Market Champions
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Episode 15- Bonds, bonds and bonds!
January 02, 2024 20:07 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBHow to analyze bonds successful!
243|Understanding the China Problem ft. Mirza Baig with Srivatsan Prakash
November 27, 2023 01:10 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBMirza Baig is a macro strategist at Macrohive, previously having worked on various FICC trading and strategy desks at Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, Morgan Stanley, and Point 72. Here he discusses the China economy, various issues associated with China and other emerging markets as well as his best advice on how to get better at macro!
242|Ex-GS Partner on the Energy Transition ft. Arjun Murti with Srivatsan Prakash
October 16, 2023 01:10 - 54 minutes - 50.7 MBArjun Murti is a partner at Veriten and has spent over 30 years on Wall Street as a sell-side equity research analyst, buy-side investor, advisor and board member covering the global energy sector. Since November 2021, Arjun has published Super-Spiked, a Substack newsletter and podcast about the energy transition. He spent 15 years of his career at Goldman Sachs. He retired from Goldman Sachs in 2014, after serving as Co-Director of Americas Equity Research in addition to his responsibilitie...
241|What it Takes to Build a Macro Process ft. Alfonso Peccatiello with Srivatsan Prakash
September 25, 2023 01:25 - 42 minutes - 39.7 MBAlf joins us again for another round of macro - and he shares what it takes to build a trading process, his thoughts on where opportuntieis lie, where we may be in the economic cycle and the risks associated with the hiking cycle.
240|What I Learnt at Bridgewater and the State of Alternative Investments ft. Bob Elliott with Srivatsan Prakash
September 19, 2023 01:31 - 58 minutes - 54.4 MBBob Elliott is the founder, CEO and CIO at Unlimited Funds, where he aims to provide access to hedge fund strategies for retail investors. He was previously Head of Research and part of the investment committee at Bridgewater Associates. Here he discusses what he learnt working with Ray Dalio at Bridgewater, his views on macro and the economic environment as well as the state of hedge funds and the private investment space.
239|Options Market-Maker on Risk Management ft. Kris Abdelmessih with Srivatsan Prakash
April 24, 2023 00:30 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBKris Abdelmessih is an ex-Options market-maker, previously having worked for Parallax and starting his career at Susquehanna Investment Group. Here he discusses the importance of risk management, whether traders are made or born, and more! You can find him on Twitter @KrisAbdelmessih and subscribe to his substack at moontower.substack.com
238|The Fed is Making a Policy Mistake ft. Chase Taylor with Srivatsan Prakash
April 10, 2023 01:24 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MBChase is founder of Pinecone Macro. Here he discusses his views on the banking crisis, why the Fed is making a policy mistake and should've stopped hiking 200bps ago, his favourite currency trades in a recession event and more!
237|The "Banking Crisis" is a Symptom Of a Larger Problem ft. Jeff Snider with Srivatsan Prakash
April 03, 2023 13:45 - 57 minutes - 53.4 MBJeff Snider is the founder of Eurodollar University, a monetary economics education platform and one of the foremost experts on the global dollar system. Here he discusses what really happened behind the banking crisis, what liquidity looks like, QE vs QT, where we go from here and more!
236|Is The Economy As Strong As It Seems? ft. Alfonso Peccatiello with Srivatsan Prakash
March 06, 2023 01:27 - 48 minutes - 45.1 MBAlfonso "Alf" Peccatiello is the founder and CEO of the Macro Compass, and the ex-head of a $20B bond portfolio. Alf joins me to discuss - is the economy as strong as it seems, whether the labor market is weakening, what's going on in Europe, the Chinese reopening story and more!
235|Tight Labor Markets, 0DTE Options and China ft. Mike Green with Srivatsan Prakash
February 21, 2023 02:59 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBMichael Green is Portfolio Manager and Chief Strategist at Simplify Asset Management. Here Mike discusses his views on labor markets, transitory inflation, 0DTE options and their impact on market microstructure as well as recent political events wrt China and how much they matter.
234|Investing for the Next Uranium Bull Market ft. Adam Rodman with Srivatsan Prakash
February 06, 2023 01:31 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBAdam Rodman is the founder and CIO of Segra Capital, a hedge fund presently focused on the nuclear energy industry and uranium. In this episode, we discuss the differences between the present cycle and the one in 2006, how off-balance sheet "carry trades" matter to the uranium market, as well as how Adam uses option markets and shorting to his advantage to manage through the volatility investing in uranium ensues, and more!
233|The Inflation Guy Discusses Inflation ft. Mike Ashton with Srivatsan Prakash
December 19, 2022 07:04 - 55 minutes - 51.6 MBMike Ashton is founder and principal at Enduring Investments, and is known as the inflation guy. We have a wide ranging conversation surrounding demographics, causes of inflation, monetary economics and how money printing works as well as how to build a portfolio that hedges inflation risk.
232|What is the Housing Market Telling Us? ft. Eric Basmajian with Srivatsan Prakash
December 12, 2022 00:17 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBEric Basmajian is the founder of EPB Research and is very well-known for his work surrounding economic cycles and leading economic indicators. Here he discusses his favorite economic indicators, how he approaches them using a basket/index approach, and then we discuss what's next for the housing and labor markets!
231|A Masterclass on Global Liquidity ft. Michael Howell with Srivatsan Prakash
December 05, 2022 03:54 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBMichael Howell is the founder of Crossborder Capital and has been tracking liquidity flows for decades now. Crossborder is well known for their research into liquidity and harnessing it as part of the investment approach. Here he discusses: When do banks lend? Does the Fed "print" money? How does the Fed's liquidity additions make their way to the market? And much much more! You can also purchase his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Wars-Rise-Global-Liquidity-ebook/dp/B086BBF1H9
230|The World Is Headed to a Deflationary Depression ft. Alex Gurevich with Srivatsan Prakash
November 28, 2022 11:34 - 54 minutes - 50.7 MBAlex is the founder and CIO of HonTe Investments, and he returns to Market Champions to give an update on how he's thinking about where the world is headed, why he thinks we have a >50% probability of seeing negative rates by 2024, ways he's thinking of playing it, insights into his risk management process and more!
229|A Cynic's Perspective On A Long-Short Story ft. Jim Chanos with Srivatsan Prakash
November 20, 2022 21:30 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBI had the opportunity to interview the legendary short seller Jim Chanos. Jim is the founder and president of Kynikos Associates and is very well known for shorting Enron, Wirecard, Luckin Coffee among others. In this conversation we touch up on some of the major issues today - the FTX collapse and what it means for the crypto world, the Uber and Lyft story and why they, among other "gig economy" companies, remain unprofitable. We also talk about the fate of the various Cathie Wood names, an...
228|An Update on the Uranium Market ft. John Ciampaglia with Srivatsan Prakash
November 17, 2022 03:36 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBJohn Ciampaglia serves as Chief Executive Officer of Sprott Asset Management and as Senior Managing Director of Sprott Inc. Here we discuss the various dynamics in nuclear energy, uranium markets, where he sees the market heading, as well as a discussion on gold, oil, and more!
227|The US Dollar Wrecking Ball ft. Michael Kao with Srivatsan Prakash
November 07, 2022 03:14 - 57 minutes - 53.4 MBMichael Kao is the founder of Akanthos Capital. Here he joins me to give an overview of what is going on in oil and then we jump into a deep discussion on the US Dollar, geopolitics, China and much more!
226|Investing in Democracy ft. Julie Cane and Rick Rikoski with Srivatsan Prakash
October 31, 2022 10:33 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBJulie Cane is the CEO and Managing Partner at Democracy Investments and has a 20-year long finance career that spawned after leaving the navy. Her firm, Democracy Investments is focused around investing by overweighting democracies and underweighting authoritarian regimes. Rick Rikoski is the Chief Economist at Democracy Investments, who started in finance after getting a PhD from MIT in Marine Robotics. Here we discuss a lot of the important geopolitical, social and cultural events shapin...
225|What Does a World of 4% Inflation Look Like? ft. Jim Bianco with Srivatsan Prakash
October 26, 2022 17:07 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBJim Bianco is the founder and President at Bianco Research - based in Chicago, IL. Here, he discusses the various changes he sees in the economy, labor vs capital, and his thesis for how a 4% inflation world looks like. He also shares his views on central banking as well as how they've overstepped their actual function.
224|Optimizing Trade Structure and Expression ft. Ken Miller with Srivatsan Prakash
October 24, 2022 10:56 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBKen Miller is a portfolio manager at Simplify. He was formerly at PIMCO (where he was a PM and EVP), where he worked closely with Bill Gross and at Longtail Alpha, where he was a PM and worked closely with Vineer Bhansali. In this episode, Ken gets into optimizing trade structure, how to analyze market internal dynamics as well as talk about how he found his best trades / hedges right before the financial crisis in the Japanese Yen options market, and more!
223|What Are Allocators Up To? With Mercer Canada's CIO ft. Rachel Volynsky with Srivatsan Prakash
September 26, 2022 13:36 - 50 minutes - 46.9 MBMercer is the world's largest outsourced asset manager with about $300B in AUM and $15T in AUA. I had the opportunity to speak with Mercer Canada's CIO, Rachel Volynsky, to discuss what asset managers are up to, where she sees inflation going, how she's thinking about allocating in this environment, and much more!
222|Trading Volatility in Times of Uncertainty ft. Shailesh Gupta with Srivatsan Prakash
September 22, 2022 14:53 - 56 minutes - 52.4 MBShailesh Gupta is a portfolio manager and head of trading at Simplify Asset Management. Here he discusses the profile of short vol strategies, how to size positions as an "alt equity" exposure, as well as why strategies like XIV blew up and much more! Check out the video for charts as well!
221|Yield Curves, the Fed and a Multipolar World ft. Hugh Hendry with Srivatsan Prakash
September 19, 2022 01:50 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBHugh Hendry is a financier and was the founder and manager of Eclectica Asset Management, a former global macro hedge fund. Here he shares his views on inflation, the Fed, multipolar world theory, as well as some ideas around finding trade ideas from the "inside". You can get his hats and other merch here - https://pixel-gallery.co.uk/collections/acid-capitalist-trucker-hats
220|CCP Meeting, European Energy, Buenos Aires Consensus ft. Marko Papic with Srivatsan Prakash
September 11, 2022 19:18 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBMarko Papic is a partner and chief strategist at Clocktower Group, an alternative investment asset management firm. He leads the firm's Strategy Team, providing bespoke research to clients and partners on geopolitics, macroeconomics, and markets. Here he discusses the various aspects of his geopolitical analysis framework, how the idea of the Buenos Aires consensus has evolved, as well as what the Chinese government will do on the CCP meeting, and much more! You can get his book here: http...
219|What Comes Next for the Chinese Economy? ft. Louis-Vincent Gave with Srivatsan Prakash
September 04, 2022 22:26 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBLouis-Vincent Gave co-founded GaveKal in 1999 with his father Charles and Anatole Kaletsky and serves as CEO. GaveKal started as a research firm and evolved in 2005 to include fund management and data analysis services. Here Louis discusses China, inflation, the European energy crisis and much more!
218|Investing in Special Situation and Spinoffs ft. Richard Howe with Srivatsan Prakash
August 15, 2022 01:57 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBRichard Howe is the founder of Stock Spinoff Investing. Prior to this, he was at Citi Private Wealth where he worked as a Senior Vice President, and was an Equity Research Associate at Eaton Vance. Here he discusses how he discusses Stock Spinoffs, special situations, as well as some of his past investments and ideas he's watching right now! You can find his blog here: https://stockspinoffinvesting.com/
217|An Update on Oil Market Dynamics ft. Rory Johnston with Srivatsan Prakash
August 08, 2022 02:35 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBRory Johnston is a commodity and energy analyst and the author of Commodity Context. Here he discusses the various narratives and dynamics driving the oil market since the pandemic, where the shortages are, what supply vs demand is looking like at the moment, how to analyze futures curves and more!
215|When Will the Fed Pivot? And an Energy Update ft. Lyn Alden with Srivatsan Prakash
August 01, 2022 14:01 - 58 minutes - 54 MBLyn Alden has been performing investment research for over fifteen years in various public and private capacities and founded Lyn Alden Investment Strategy in 2016. In this episode she discusses economic growth, the Fed, as well as an update on her energy positions and where she's looking to allocate capital.
216|When Will the Fed Pivot? And an Energy Update ft. Lyn Alden with Srivatsan Prakash
August 01, 2022 14:01 - 58 minutes - 54 MBLyn Alden has been performing investment research for over fifteen years in various public and private capacities and founded Lyn Alden Investment Strategy in 2016. In this episode she discusses economic growth, the Fed, as well as an update on her energy positions and where she's looking to allocate capital.
215|How Breaking Equity is Disrupting Retail Trading ft. Devin Crane with Srivatsan Prakash
July 25, 2022 00:46 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBDevin Crane is co-founder and CEO of Breaking Equity Strategies. Breaking Equity brings a two-sided platform to build, buy and sell automated strategies. Here Devin discusses how to create individual ETFs, how Breaking Equity can help traders incoroporate AI into their daily trading and more!
214|How The World Got Rich ft. Mark Koyama with Srivatsan Prakash
July 17, 2022 22:21 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBMark Koyama is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, Senior Scholar. Professor Koyama got his PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford. Here he discusses the ideas presented in his latest book, where he talks about how demographics, institutions, culture and more have had influences on the economic development of a country. You can find the book here: https://www.amazon.com/How-World-Became-Rich-Historical/dp/1509540237
213|China, Digitization, Demographics, Climate Change ft. Paul Krake with Srivatsan Prakash
July 11, 2022 01:16 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBPaul has over 25 years’ experience as an economic and political strategist. He founded View from the Peak in 2011, seeing a need for a truly global, multi-asset class research platform that focuses on the interactions between public policy, economic trends, technology, and geopolitics. View from the Peak takes its name from Victoria Peak, the highest point on Hong Kong Island and the firm aims to look at the world from a 360-degree view with an Asian perspective. Prior to that he traded unde...
212|Trading At a Bank in the 1980s ft. Andy Fately with Srivatsan Prakash
July 03, 2022 23:37 - 59 minutes - 55.3 MBAndy Fately is an FX trader, and writes the fxpoet blog! Here he discusses what it was like back in the 1980s and 1990s ("heyday of Wall Street"), shares some fun trading stories, and also shares his views on where he thinks markets are headed next!
211|Sovereign Debt Defaults? And The US Dollar ft. Brent Johnson with Srivatsan Prakash
June 27, 2022 00:48 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBBrent is the founder of Santiago Capital, and well known for his ideas around the Dollar Milkshake Theory. Here he discusses Japan, emerging markets, what the Fed is up to, and more, as well as an update on the Dollar Milkshake and where he sees the USD going from here!
210|What People Get Wrong About MMT ft. Brian Romanchuk with Srivatsan Prakash
June 20, 2022 02:50 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBBrian Romanchuk is a consultant, author and blogger, and writes at bondeconomics.com where he writes about central banks, monetary policy, bonds and more! In this interview he discusses how central banks really function, what the Fed is doing by hiking rates, what most people get wrong about MMT and more!
209|Are We in a Recession? ft. Ben Emons with Srivatsan Prakash
June 05, 2022 21:37 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MBBen Emons is Managing Director and Macro Strategist at Medley Global - one of the largest macro research firms in the world. Here he describes whether we're entering a recession in the US, how to think through Europe and Asian macro as well as how to think through rates and FX trades here and more!
208|China's Endgame and the "Three D" Framework ft. Tom Roderick with Srivatsan Prakash
May 29, 2022 19:31 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBTom Roderick is a portfolio manager at Trium Capital. Before that, he was partner at Eclectica Asset Management and he talks about how he went from theoretical physics to finance, his thoughts on the lockdowns+yuan, inflation and his 3 "D" framework, and much more!
207|A Framework for Navigating Large Economic Changes ft. Russell Clark with Srivatsan Prakash
May 22, 2022 22:15 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBRussell Clark was the founder and manager of Russell Clark Investments, and now writes at russell-clark.com. Here he discusses how minimum wage laws have changed over time, how he's thinking about China and more!
206|Understanding Changing FX Regimes ft. Brent Donnelly with Srivatsan Prakash
May 15, 2022 22:49 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBBrent Donnelly is President at Spectra Markets and writes am/FX - a daily newsletter dedicated to currency markets. Here he discusses his views on the macroeconomy, how he's thinking about the Fed as well as how he thinks through changing regimes as they relate to rate differentials and more!
205|Cash is a Hedge in the Commodity Supercycle ft. Shrubbery Capital with Srivatsan Prakash
May 08, 2022 17:35 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBShrubbery Capital is presently the CIO and founder of a hedge fun - here he discusses the bullish case for commodities, stagflation, and how cash serves as a hedge in what he considers to be a dangerous market for investors!
204|Investing in Innovation and the Future ft. Josh Wolfe with Srivatsan Prakash
April 24, 2022 23:21 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBJosh Wolfe is the co-founder of Lux Capital, a $4B venture capital firm. Here he discusses some of the biggest advances made in precision manufacturing, science, biotech, AI and how they drive the future of our world!
203|Understanding the Fed and What's Driving Markets ft. Andy Constan with Srivatsan Prakash
April 18, 2022 02:56 - 58 minutes - 54.4 MBAndy is the former CIO of a hedge fund, and has a pedigree with some of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street. Here he discusses the Fed and how they affect asset markets from a risk premium standpoint, what he continues to watch for, and more!
202|A Framework for Understanding Inflation ft. Jeff Snider with Srivatsan Prakash
April 11, 2022 14:45 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBJeff Snider is Head of Global Research at Alhambra Investments. Here he discusses analyzing the Eurodollar futures curve as a probability distribution, what different yield curves are telling us, why the Petrodollar is not a real thing and more!
201|A Conversation with Sprott's CEO ft. John Ciampaglia with Srivatsan Prakash
April 03, 2022 19:54 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBJohn Ciampaglia has more than 25 years of investment industry experience and serves as Chief Executive Officer of Sprott Asset Management and as Senior Managing Director of Sprott Inc. Here we discuss uranium market dynamics, how the spot market for uranium really works, why the market is so opaque and more!
202|A Conversation with Sprott's CEO ft. John Ciampaglia with Srivatsan Prakash
April 03, 2022 19:54 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBJohn Ciampaglia has more than 25 years of investment industry experience and serves as Chief Executive Officer of Sprott Asset Management and as Senior Managing Director of Sprott Inc. Here we discuss uranium market dynamics, how the spot market for uranium really works, why the market is so opaque and more!
200|Long Commodities and the Brazilian Real ft. Jim Leitner with Srivatsan Prakash
March 27, 2022 23:17 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBJim Leitner is the founder of Falcon Management, a family office based in Wyckoff, NJ. Here he talks about the long ags trade, his BRL and CLP long trades as well as why he's out of his uranium position.
199|A Systems Thinking Framework for Markets ft. Daniel Want with Srivatsan Prakash
March 13, 2022 22:44 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBDaniel Want is the founder and CIO of Prerequisite Capital based in Australia. Here he shares his story, his views on markets ahead and how to apply a systems thinking framework for thinking about the world. Lots of awesome information from Daniel!
198|Building an FX and Rates Framework ft. Bilal Hafeez with Srivatsan Prakash
March 07, 2022 00:11 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBBilal Hafeez is the founder of MacroHive and formerly an FX and Rates Strategist at some of the big banks. Here he talks about how to build a framework, his thoughts on the Russia-Ukraine situation and where he sees opportunity going forward!
197|Hiking Cycles, Europe and the Yuan ft. Jon Turek with Srivatsan Prakash
February 27, 2022 22:38 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBJon Turek is the founder of JST Advisor and the publisher of the Cheap Convexity blog. Here he discusses his thoughts on the hiking cycle, what's next for Europe and Asia and more! You can find his blog here- https://cheapconvexity.substack.com/