Masters in Business

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz is joined by Bloomberg senior editor John Authers and Bloomberg Markets editor-in-chief Christine Harper to discuss “Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street.” Peter Bernstein’s classic account of how a group of academics transformed Wall Street with bold new theories for managing risk is the first book in Bloomberg’s new book club. To join Bloomberg’s book club, email authersnotes@bloomberg.net or use #AuthersNotes on Twitter.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Andrew Ang, who leads BlackRock’s factor-based strategies group. Ang has published widely on equities, fixed income, asset and factor allocation, and alternative assets; his book “Asset Management: A Systematic Approach to Factor Investing” was published by Oxford University Press. Prior to joining BlackRock, Ang was chair of Columbia Business School’s finance and economics division; he earned his Ph.D. in finance and M.S. in statistics from Stanford University. 

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Chris Brightman, chief investment officer and partner at Research Affiliates. Brightman has three decades of investment management experience, including at The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF), the Virginia Retirement System, the University of Virginia Investment Management Company, and Strategic Investment Group, among others. Brightman is also a member of CFA Institute and CFA Society Orange County. 

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Jon Stein, founder and chief executive officer of Betterment, the U.S.'s largest independent online financial adviser. Prior to founding the firm, which has over $16 billion in assets under management, Stein spent years as a Wall Street consultant. He studied economics at Harvard University and finance at Columbia Business School, and is a CFA charterholder.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews AIG’s Sharon French, who will soon take the reins at the company’s life and retirement funds business, which manages more than $85 billion in assets. French is also president and member of the Global Governance Committee for Women in ETFs and a member of the Investment Company Institute’s ETF governance committee. 

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Scott Galloway, a professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business and author of "The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google." Galloway is also the founder of several firms, including the business intelligence company L2 and the global brand-strategy consultancy Prophet. His latest book is "The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love and Meaning."

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Thomas Lin, founding editor of the award-winning Quanta Magazine, which specializes in science and mathematics coverage. Lin is the editor of two books: "Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire: The Biggest Ideas in Science From Quanta" and "The Prime Number Conspiracy: The Biggest Ideas in Math From Quanta." Before joining Quanta, Lin was a digital editor at The New York Times; he has also worked as a mechanical engineer and teacher. 

Marty Markowitz had his share of problems. His parents had recently died. He had troubles at work. A failing relationship. He needed someone to help him through this rough patch in his life. So he decided to get some professional help from a psychiatrist. What he did not count on, was what happened in his life over the next twenty-nine years. This is a story about power, control, and turning to the wrong person for help.  Listen now at bloomberg.com/shrinknextdoor

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews the veteran TV producer and writer Dave Goetsch, best known for his work on the Emmy-nominated sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.” Goetsch started as a staff writer at “3rd Rock From The Sun” before rising to become executive producer; he has also written and produced numerous pilots for CBS, ABC, Fox and Showtime.  

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews legendary guitarist Don Felder, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee best known as a member of The Eagles. Although Felder spent many years with the classic band, selling over 150 million albums worldwide, he is most proud of his ongoing charity work for the likes of the Starkey Hearing Foundation and the Ruck’N’Roll Charity Ball in Hong Kong. His latest album is “American Rock ’N’ Roll.”

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ivy Zelman, who in 2007 founded Zelman & Associates LLC, the leading research and investment firm dedicated to the housing market and related sectors. She currently serves as chief executive officer and principal. Prior to that, she served at Crédit Suisse First Boston Inc. and Salomon Brothers Inc.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Luis Maizel, co-founder and senior managing director at LM Capital Group. Maizel has been investing in the global fixed-income markets since 1984. His experience includes serving as vice president of finance for Grupoventas S.A., faculty member at Harvard Business School, and president of Industrial Kuick S.A. Maizel was born and raised in Mexico City.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews William J. Bernstein, a neurologist and co-founder of the investment management firm Efficient Frontier Advisors. Bernstein has written several titles on finance and economic history, including “The Birth of Plenty,” “A Splendid Exchange” and “Masters of the Word,” about, respectively, the economic growth inflection of the early 19th century, the history of world trade, and the effects of access to technology on human relations and politics. He was also the 2017 winner of the James R. Vertin Award from CFA Institute.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the co-founders of cryptocurrency exchange Gemini. The duo received a multimillion-dollar settlement in 2008 after claiming Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for a social-networking website. 

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews acclaimed journalist Michael Lewis, whose best-selling books include "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt," "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine," and "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game." After graduating from Princeton and the London School of Economics, Lewis worked on the bond desk at Salomon Brothers, an experience he recounted in his first book, "Liar's Poker." He went on to pen more than a dozen books and currently contributes to Bloomberg Opinion; his first podcast series, "Against the Rules," launched in April. 

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Joshua Miller, an economics professor at the University of Alicante whose research interests include behavioral economics and decision theory. His paper "Surprised By the Hot Hand Fallacy? A Truth in the Law of Small Numbers," co-authored with Adam Sanjurjo, recently appeared in the journal Econometrica. 

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Roger Ibbotson, a professor emeritus of finance at Yale University who serves as chairman and chief investment officer at Zebra Capital Management LLC. He was also the founder and chairman of Ibbotson Associates (now a Morningstar company) and executive director of the Center for Research in Security Prices, which helped transform finance into a field of empirical study. His latest book, “Popularity: A Bridge Between Classical and Behavioral Finance,” co-authored with Thomas M. Idzorek, Paul D. Kaplan and James X. Xiong, was published in January.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviewed the revered Princeton University economist Alan Krueger in 2015. Krueger, who published influential research on labor markets and served as chairman of Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, died last weekend at age 58.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Matthew Granade, chief market intelligence officer at Point72 Asset Management. Granade directs the firm’s central portfolio and manages Point72 Ventures, which funds early-stage companies in financial technology, enterprise automation, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. Before joining Point72 in 2015, Mr. Granade co-founded Domino Data Lab and served as co-head of research for Bridgewater Associates. 

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews John Chisholm, CFA and co-CEO of Acadian Asset Managment. Chisholm assumed the co-CEO role after serving as Acadian’s chief investment officer, where he oversaw Acadian’s investment process and investment team. Earlier in his career, John served as systems engineer at Draper Laboratories and as an analyst for the International Asset Management Department at the State Street Bank and Trust Company (now SSgA). He earned an M.S. in business and finance and a B.S. in engineering from MIT.