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Outside In with Jon Lukomnik

88 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings

Well-known institutional investor and author Jon Lukomnik hosts Outside In, the interdisciplinary podcast for financial professionals who value different thinking. We interview fascinating people – from Shakespeare scholars to financial data scientists – to see what the financial community can learn from non-traditional sources and from traditional sources thinking in non-traditional ways. We’re breaking down the silos which too often surround the financial community. Come listen to the sounds of the walls collapsing.

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Superstar Media Executive Joe Ferullo on What Makes America Tick.

December 26, 2023 12:21 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MB

Joe Ferullo is CEO & Publisher of the National Catholic Reporter, an independent non-profit news organization founded in 1964. NCR leads the field in reporting on one of the world's most influential institutions, and its impact on US laws, society and culture. Prior to NCR, Joe was an Executive Vice President of Programming at CBS, where he oversaw several long-running programs - including Entertainment Tonight and Judge Judy - and helped guide his division's transition into digital & strea...

Charles Elson on Integrity, "Superstar CEOs" and a Window Into American Capitalism.

December 19, 2023 13:28 - 36 minutes - 33 MB

If you're involved in corporate law or corporate governance, or just care about business and society, Charles needs no introduction. He is seemingly ubiquitous and has been for four decades. He is the Executive Editor of Directors & Boards. He's the retired Edgar S. Woolard Chair in Corporate Governance and the founding director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. His other academic credentials include more than a decade as a law professor...

Chris Pierce: Fighting Partial Deafness, Touring with Neil Young and the Unifying Power of Music.

December 12, 2023 11:42 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MB

Chris is an American singer songwriter who has opened for Neil Young, BB King, Seal, and a host of others. He recently gained additional worldwide prominence with “We Can Always Come Back to This”. His hit song aired on 3 episodes of the #1 NBC primetime series ‘THIS IS US,' then went on to #1 on the Billboard Blues Chart. Other recent highlights include: a solo concert at The Kennedy Center, a duet with Sara Bareilles, a sold-out concert with Allison Russell, and performance/interviews on ...

Chris Pinney of High Meadows Institute: Renegotiating the Social Contract - Implications for Business.

November 28, 2023 08:33 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MB

Chris Pinney, is President and CEO of High Meadows Institute. Chris analyzes and writes about the role of business in today's world and in tomorrow's. While most of us accept our daily interactions with companies like Google and JPMorgan Chase, Chris thinks about the fact that these firms and many others have more impact on our day to day lives than government. He then analyzes the implications both for those businesses and for society. Prior to High Meadows, Chris held a string of position...

Monique Aiken of The Investment Integration Project: Weaving the Helpers Together to Make a Real Impact.

November 21, 2023 11:01 - 37 minutes - 34 MB

Monique Aiken is the Managing Director at The Investment Integration Project, an applied research and consulting firm with a recently launched SaaS platform called SAIL, the Systems Aware Investing Launchpad. Monique is co-founder of Make Justice Normal, a nonprofit collective focused on narrative change, and host of their podcast, “Into the Record”. She is also cofounder of the ReStarter Fund, an economic and climate justice initiative aiming to be a small business lifeline in these unique ...

Fran Seegull of the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance: Systems Level Thinking and the Mainstreaming of Impact Investing.

November 14, 2023 10:46 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MB

If you want to understand, learn about, or even rationally criticize impact investing, Fran Seegull is the person to know in the United States. Fran is president of the U. S. Impact Investing Alliance. She helped incubate the Alliance at the Ford Foundation in partnership with Darren Walker. In 2023, John Palfrey, President of the MacArthur Foundation succeeded Walker as Alliance Advisory Board Chair. Fran is also executive director of the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing, a donor col...

Matt Moscardi of Free Float and the Business Pants Podcast: Why Investing Isn't A What, It's A Who!

November 07, 2023 11:17 - 37 minutes - 34 MB

Matt Moscardi is one half of the podcast, Business Pants, which makes business and investing news suck less for real people and the investor-curious. His day job is as the founder of Free Float, which provides an incredibly complete data set and analysis of the directors at public companies. Matt knows whereof he speaks. He spent almost a decade at MSCI helping to develop that financial service behemoth's ESG ratings model. He chaired the MSCI ESG Research Editorial Committee, sat on the MSC...

Greg Brodsky, founder of Start.coop: Sharing Prosperity - the Power of Cooperatives.

October 31, 2023 11:16 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MB

Greg is the Founder and Executive Director of Start.coop. Greg brings a powerful background of financial strategy, tech, and entrepreneurship to growing the cooperative landscape. Greg's work has ranged from business development to strategic planning for multiple cooperatives.Prior to launching Start.coop, Greg founded and led the Bike Cooperative, a division of CCA Global Partners, and also helped to launch the nation's only purchasing co-op for craft breweries. Greg also previously served ...

CFA Institute's Information Watchdog Sandy Peters: Shaping the Future of Finance.

October 24, 2023 10:02 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MB

If you're an investor or just interested in a smooth functioning economy, Sandy Peters is an unsung hero. She heads CFA Institute's advocacy and regulatory affairs efforts globally relating to the information needs of investors for investment decision making. This includes corporate disclosures, financial reporting, accounting, ESG/sustainability disclosures, and how the information is assured and audited. She also looks at how technology creates new forms of information and how that informa...

A Moral Puzzle, Emotion, Unpredictability: The Art of Storytelling with Alison MacAdam.

October 17, 2023 09:54 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MB

As a producer and senior editor of NPRs "All Things Considered" for more than a decade, Alison helped shepherd that show's coverage of one financial crisis, two wars and three presidential elections. She then became NPR's storytelling guru which meant she guided some of the best radio and podcast talents in the world to become better at narrative storytelling. Today she is a sought after freelance audio editor whose work could be heard on such in-depth journalistic podcast series as "The 1...

Greg Taxin of Spotlight Advisors: Activist Investing from All Angles.

June 27, 2023 11:44 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MB

Greg previously served as the CEO of Glass, Lewis & Co., an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Securities, a lawyer and a hedge fund portfolio manager. Greg has been on all sides of activist investing over the last 20 years: he has advised companies responding to activists; he has been an activist investor at more than 40 companies; he has advised investment funds leading proxy fights; and he has been the Chief Executive of the country’s second largest proxy advisory fir...

Holly Gregory, Trailblazing Lawyer, the Calm at the Centre of Corporate Crises, on Repotting, HBO's "Succession" and Mastering the Mandolin.

June 20, 2023 10:24 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MB

Holly Gregory is at the pinnacle of America's top corporate lawyers. She co-chairs law firm Sidley Austin's global Corporate Governance practice and also co-leads its Chambers-recognized ESG and Crisis Management teams. She's won just about every honor available to her. She chaired the American Bar Association's Corporate Governance Committee. The National Association of Corporate Directors named her one of the hundred most influential people in corporate governance 16 straight years. Ethis...

Adam Barsky, New York Power Authority's EVP and CFO: Making a Difference; Transforming New York.

June 13, 2023 11:40 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MB

Adam Barsky is the New York Power Authority's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, he joined the Power Authority in 2019. He is an accomplished senior executive who brings more than 30 years of dedicated experience in management, finance and public policy. Adam previously served as Chief of Staff and Special Counselor at the Port Authority of NY and NJ. Prior to that he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of IDB bank NY from 2006 to the 2017. In that s...

Uri Gneezy, Behavioral Economist and Author of "Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work".

June 06, 2023 09:04 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MB

Professor Uri Gneezy is one of the world's leading behavioral economists. He holds the Epstein/Atkinson Endowed Chair in Behavioral Economics at the University of California San Diego, and is also visiting professor of Economics at Amsterdam University. Uri is the author of "Mixed Signals", the well received book about how incentives designed to get people to do one thing, sometimes send unintended signals that confuse people about what they're supposed to do, or worse. In some ways, "Mixed...

Estelle Parsons, an Actor's Actor: Authentic, Humble, Memorable.

May 30, 2023 04:55 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MB

Amongst theater people, Estelle Parsons is revered as an actor's actor. She won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress in "Bonnie and Clyde", another Academy nomination for her work in "Rachel, Rachel". Five Tony nominations, a BAFTA award, an Obie, a Theater World Award, and has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. She created a memorable character as Bev Harris, Roseanne's television Mom. And that doesn't even scratch the surface of Estelle's acting or directing credits. As ...

Paul Clements-Hunt on Coining ESG, Chasing the Dragon and Rescuing the Future.

May 23, 2023 10:32 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MB

Paul Clements-Hunt invented what might be Investing's most controversial three letters - ESG. He literally invented the phrase in a Geneva office building nearly 20 years ago. Paul ran UNEP FI, the United Nation's signature program for financial institutions. He helped create and then was a founding board member of the Principles for Responsible Investing, which today is backed by more than 4500 investment institutions with about $US125 trillion in assets under management. He was a journal...

Carole Laible, CEO of Domini Impact Investments: Paving the Road for the Rest of the Industry to Follow; Kicking the Fossil Fuel Addiction

May 16, 2023 13:42 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MB

Carole Laible is the CEO of Domini Impact Investments. She has over twenty years of impact investing experience, having joined Domini in 1997. Ms. Laible is responsible for the overall research and mutual funds operations of the firm. She also leads institutional client service and marketing initiatives, and collaborates with Amy Domini, Chair, in the development of overall business strategy and business plan implementation.

David Bank of ImpactAlpha: Moving the Machine, Power Dynamics, AI and Finding The Way.

May 09, 2023 11:27 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MB

David Bank co-founded ImpactAlpha to cover impact investing as a serious beat in the expectation it would become one – and it has. A veteran journalist, he has spotted big trends at The Wall Street Journal, the San Jose Mercury News and other publications, breaking stories on technology, social innovation and finance. Harvard Business Review and Amazon.com called “Breaking Windows,” his book on Microsoft, one of the ‘best business books of the year.’ A 1996 Nieman Fellow at Harvard Universit...

At the Intersection of Organized Labor, Corporate Law, and the Capital Markets with David Webber, author of The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon.

May 02, 2023 11:38 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MB

David Webber is the author of the critically-acclaimed book, The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon, published by Harvard University Press. Webber toured extensively for the book and published op-eds about it in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. In 2022, Webber published scholarly articles in the Harvard Business Law Review, the University of Chicago Business Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of L...

Doug Chia: Governance, Grenades and Quasi-governmental Corporations

April 25, 2023 11:22 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MB

Doug Chia is a corporate governance expert. The National Association of Corporate Directors and the GC Powerlist describe Doug as being among the most influential people in corporate governance. He is a sharp-eyed observer of, and player in, how America's great corporations are run. After a career in corporate America, Doug runs his own consulting firm, Soundboard Governance. Doug is a former Corporate Secretary of Johnson & Johnson, Assistant General Counsel, Corporate of Tyco Internation...

Bruce Freed: Making Sense of Business, Politics, Government, and Money.

April 18, 2023 10:28 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MB

Bruce has been trying to change how businesses spend money to affect elections and policies for 20 years. That seems particularly appropriate today, in mid-spring 2023, at a time when business is either, depending on your viewpoint, caught in a political crossfire or throwing fuel onto the bonfire of American political polarization or perhaps both. Bruce is the founder and president of CPA, the Center for Political Accountability, the country's leading resource for investors and businesses ...

Barbara Brooks Kimmel: Investing in Trust - Building Better Businesses.

April 11, 2023 10:59 - 28 minutes - 26 MB

Barbara Brooks Kimmel is co-founder and CEO of Trust across America-Trust Around the World, a leading consultancy focused on helping leaders and teams build trust. A former McKinsey consultant, Barbara has developed a host of tools designed to not only build trust, but also to measure it so investors can profit from investing in the most trustworthy companies. Barbara's work on trust has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Investor's Business Daily, Thomson Reuters, BBC Radio, The...

Jennifer Taub, Law Professor & Author: Following Dirty Money.

April 04, 2023 05:00 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MB

Jennifer Taub is Professor of Law at Western New England University School of Law, but is perhaps better known for her book, 'Big Dirty Money: the Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime', and for her media appearances analyzing corporate governance, white collar crime, and banking and financial market regulation issues. Jennifer is a vigorous legal scholar and researcher with a myriad of peer reviewed articles to her credit. Her first book, 'Other People's Houses: How Decad...

Deconstructing Today's Reality - Back to the Future of Finance with Dave Nadig.

March 28, 2023 11:38 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MB

ETF industry pioneer Dave Nadig is the Financial Futurist for ETF Trends and ETF Database. Nadig comes with 25 years of ETF experience, most recently as Managing Director of ETF.com, where he helped grow the business and provide expert commentary for the past decade. Before that, he managed mutual funds at startup MetaMarkets.com, and was a Managing Director at Barclays Global Investors in the 1990s. He’s widely leveraged by media and institutions as a key expert in the field. Dave has been ...

Ellen Quigley: From Existential Risk to Universal Ownership; the Interaction between Climate, Finance and Investing.

March 21, 2023 07:44 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MB

Dr Ellen Quigley is a Senior Research Associate in Climate Risk & Sustainable Finance at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) and the Special Adviser (Responsible Investment) to the Chief Financial Officer, both at the University of Cambridge. Her work centres on the mitigation of climate change and inequality through the investment policies and practices of institutional investors. She is from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and holds an AB in English literature from Harvard...

Eva Haller: Survivor, Philanthropist; Special.

March 14, 2023 11:34 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MB

Eva Haller is a Hungarian-American philanthropist, activist, and executive. Her service includes Trustee of the University of California, Santa Barbara, co-founder and President of the Campaign Communications Institute of America, Visiting Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University, Board member of Counterpart International, Sing for Hope, and Creative Visions. Born in 1930 in Budapest, Hungary, she was hidden among students at the Scottish Mission, which was raided by soldiers when they dis...

Bruce Dubinsky: One of the World's Foremost Forensic Accountants on Why It's Not Just About the Numbers.

March 07, 2023 10:58 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MB

Bruce Dubinsky is one of the foremost forensic accountants in the world. He has been an expert witness more than a hundred times in his career and has been involved not only in Department of Justice enforcement actions, but also cases brought by the SEC and the IRS. He's been integral to investigations into Bernie Madoff, Enron, a contested International Brotherhood of Teamsters election, the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and the Parmalat fraud. Now the owner of the eponymously named Dubinsky ...

Josh Zinner, CEO at ICCR: Understanding What ICCR is Bringing to Bear in Today's Capital Markets and in their Interaction with Society in General.

February 28, 2023 12:40 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MB

As ICCR’s Chief Executive Officer since January 2016, Josh Zinner oversees programs and operations for the organization, and is the lead external organizational representative. Josh has more than 25 years’ experience as a non-profit leader, coalition-builder and policy advocate. Josh is also a long-time public interest lawyer who has spent his career working to promote social and economic justice and corporate accountability. For the eight years prior to coming to ICCR, Josh co-directed the ...

Zach Stafford, Award-winning Journalist and Producer: A Slice of His Life - A Story in the Making.

February 21, 2023 10:38 - 38 minutes - 35 MB

Zach Stafford is an award-winning journalist, Tony Award-winning Broadway producer for the play A Strange Loop, Podcaster, and currently columnist for MSNBC. Zach combines his lived experience as a black gay man with superb reporting and storytelling skills to provide a voice that's uniquely his. He's the former editor in chief of The Advocate, and his work has appeared in everything from The Guardian and the New York Times to the BBC and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. One of his more rece...

Julie Bell Lindsay, CEO of the Center for Audit Quality: What the Accounting and Auditing Profession Gets Right, What It Gets Wrong and How It Will Stay Relevant for the Future.

February 14, 2023 10:24 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MB

Julie Bell Lindsay is CEO of the Center for Audit Quality, a nonprofit public policy organization representing U.S. public company auditors. Previously, Julie served as Managing Director and the Deputy Head of Global Regulatory Affairs at Citigroup, where she worked to formulate and execute regulatory policy strategy. Lindsay also managed Citigroup’s $20 billion TARP repayment and $58 billion exchange offers in 2009. Julie previously counseled on Sarbanes-Oxley and other public company disc...

Brandon Rees, Deputy Director Corporations and Capital Markets of AFL-CIO, on Proxy Voting, Overworked Americans and the Retirement Savings Crisis.

February 07, 2023 10:57 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MB

Brandon Rees is the Deputy Director, Corporations and Capital Markets for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). The AFL-CIO is a federation of 56 labor unions who represent 12.5 million members. Union sponsored and Taft-Hartley pension and employee benefit plans hold approximately $540 billion in assets. The AFL-CIO Office of Investment promotes the interests of workers’ funds in the capital markets by leading corporate governance shareholder ...

Sara E. Murphy of The Shareholder Commons: Challenging Capitalism to Work to Its Optimum.

January 31, 2023 11:38 - 31 minutes - 29 MB

Sara E. Murphy is Chief Strategy Officer at The Shareholder Commons which she joined in 2020 after 22 years working in sustainable investing and environmental and social advocacy. Sara began her career working for NGOs in the international development and disaster response fields. In 2001, she transitioned into Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) research for the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), where she specialized in bioengineering and defense contracting research....

Laurence B. Siegel: Breaking Down 'Fewer, Richer, Greener' for a Brighter, Optimistic View of the Future.

January 24, 2023 09:05 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MB

Laurence B. Siegel is the Gary P. Brinson director of research at the CFA Institute Research Foundation, senior advisor to OCP Capital LLC, and an independent consultant, writer, and speaker specializing in investment management. Laurence is a respected thought leader at the intersection of finance and economics and is the author of 'Fewer, Richard, Greener' which at one point was the No. 1 economics book on Amazon. On this episode of Outside In, Laurence and Jon break down 'Fewer, Richer,...

Sarah Bloom Raskin: The State of Economics Today, Climate Risk, Grief, and the Power of Love.

January 17, 2023 11:21 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MB

Sarah Bloom Raskin is the Colin W. Brown Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law at Duke University Law School. She has served as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury for the United States, the second highest official in that cabinet department under President Obama. As Deputy Secretary, she focused on the resilience of the country's critical financial infrastructure and elevated cybersecurity to the level of providence it has today. Professor Raskin also served as a member of the Federa...

Jeffrey Cruttenden, Cofounder at Say and Acorns: Simplifying Investing, Empowering Shareholders and Backing the Ambitious FinTech Founders Shaping the Future of Financial Services

December 13, 2022 10:47 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MB

Jeffrey Cruttenden is the co-founder of Acorns and Say, two FinTech success stories. Acorns, the first micro investing platform, created to simplify and democratize investing, which is now a decade old, has helped 9 million customers invest some $15 billion Into diversified portfolios, Say, a technology platform for open communication between companies and their owners, is transforming stock ownership by connecting shareholders and empowering them to access their full ownership rights. Jeff...

James Shinn, Executive Director at Bitt: Geopolitical Threats, Central Bank Digital Currencies and the Transformational Opportunities of the Digital Economy.

December 06, 2022 06:01 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MB

James Shinn, Digital Currency Economist, Executive Director at Bitt, is a special level of polymath. He has filled his life with four successful careers in technology, finance, academia, and government. Read on for a brief highlights tour. Technology Following time at AMD, Jim co-founded Dialogic, one of the first telecommunications firms using digital signal processing. Ultimately, it was sold to Intel. He was then an advisor or co-founder for various tech startups, including cybersecurit...

Charlie Ruffel, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Kudu: Trust, The Future of Finance and Fly Fishing.

November 29, 2022 17:59 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MB

Charlie Ruffle, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Kudo, a private equity firm that is changing the economics of the investing business by taking long term, passive minority stakes in successful, often boutique investment management firms. Kudu now has stakes in 23 businesses with assets under management, depending on the day, of about $60 billion. Before that, Charlie spent decades studying and reporting on the asset management and wealth management business as co-founder and CEO of Asset...

Alan Klingenstein, Chairman at FilmRise: Financial Scars, Wooing Stars and Skating to Where the Puck is Going.

November 22, 2022 11:25 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MB

Alan has enjoyed an eclectic career as a lawyer, an investment banker, an independent film producer, and now film and television distributor. In each. he's been an overachiever. As a lawyer, he was General Counsel to a global fast food company and personally responsible for strategic acquisitions in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. As an investment banker, he did deals totalling billions in real estate related finance, working with such marquee names as Soros Capital, Apol...

Chris Jurgens, Senior Director, Omidyar Network on Reimagining Capitalism.

November 15, 2022 09:13 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MB

As a senior director on the Reimagining Capitalism team, Chris leads Omidyar Network’s strategy and portfolio focused on Corporations, Capital Markets, and the Common Good. He also oversees the organization’s impact investing field-building portfolio. Chris serves in advisory and/or governance roles for the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), Blue Haven Initiative, the Catalytic Capital Consortium, Novata, Social Finance US, and the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing. Pr...

Bill Coffin, Editor in Chief of Ethisphere, on Compliance and the Science of Ethics, His Double Life as a Successful Fantasy Author and Role-playing the Impossible Moments that We Face in Life.

November 08, 2022 10:01 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MB

Bill Coffin is Editor in Chief of Ethisphere. Ethisphere is dedicated to promoting standards of ethical business practice, specifically those which encourage marketplace trust and business success and is known for its annual report on the World's Most Ethical Companies, and its 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics. Bill was previously Editor in Chief of Compliance Week and has a special understanding of finance having worked for some of the largest insurance companies in the world...

Andres Vinelli, Chief Economist at CFA Institute, on Short-Termism, Regulation, Capital Markets and Standard Setting.

November 01, 2022 07:30 - 29 minutes - 27 MB

Andres Vinelli is the CFA Institute’s Chief Economist, an expert in financial markets and in the analysis of highly regulated markets who leads the Research function, which is foundational to developing the organization’s advocacy positions, standards, and codes. Andres also guides economic market analysis and the creation of derivative products to inform and support policy positions and the development of industry standards. As a member of the Research, Advocacy and Standards Leadership T...

Barbara Novick, Co-founder and Former Vice Chairman at BlackRock, on Technology, the Politicization of Regulation and Markets, "The Goldilocks Dilemma" and Her Passion for Mentoring.

October 25, 2022 11:56 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MB

Barbara Novick, Co-founder and former Vice Chairman of BlackRock, was one of the eight original partners who founded BlackRock and took it from an idea with zero assets under management to the largest investor in the world today. BlackRock has assets under management depending on the day you tune into this podcast of some $10 trillion or more. And while Barbara would be the first to tell you that she had great teammates at BlackRock, the fact is that many of the factors which made BlackRock...

Bruno del Ama, co-founder Global X, on FinTech Investing, Spiritual Technology, Synchronicity and Flow.

October 18, 2022 12:32 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MB

Bruno is a finance and technology entrepreneur, leader and innovator. He co-founded Global X in 2008. Recognized as one of the most innovative and fastest growing firms in the exchange traded fund sector, Global X grew to over $10 billion in assets under management under his stewardship as CEO & Chairman, with close to a million clients globally. Mirae Asset Global Investments bought Global X in 2018. Bruno was an investor and board member at 55ip, a wealth and asset management fintech co...

Mindy Lubber, Climate Warrior, CEO and President of Ceres on Acting on Climate and Water and Making Carbon a Real Part of the Economic Equation

October 11, 2022 10:00 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MB

Mindy Lubber is the CEO and President of the sustainability nonprofit organization Ceres. She leads an all-women executive leadership team and more than 160 employees working to mobilize the most influential investors and companies to solve the world’s greatest sustainability challenges. She has been at the helm since 2003, and under her leadership, the organization and its powerful networks and global collaborations have grown significantly in size and influence. On this episode of Outside...

Janine Guillot, Special Advisor to the ISSB Chair on the One Thing that Unites All Investors, Understanding the Impact of Sustainability on Enterprise Value and Her Passion for Sustainable Agriculture.

October 04, 2022 08:30 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MB

Janine Guillot is Special Advisor to the ISSB Chair at IFRS Foundation. Janine was the Chief Operating Investment Officer for CalPERS. She was Chief Operating Investment Officer, Global Fixed Income, at Barclays Global Investors and she's a 12-year veteran of the Bank of America, where her last position was Executive Vice President for Consumer E-Commerce. Janine can walk the walk with the world's largest banks and investors and talk the talk with the world's academics and regulators. On thi...

Alex Vynokur, Co-Founder and CEO of BetaShares, on Fintech Innovation, Capitalism, Coordinating Humanitarian Aid for his Native Ukraine and his Interest in Synthetic Biology.

September 27, 2022 10:07 - 34 minutes - 32 MB

Alex is responsible for leading the strategy and overall management of BetaShares. Prior to co-founding BetaShares, Alex was closely involved in the establishment and development of several leading Australian financial services businesses including Pengana Capital and Centric Wealth. Alex is a director and principal of Apex Capital Partners, a financial services focussed investment firm. He is also a director of Toranotec Ltd, a Japanese asset management firm that delivered the country’s fir...

Rosanna Landis Weaver, of As You Sow, on Executive Compensation, Income Inequality, her Mennonite Upbringing and the Different Kinds of Smart.

September 20, 2022 11:00 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MB

Rosanna is much more than just one of the foremost executive compensation experts. She's a sharp eyed observer of American capitalism who has had more than three decades of corporate governance experience at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), the Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Change to Win. Rosanna is Wage Justice & Executive Pay Program Senior Manager at As You Sow where she's the author of the As You Sow foundatio...

Bob Eccles of Saïd Business School on the Power and Limitations of Sustainability Disclosure, his Taxonomy of the "Sustainability Taliban" and "Sustainability Flat Earthers" and the Sheer Exhilaration of Deadlifting 400 lbs.

September 13, 2022 11:30 - 32 minutes - 30 MB

Said Business School professor Robert Eccles, is a leading authority on the integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in resource allocation decisions by companies and investors, as well as the world’s foremost academic expert on integrated reporting. Bob is the author of a number of books on integrated reporting, sustainability and the role of business in society. He is a leader on how companies and investors can create sustainable strategies. He was the founding ch...

Georgia Stewart, Co-Founder and CEO of Tumelo, on Shareholder Democracy, the Power of Our Money, Sensible Valuations and Getting Life Right

August 02, 2022 10:21 - 27 minutes - 24.7 MB

Georgia grew up in Edinburgh and studied Climate Change and Conservation under a Natural Sciences degree at Cambridge. While at university, she campaigned to transform how Cambridge’s £6B endowment pot was invested, calling for transparency as well as shareholder engagement on critical issues like gender and climate change. She has worked for Jupiter and Alliance Trust on sustainable asset management, as well as Fauna and Flora International on natural capital. Georgia co-founded Tumelo i...

Jamie Kitman, Lawyer, Rock Band Manager and Veteran Automotive Journalist On Big Bad Oil, America's Relationship with the Automobile and the Paradigm of Modern Pollution

July 26, 2022 14:01 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MB

Jamie Kitman is a lawyer, rock band manager (They Might Be Giants, Violent Femmes, Meat Puppets, OK Go, Pere Ubu, among his clients past and present), and veteran automotive journalist whose work has appeared in publications including _Automobile Magazine, Road & Track, Autoweek, Jalopnik, New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, The Nation, Harpers, and Vanity Fair as well as England’s Car, Top Gear, Guardian, Private Eye, and The Road Rat. Winner of a National Magazine Award and the IRE ...