk and Audit Committee of Scope, among other roles. Our podcast charts Emma's p...
Episode 7: Colin Robertson - Independent Investment Advisor: From Game Theory to Risk Management and the Importance of Nuance
June 08, 2023 00:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBColin Robertson is an independent advisor to two LGPS funds – London Borough of Tower Hamlets and London Borough of Harrow, within a portfolio career that he has had since 2013. He previously held the role of Global Head of Asset Allocation for Aon Hewitt and previously at Mercury Asset Management. He has extensive experience in working with a wide range of institutional clients. In this podcast we go on a journey from Scotland to the University of California – Berkeley around the...
Episode 7: Paul Guilliotti of Richmond and Wandsworth Council: From Pooling to a League 2 Football Team: The Life and Times of a real life Ted Lasso
June 08, 2023 00:00 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBPaul Guilliotti is Assistant Director – Financial Services – at Richmond and Wandsworth Councils. He has had a long career in local government and is a frequent participant in discussions around leveling up and LGPS pooling. Our conversation starts with Paul’s childhood where he spent some time in Zambia during his early school years. We speak about any take-aways from that time and then dig into the origins of his unusual name a little. We then trace his long years of service in...
Episode 1: Caroline Cavanagh - Notes from the Stress-Busting Toolbox: Special Release for Mental Health Awareness Week 2023
May 17, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBIn this special bonus episode for Mental Health Awareness Week 2023 we hear from Caroline Cavanagh, who is an Anxiety Specialist, Author, Professional Speaker and National Award Winning Therapist. She works both one on one as well as with organizations to maintain good mental health within their staff and to help individuals to reduce anxiety and stress and increase mental resilience. She has her own Youtube channel where she uploads content such as a stress-busting tool kit as well...
Episode 6: The Love Series: Charlotte O'Leary CEO of Pensions for Purpose - Where Passion and Purpose Collide
February 23, 2023 00:00 - 21 minutes - 29.1 MBCharlotte O’Leary is Chief Executive Officer and Director of Pensions for Purpose, which exists as a bridge between asset managers, pension funds and their professional advisers, to encourage the flow of capital towards impact investment. She has had a long career in investment management, with a particular focus on pensions as well as ESG and impact investing. She is also a passionate participant in fitness competitions - particularly those organized under the Hyrox Brand. Our co...
Episode 5: Christine Chow - Sustainability Leader and Passionate Horsewoman - The Importance of a Strong Core and a Light Touch
February 16, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBIn Christine's own words: "Horses form a person from within and foster the development of courage, humility, quickness of judgement, self-discipline, self-control and focus". In this latest episode of our love series we revisit one of our most popular podcast guests from 2020. Christine Chow is a sustainability leader, who will assume the role of Head of Active Ownership and Managing Director at Credit Suisse Asset Management effective April 1, 2023. She has been a passionate hor...
Episode 4: John Harney of AON - on Pensions, Food, New Beginnings and Returning to the Fold
February 13, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes - 41.4 MBJohn Harney is a senior consultant with AON where he focuses on helping pension scheme sponsors to manage pension risks and maximize potential upside. He is based in the Oxford area. I came across John through mutual friends in the industry and when I was drawn in particular to his LinkedIn posts that mentioned his joy in cooking and baking. This was initially very promising for our inaugural "Love" series, but what we discovered in our conversation was a veritable "Layer Cake" of ...
Episode 3: Caroline Kenyon - Broadcaster and Serial Entrepreneur - Celebrating a Life of Food, Glorious Food
February 09, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBCaroline Kenyon, broadcaster and serial entrepreneur in the world of food, founder of The Food Awards Company and co-founder of the radio company Food FM. I invited Caroline to sit down with me to talk about her love of food and how she nurtures it and cultivates it in others. We start with her upbringing in London and how she moved to study law at Cambridge but found she didn't have the mindset to work as a lawyer. Instead her creative instincts led her to journalism and eventua...