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The Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#95 - Andi von Hirschhausen (Reach.Finance) - From Banking To Entrepreneurship, and the Founder's Perspective to VCToday is a special episode - because our host Andi is the guest! Andi was a guest on the Fintalent.io podcast. Of course, he's not only the host of the Wall Street Lab, but also founded his own FinTech recently - and raised money for it. If you have always wondered who Andi actually is and how he started the Wall Street Lab podcast, this is the episode to tune in.   In this episode, we discussed: Andi's journey from banker to entrepreneur Why he started Reach.Finance, and what is broken with financial advisory How he approached fundraising How t...2022-12-1542 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#94 - Danielle Joseph (Closed Loop Partners) - Venture Capital Investing into the Circular Economy for a more Sustainable Future-1 Our guest today is Danielle Joseph. Danielle is a Managing Director and leads the Closed Loop Ventures Group platform – the seed and pre-seed investment division of Closed Loop Partners - focused on the circular economy. She is also a Board Member of several companies.   Prior to Closed Loop Partners, Danielle worked on clean energy project finance activities, including clean energy, energy efficiency, waste-to-value, water resources and reclamation, and environmental services.   Danielle earned her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business where she led the GSB Impact Fund, an early stage investing platform for impact-driven companies. Danielle earned her Bache...2022-12-0144 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#93 - Srecko Dzeko Flash Ventures - Early Stage Venture Investing from Entrepreneur to Investor Advice for Founders and young VCsSrecko Dzeko is a General Partner with Flash Ventures in Berlin, focusing on Europe and Latin America. Prior to joining Flash, he was a Senior Consultant at McKinsey. During his career Srecko working in banking with ANZ and Morgan Stanley, private equity with 3i and founded his own startup: Simplo, a venture-backed B2B marketplace. Srecko holds degrees in philosophy from the London School of Economics, and business from the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.   In this episode Srecko talks to us about investing into early stage companies as a day-zero investor. His investment decision making criteria, what h...2022-11-1746 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#92 - Oemer Gueven (fintalent.io) - How to Become and Succeed as an M&A Freelancer2022-10-2049 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#91 - Ginger Rothrock HG Ventures - Sustainable Corporate Venture Capital for Heavy Industries2022-09-0156 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabMathieu Chabran (Tikehau Capital) - Building and Scaling an Alternative Investments Asset ManagerMathieu Chabran is Co-founder of Tikehau Capital, a global alternative asset manager with over 30 Billion USD in Assets under Management.  Previously, he worked in the Real Estate Debt Market team of Deutsche Bank in London. He began his career at Merrill Lynch, firstly in Paris within the Principal Investment team, then in London, in the High Yield Capital Market department. He received his education from ESCP Europe. This episode is about Mathieu's journey as a founder to scaling his alternative investment asset management company across the global. We talk about Private Debt, Real Assets, Private Equity, and Capi...2022-06-2343 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#89 Andrew J Scott (7percent ventures) - From Entrepreneuer to Venture Capital InvestorAndrew Scott is a founding partner of 7percent ventures, a London & San Francisco-based technology VC. Before founding 7percent ventures in 2014, Andrew founded six startups of his own. Among these was the world’s first location based social network (Playtxt 2001; patented), online digital news archive (BritishPathe.com, 2002), trust graph/recommendation engine using machine learning (Rummble, 2007; patented). In-between he did strategy consulting for VCs and Corporates including Astra Zeneca, AT&T and Alcatel Lucent. Andrew is also co-founder of ICE, a global non-profit network of tech founders and investors, established in 2009.   In this episode we talk about Andrew's journey from serial entrepreneur to V...2022-05-2651 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabSalim Ramji (iShares by BlackRock) - Making Investing easier for Millions of People with ETFs and Indexing Investing, and the Purpose of Life   Salim Ramji is a Senior Managing Director and Global Head of iShares and Index Investments for BlackRock and a member of the firm’s Global Executive Committee. Prior to that he was Head of BlackRock's U.S. Wealth Advisory business. Salim joined BlackRock in 2014, serving initially as the Global Head of Corporate Strategy. Before joining BlackRock, he was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company where he led the Asset & Wealth Management practice areas. He started his career as a corporate finance and M&A lawyer in London and Hong Kong. Salim earned a bachelor's degree in economics and politics from Uni...2022-05-1234 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabBarney Coles (Capital Dynamics) - Investing Into Clean Energy InfrastructureBarney Coles is a Managing Director, Co-Head of the Clean Energy team and member of the Executive Committee of Capital Dynamics. He is also a member of the Responsible Investment Committee. He has over a decade of renewable energy financing experience across Europe. Prior to joining Capital Dynamics, Barney spent over six years in energy corporate finance at Ernst & Young in London, working across lead advisory, project finance, and M&A in the clean energy and utility sectors. He also provided transaction advice to both the private and public sector on large-scale clean energy infrastructure procurement processes. Barney has a b...2022-04-2856 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#86 Rasa Karapandza (EBS University) - Empirical Asset Pricing, Machine Learning, Payment For Order Flow, CryptocurrenciesRasa Karapandza is a Professor of Finance, Vice Dean of Education, and the Academic Director of the Master in Finance Program at EBS Business School in Germany. He is also a visiting Professor at New York University. He was previously also visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. Additionally, Rasa is a Member of the board of directors and member of the audit committee of RS2, a payment processing company. The general focus of Rasa's research is investments, empirical asset pricing, and portfolio management. He advised members of the US congress on the topics of regulating cryptocurrencies Rasa received his PhD in...2022-03-1055 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabJens Bernhardt (Iconic Funds) - Deep Dive into Family Offices, Private Banking, and Wealth ManagementJens Bernhardt is the Founder and Managing Partner of Bernhardt Advisory, a multifamily office, an M&A service provider, and placement agent for private equity funds in Germany.  Before founding his own company, Jens was Chief Investment Strategist of the family office service provider subsidiary of Sal. Oppenheim, which at the time in 2008, was Europe's largest independent private bank. Jens previously has been a member of the Board of Deutsche Wohnen, a property company listed in Germany's main index, the DAX.    Before that, he was Chief Investment Officer for Germany at Zurich Insurance Group, Switzerland's biggest insurance company. And before tha...2022-02-1748 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabJascha Samadi (Greenfield One) - How Venture Capital in Crypto works: Investing in Web3Jascha Samadi is Co-Founder and Partner at Greenfield One, a Berlin-based early-stage venture fund dedicated to blockchain and crypto. Greenfield One makes long-term bets on early developer teams building towards an open, decentralized and more robust architecture of tomorrow’s web. Prior to Greenfield One, Jascha was Co-Founder and CEO of apprupt, which was acquired by browser maker Opera Software in 2014. He is also Co-Founder of Flux, a scalable open market protocol. Jascha holds a Bachelor and Master of Law from Hamburg University.   This episodes combines two topics we have talked about in the past, Venture Capital and Crypto and how...2022-02-0342 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabMohnish Pabrai (Pabrai & Dhandho Funds) - Value Investing, Great Compounders, and Lessons from Warren Buffett and Charlie MungerOur guest today is Mohnish Pabrai. Mohnish is a legendary investor, a shameless cloner and an effective philanthropist. He is both, the author and the subject of several books. Mohnish is the founder and Managing Partner of Pabrai Investment Funds, Founder and CEO of Dhandho Funds, Founder of the Dakshana Foundation. He is the author of "The Dhandho Investor" and "Mosaic: Perspectives on Investing". In this episode we talk about how Mohnish cloned his investment style from legends like Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffet, and Charlie Munger. Mohnish shares lessons from his book about businesses and...2022-01-2047 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabLaurie Menoud (At One Ventures) - Deep Tech VC Investing as a Way to Net PositivityOur guest today is Laurie Menoud. Laurie is a Partner at At One Ventures, a VC that finds, funds, and grows deep-tech startups to catalyze a world where humanity is a net positive to nature. Laurie also joined the board of directors of several Startups, and is a multi board observer. Throughout her career Laurie was a Microbiologist, a Biochemist, and Biotechnologist. She was involved in the characterization of the giant virus, “Mimivirus,” at the French national laboratory, which shed new light on the origins of life and optimized new biological processes for wastewater treatment. All that, before she turn...2022-01-0651 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabLuis Garcia Alvarez (MAPFRE Asset Management) - Value Investing, Behavioural Finance, and Investing in European Football Clubs Our guest today is Luis García Álvarez. Luis is an Equity Portfolio Manager at MAPFRE Asset Management. MAPFRE is the world's largest Spanish insurance company and the second largest insurance group in Latin America.   Luis has recently received the 'Fund Manager of the Year' award at the Third Edition of the RankiaPro Awards. The economic-financial publication has recognized Luis as "anticipating volatility and creating a portfolio consistent with the long-term view" in an adverse context in financial markets such as that experienced since March 2020.   Luis is also the Co-Director and Professor at the Executive Program in Value Investing and Beha...2021-12-2341 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabAlina Sychova - Investment Banking and IPO Process in Emerging MarketsAlina Sychova has more than 18 years of experience in Investment Banking. Currently as the head of capital markets origination at Sova Capital, a UK based Broker specializing in Emerging Markets. Previously, Alina was a managing director and the head of equity Capital markets at Gazprom bank. And before that, the head of ECM origination in Russia and CIS that's the Commonwealth of independent states at City. Alina clan the ranks at Bank of America Merrill Lynch from an Analyst to Director. All those jobs have a strong focus on investment banking for emerging markets across Eastern Europe and the...2021-12-0948 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabMichael Berns of PwC - Busting Myths about AI in Finance and adoption its around the worldMichael Berns is Director for AI & FinTech at PwC. Michael has a broad background across blue chip names such as Morgan Stanley & Moody's as well as a range of smaller innovative AI Firms. Michael has been a Mentor and Judge for organizations like Startup Bootcamp, Virgin Money Startup, Cocoon Network, Level 39, MIT Inclusive Innovation Competition and the United Nations World Food Program. Michael is als a guest lecturer at London Business School and Mannheim Business School. Michael holds an Executive MBA from London Business School.  In this episode we revisit AI in Finance and Banking and we a...2021-11-1142 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabLutfey Siddiqi - Global Risk Management, and Diversity and Inclusion in Financial InstitutionsLutfey is a Visiting Professor-in-Practice (IDEAS - "Ranked #1 university-affiliated think-tank 2020") at LSE, the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he also is aMember of Scientific Advisory Board at the LSE Systemic Risk Centre. At LSE he is also Co-investigator of the Inclusion Initiative, a Former member of the LSE Court of Governors & Investment Committee. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore, where he also is part of the Advisory board of the Centre for Governance & Sustainability.  Furthermore, Lutfey is a Member of the Global Agenda Council or Global F...2021-10-2152 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabRobert Almgren - A Deep Dive into Optimal Trade Execution in Fixed Income and Futures Using Quantitative MethodsRobert Almgren is the Chief Scientist and co-founder of Quantitative Brokers. Rob was previously a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago, the University of Toronto, and currently teaches High-Frequency Markets at Princeton University. Prior to QB, Robert was a Managing Director and Head of Quantitative Strategies in the Electronic Trading Services group at Bank of America until 2008. Robert Almgren completed a B.S. in physics and a B.S. in mathematics at MIT, then an M.S. in Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton University. 2021-10-1449 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabTimo Pfeiffer - An Intro to Indices - creation, use cases, and maintenanceHello and Welcome to another episode of the Wall Street Lab Podcast.  I am currently in the offices of Solactive in Frankfurt. The second in person interview in a very long time. With me is today's guest: Timo Pfeiffer. Timo is the Chief Markets Officer of Solactive and in charge of Research, Sales, and Communications. He joined in 2017 as Head of Research & Business Development, after working for more than 15 years at Deutsche Bank, where he has held various management positions in London and Frankfurt. Most recently, he served as Managing Director in charge of Structured Products distribution i...2021-10-0752 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabMichaela Walsh - Founding the Women’s World Banking Movement, Financial Inclusion, and Female EntrepreneurshipOur guest today is Michaela Walsh. Michaela is an activist, scholar, mentor, educator, and author. She was the Founding President of Women’s World Banking. Women’s World Banking is the global leader in women’s financial inclusion. Prior to that, Michaela served as a Project Director for the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and as a Program Associate with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Michaela also was a pioneer woman manager with Merrill Lynch in Beirut, Lebanon, in the ’60s, and the first woman Partner of Boettcher & Company in the ’70s, and in 1980.  This episode is a rare o...2021-09-3046 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabDaniel Faggella - Use Cases for AI in Financial Services and where funding really goesDaniel Faggella is the Founder, CEO, and Head of Research at Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research. He is also a Member of the OECD Network of Experts on AI, a Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Daniel previously founded Science of Skill, CLVboost, and Black Diamond Mixed Martial Arts Academy, so we have someone with a very specific and similarly broad experience set. Dan also hosts a total of 3 podcast: The AI in Business Podcast, The AI in Consulting Podcast, The AI in Financial Services Podcast. Dan holds a Masters degree from the University of Pennsylvania in...2021-09-2345 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabHugo Bongers - Corporate Venture Capital, Grooming Unicorns, and Investing in StartupsHugo Bongers is the Head of ABN Amro Ventures, the 150 million Euro Corporate Venture Capital fund of Dutch Bank ABN Amro. His mission is to make strategic investments in early-stage (series A and onwards) tech and fintech companies which are relevant for the bank. His job is to scout for innovative companies, invest in them, connect them with relevant stakeholders within the bank. Hugo is on the board of a lot of startups, like solarisbank, penta, crosslend, just to name a view. Hugo has a background in acquisition finance and private equity. Hugo holds Masters degrees in law and...2021-09-1645 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabColin Lancaster - Global Macro Trading, Hedge Funds, The Covid Pandemic, and Market TrendsColin Lancaster is a 25-year Wall Street professional. He has run two of the highest profile global macro businesses for the top-performing hedge funds in the world and has worked directly for a number of the icons in the investing world. Most recently he was Head of Global Macro Strategies at Citadel and prior to that he was Head of Global Macro at Balyasny Asset Management. He has managed investment operations in London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Chicago, and San Francisco. Colin is a graduate of Princeton University and is a lawyer by training. Colin is...2021-09-0939 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabJC de Swaan from Princeton University - Finance as a Force for Good Jean-Christophe or JC de Swaan is a lecturer in the economics department at Princeton University, where he is affiliated with the Bendheim Center for Finance.  He teaches courses on ethics in finance and on Asian capital markets to undergraduate and graduate students.  He also teaches at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.  In the past he has taught at Yale University, Hong Kong UST, and Cheung Kong Business School in Beijing. Separately, JC de Swaan is a Partner at Cornwall Capital, an investment fund based in New York.  Prior to Cornwall, he was a senior advisor on China...2021-06-1057 minGründer GuideGründer Guide#15 "Das Navi für Gründer*innen" w/ Andreas von Hirschhausen (REACH)Andreas von Hirschhausen beschreibt sich selbst als Polymath - ein CFA Charterholder mit einem Financial Engineering Masterabschluss und einem guten Händchen für Networking, Verkauf, öffentliches Reden, Sprachen, Kochen und vieles mehr. Schon lange ist er selbst Podcast Host des Podcasts The Wall Street Lab, welcher sich mit Themen und Gästen aus der Finanzwelt befasst. Inzwischen ist er dabei sein Start-up Reach aufzubauen.In dieser Folge spricht Andreas von Hirschhausen mit Sophia über seinen Weg vom Angestellten zum Entrepreneur, was er als Teilnehmer des Batch #2 des HHL DIGITAL SPACE mitnehmen konnte und teilt seine Erfahrungen zur Ideenfindung und Mögli...2021-06-0429 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabPatrick Lowry of Iconic & Cryptology - Institutional Crypto Adoption, BTC ETPs, Bitcoin Mining and ESG, and NFTsPatrick Lowry is the CEO and Managing Partner of Iconic Holding. Iconic Holding is a global crypto asset management group that started in 2017 with Iconic Lab, a global crypto VC and accelerator. Iconic also launched a series of crypto asset index vehicles under the Iconic Funds brand. Patrick is also the CEO of Cryptology Asset Group. Cryptology is a Malta based investment company investing in crypto assets and companies around the world with portfolio companies including Block.one, nextmarkets and Iconic. Cryptology is the largest publicly traded holding company for blockchain companies and crypto assets. Previously, Patrick...2021-05-2758 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabBashar Al Natoor from Fitch Ratings - Islamic Finance, Intro, Challenges, and OpportunitiesBashar Al-Natoor is Fitch Rating’s Global Head Islamic Finance. Bashar is responsible for coordinating all Islamic Finance activities across Fitch’s Sovereign, Financial Institutions, Corporate, Structured Finance, Infrastructure and Insurance teams. Bashar has more than 16 years’ experience in the Islamic Finance market. Prior to joining Fitch, Bashar spent seven years at the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) in key roles. Bashar graduated with an MSc in banking and financial studies from the Arab Academy for Finance and Banking Science and a BS in finance and banking from Amman University. Bashar is also a Certified Bank Auditor (CBA), a Certified Risk Pr...2021-05-1357 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabRadboud Vlaar from Finch Capital - Venture Capital Investments into European FintechsRadboud Vlaar is a Managing Partner at Finch Capital, a VC investor based out of Amsterdam.  Prior to launching Finch Capital and its first fund in 2013, Radboud was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, focused on Financial Services, PE, and M&A. Prior to McKinsey, Radboud worked at TPG, co-founded 3 companies. Radboud holds four Master's Degrees from the University in Groningen. Radboud leads the firms' investments in ZOPA, Fixico, BUX, Safened, Salviol, DIG (incl. KNIP and Komparu), Trussle, Supply Finance among others.   This episode is dedicated to VC investments into Fintech startups. We have a look into investing in AI companies wit...2021-04-2952 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabBrett King - The Ultimate Fintech EpisodeBrett King is a futurist, an Amazon bestselling author, an award-winning speaker, host the globally recognized radio show Breaking Banks, is the Founder and Executive Chairman of neo-bank Moven. He advised the Obama administration on the Future of Banking. Brett has spoken at TED conferences, given opening keynotes for Wired, Techsauce, Singularity University, Web Summit, The Economist, IBM’s World of Watson, CES, SIBOS, and many more. He has appeared as a commentator on CNN, CNBC, BBC, ABC, Fox, and Bloomberg. He previously advised the Obama administration on Fintech policy and advises regulators and bank boards around the world on...2021-04-151h 01The Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabStephen Stonberg - Cryptocurrencies, Tokenisation, and Regulation Stephen Stonberg is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Bittrex Global, one of the leading crypto trading platforms. Before joining Bittrex Global, Stephen held Managing Director positions with Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan, Credit Suisse, the Winton Group, and Goldman Sachs. He was Partner and CEO U.S. of the hedge fund Brevan Howard.  In this episode, we talk about all things crypto. We talk about the newest trends, the latest news, what's going on with regulation in the crypto space, and where Stephen sees regulation going. We talk about Ripple and their quarrel with the SEC...2021-04-0153 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabElizabeth Crain - Current Trends in M&A and Investment BankingElizabeth Crain is the Chief Operating Officer and a Founding Partner at Moelis & Company where she leads the Firm’s global strategy, infrastructure, and business management functions. Elizabeth has been in the investment banking and private equity industries for over 25 years as a banker, principal, and operations executive. Moelis is a global independent investment bank that has advised on more than $3.5 trillion on transactions, with deal sizes ranging from $100 million to $160billion. Prior to Moelis & Company, Elizabeth was a Managing Director in the UBS Investment Bank where she was the Manager of the Investment Bank Client Committee and a member of...2021-03-1156 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabChris Younger - Entrepreneur-First Investment BankingChris co-founded Class VI in 2005 with a mission to Enable the Entrepreneurial Spirit. Prior to Class VI, Chris spent more than 20 years gaining experience in executive management, marketing, sales, law, and mergers and acquisitions. Chris was a co-founder and President of Expanets, the nation’s largest provider of converged communications solutions. During his tenure with Expanets, Chris led the acquisition and integration of 27 companies, ranging in size from $2 million to over $1 billion in annual revenues, ultimately leading to its acquisition by Avaya in late 2003. Prior to Expanets, Chris was an associate with the law firm of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosat...2021-02-1154 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabMartin Boyd - Lessons from the largest fintech in the worldMartin is President of FIS Capital Market Solutions business. You might have heard of FIS because of their 43 billion Dollar acquisition of worldpay in 2019, which was the largest acquisition in the Fintech industry to date. FIS is the world's largest Fintech with over 10 billion USD in revenue and over 55,000 employees globally.  In this role, Martin is responsible for developing and delivering the technology and services that facilitate the movement, management and growth of money and global securities. He joined FIS in 2015 with the acquisition of SunGard, where he began his leadership journey in 1998. Over his 20 years with F...2021-01-2843 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabWeijian Shan - A Private Equity Deep Dive and Money GamesWeijian Shan is chairman and CEO of PAG, a leading Asia-focused private equity firm. Prior to PAG, he was a partner of TPG, and co-managing partner of TPG Asia (formerly known as Newbridge Capital).   Over two decades, Weijian Shan has led a number of landmark transactions. Previously, Shan was a managing director of JP Morgan, and an assistant professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco.    Shan is the author of Out of t...2021-01-071h 01The Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabStephan Feilhauer - Principal Investing in Infrastructure Tech StartupsStephan Feilhauer is a Managing Director at Macquarie Capital, the corporate advisory, capital markets and principal investment arm of Macquarie Group. Stephan leads Macquarie Capital’s growth equity investment, or investments on the firm’s own balance sheet, in the Infratech sector. Before Macquarie Capital, Stephan was a VP at Deutsche Bank, a Graduate Researcher at MIT, a Financial Economist at The World Bank, and a Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs. Stephan holds a Bachelors of Engineering in Business Finance from University College London and the London School of Economics and a Masters in Engineering and Economics from MIT. 2020-12-1046 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabRich Nuzum - Advising 16 Trillion Dollars in AssetsRich Nuzum is President of Mercer’s Investments & Retirement business and a member of Mercer’s Executive Leadership Team. Rich is also the Executive Sponsor for Mercer’s Pride Business Resource Network. Rich’s prior roles include President and Global Business Leader for Mercer’s Investment Management business and global Chief Investment Officer for Mercer’s Investment Management business. Rich holds an MBA (with high honors) in analytic finance and accounting from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree (with honors) in mathematical sciences and mathematical economic analysis from Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is a...2020-11-2659 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabMartin Hahn - An Overview of the Private Equity Investment SpaceMartin is Chief Executive Officer, Head of Business Development and a member of the Executive Committee of Capital Dynamics. He has over 30 years of experience in sales, marketing and general management. Prior to joining Capital Dynamics, Martin was an independent management consultant and CEO at TestQuest, Inc., a start-up software company in the US. Earlier in his career, he held general manager positions at several publicly traded technology companies in the US. Martin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Capital Dynamics is a global private asset in...2020-10-2259 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabRobert Santella - Voice Trading, Finch and becoming CEO of the YearRob is the CEO of IPC Systems, the leading voice trading company famous for their dealer turrets, which you can find on every trading floor. Previously, Rob was the President of Global Trading at FIS, the world’s largest Fintech and a Fortune 500 company. Before that, Rob was COO of several different companies. Rob recently won the CEO of the Year award. We speak about the past, present, and future of trading, especially voice trading. We dive into the effects of Covid19 on the trading world, how trading evolved in a working from home environment and how te...2020-08-1346 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabAndrew White – Intro to Regulation Technology (RegTech) and a Master Class in Company BootstrappingAndrew White is the founder and CEO of fundapps, a regulatory technology company founded 10 years ago. He completely bootstrapped fundapps and grew it from a small startup to over 60 people and 9 trillion USD in monitored client assets. The company provides Shareholder Disclosure software to Hedge Funds and other asset owners. Before founding fundapps, Andrew was a managing director at aquin components, a company that was acquired by State Street.  We start off our conversation by Andrew walking us through the space of regtech, giving us a history of the space, and how the regulation technology industry changed o...2020-07-1652 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabLila Preston – A Deep Dive into Sustainable and ESG InvestingLila Preston is a Partner at Generation Investment Management, and is Co-Head of the Growth Equity platform – Generation’s private equity fund.  Generation was, amongst others, founded by former US Vice President Al Gore. In Addition, Lila serves on the board of several companies. Lila holds a Bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and an MBA from London Business School.  In this episode we deep dive into the world of ESG and Sustainable Investing. Lila talks about Generation’s investment approach and process, from research, over pipeline building, deal sourcing, to the decision factors. We take you step by st...2020-07-0247 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabJacco Minnaar – How to Create Returns While Investing with ImpactJacco Minnaar is the Chair of the Management Board and Managing Director of Triodos Investment Management, a globally active, multi-billion Dollar Impact investor.  Jacco has 25 years of experience in the financial and investment industry. Prior to his current position as Chair, he served Triodos across various positions including Director of Energy and Climate, Fund Manager of Triodos Fair Share Fund, and Regional Manager of Africa and Latin America. Before joining Triodos in 2006, he managed the Financial Markets Development Program of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in the Mekong region. Jacco holds a Master of Science degree in In...2020-06-1833 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabClare Flynn Levy – Using Data to Preserve Alpha as a Fund ManagerClare Flynn Levy, Founder and CEO of Essentia Analytics, a behavioral data analytics service that helps professional investors make measurably better investment decisions. She also sits on the board of several and before founding Essentia, she was active as a fund manager, both for a company she founded herself and big names like DWS. Clare tells us how data analytics can be used to become a better fund manager by analysing decision patters. She goes into a concept called the alpha lifecycle. We talk about trends in the asset management industry like AI, blockchain, or model delivery.2020-06-0447 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabToby Main - Venture Capital, Private Equity, and MentoringToby is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Efficient Frontier Investing, a Swiss financial product engineering firm. He also founded Isla Capital Management, a company that providers bespoke financial Solutions in Asset Management and Advisory Services. Before he was active as as Interim CIO at Status Capital and active in several Roles at Bedrock Group, one of Europe’s biggest Family Offices.  Toby tells us his approach on getting returns above the efficient frontier by understanding, quantifying and managing risk. Toby takes us through their Investment Process and gives us some great insights into the Private Equity Mar...2020-05-2847 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#52 Gregory Zuckerman – Insights into Wall Street and the Man Who Solved the MarketGregory Zuckerman is a Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal, a 23-year veteran of the paper and a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb award - the highest honor in business journalism. Greg is the author of five books: The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution; The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters; The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History; Rising Above: How 11 Athletes Overcame Challenges in Their Youth to Become Stars and Rising Above...2020-05-2135 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#51 Howie Li - Thematic Investing and the Future of Asset ManagementHowie is the Head of ETF for Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM). Prior to joining LGIM, Howie was the CEO of Canvas, an ETF platform acquired by Legal and General in 2018. Prior to that, Howie trained and worked at Simmons & Simmons in London advising the hedge fund industry. LGIM is with 1.5 trillion USD AuM among the 20 largest Asset Managers in the world. This episode is all about trends. We talk about thematic investments and the underlying trends. Howie leads us through the thematic investment process LGIM makes with examples like changes in e-commerce. We also talk...2020-05-1443 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#50 Anniversary Episode aka Our Random ShowToday we have some absolutely non-special guests. We talk to…ourselves. To celebrate our 50th episode we made our own random episode, talking about our founding story and sharing some background on our professional lives. We also share some of our favourite episodes, books, podcasts, online learning resources and a bunch of nonsense comments. If you expect deep insights into a new financial topic, better wait for the next episode. If you want to know a bit more about us und get some recommendations, please stay and enjoy the episode.2020-05-0744 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#49 Peter Chun - Asian M&A TrendsPeter Chun is the founder of Silverbear Capital, a globally positioned consulting and investment banking firm. Peter Chun has nearly 20 years of International finance expertise. He specialises in corporate restructuring, corporate finance, and M&A. He has worked with and represented companies of all sizes and configurations. He also brings listing experience in Korea, Toronto, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, and in the US, as well as experience in the private equity/ pre-IPO arena. In our conversation we discuss: * Asian mergers & acquisitions trends * The biggest biggest differences in M&A in US / EU and Asia...2020-04-3039 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#48 Howard Marks – The Most Important ThingHoward Marks is co-chairman and co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management a leading global investment firm with deep expertise in credit strategies, which manages more than $120 billion in assets. Howard is the bestselling author of the two highly influential books: "Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side" and "The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor". He is also known for his very insightful investor letters, which has been claimed to be must-read material by many well-known investors, including none other than Warren Buffett. Howard holds a B.S.Ec. degree from the Wharton School...2020-04-1646 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#47 Chris Schelling - Assessing the People Behind Private Equity FundsChristopher (“Chris”) Schelling is the Director responsible for Private Equity investments at Texas Municipal Retirement System (“TMRS”). Prior to joining TRMS, Chris served as Deputy Chief Investment Officer and Director of Absolute & Real Return at Kentucky Retirement Systems and as an Adjunct Professor of Finance at University of Kentucky, where he taught a class in Alternative Investments.  He If you are an allocator and want to know more about how some of the best in the business go about vetting their private equity fund managers, this episode is for you! Aside from being a well-known columnist for Instituti...2020-04-0254 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#46 Dan Houlihan - Asset Servicing, Behind the Scenes of Asset ManagementDan Houlihan is an Executive Vice President and Head of Northern Trust Asset Servicing for the Americas. Prior to joining Northern Trust, Dan spent 19 years in numerous leadership positions across several companies in the investment management, technology, and service space. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board for the National Investment Company Service Association (NICSA) and as a Director on the Advisors Investment Trust.  We talk about the asset servicing business and its various components like custody, fund administration, investor servicing and outsourced solutions across the front, middle and back office. We touch on trends in t...2020-03-1945 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#45 Daniel Crosby - Deep Dive into Behavioral FinanceDaniel Crosby is a New York Times Bestselling author with books like “Personal Benchmark”, “The Laws of wealth”, and “The behavioral investor”. He is also the Chief Behavioral Officer of Brinker Capital. He spoke at TEDx in Huntsville and hosts the podcast “Standard deviations”. Daniel holds a PhD in Psychology from Brigham Young University. We talk about his role as Chief Behavioural Officer, the insights of his several books and how to apply the learnings from behavioural finance in real life. We dive into the psychology of human beings, how investors can stick with their portfolio during difficult times...2020-03-0553 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#44 Paolo Sironi - Fintech, Innovation, and Financial Market TransparencyPaolo Sironi is the Author of several books including “Financial Market Transparency” or “Fintech Innovation”. He is a Fintech Advisor for IBM, Fintech Thought Leader, co-host of the podcast “breaking banks europe”, and member of the advisory boards of several companies. In the past, Paolo founded his own fintech startup as a joint venture of German Private Bank Sal. Oppenheim and Fitch ratings. Before that he was working as Director of Risk Management at the large Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo. We talk about his different books, the insights he gained from his research and how his views developed ov...2020-02-2248 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#43 Michael O'Sullivan - Economics, Globalization, and the life of a CIOMichael O’Sullivan is the author of the book 'The Levelling' - What's Next After Globalisation? He has a blog with the same name. He is a World Economic Forum Global Futures Council member and Forbes contributor. Michael holds a PhD from Oxford and is the former Chief Investment Officer for International Wealth Management of Credit Suisse. We talk about his different roles, like being an equity strategist and of course his work as CIO for Credit Suisse. We talk about education and Michael lets us in on his career advice, what it takes to succeed in Fi...2020-02-0940 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#42 Jorge Tavio - The Data that Powers Financial MarketsJorge Tavio is the Market Development Director, Wealth EMEA for Refinitiv. Refinitiv is one of the largest market data providers on the planet with more than 40,000 clients in 190 countries. In his current role Jorge is leading the wealth market development team in EMEA. He and his team are connecting the dots between new technology, regulation, new business models and innovative customer experiences. His previous roles included being the Head of Partners and Digital Innovation Continental Europe and several Specialist roles within Refinitiv (former Thomson Reuters). The episode was recorded in July 2019 With over 20 years of...2020-01-2433 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#41 Christina Qi - High Frequency Trading, Hedge Funds, and Women in FinanceChristina Qi serves as Founding Partner at Domeyard LP, among the longest running HFT hedge funds in the world, and CEO of Databento, a unified data discovery platform. She started Domeyard 8 years ago with $1000 in savings. Domeyard trades up to $1 billion USD per day. Her company’s story has been featured on the front page of Forbes and Nikkei, and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNN, NBC, and the Financial Times. Christina is a contributor to the World Economic Forum’s research on AI in finance. She is a visiting lecturer at MIT, including Nobel Laureate Robert Mert...2020-01-0948 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#40 Uwe Wystup - Quantitative Finance and Exotic OptionsUwe Wystup is the founder and Managing Director of MathFinance, a quantitative finance advisory firm. They specialize in the development of state-of-the art models for trading, sales and risk management. Their focus is on FX options, the volatility surface and structured derivatives. Uwe is also a Professor of Financial Option Price Modeling at the University of Antwerp, Honorary Professor at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, was a Visiting Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Finance. Please keep in mind this is not investment advice. Full disclaimer at the end of...2019-12-1747 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#39 Markus Koch - Telling the Stories of Wall StreetMarkus Koch is a German Wall Street journalist and entrepreneur. He started trading friends & families money very early and had 70k€ debt at age 17. He then paid back the money by working at Bear Sterns before starting his own journalism company. Markus acted as Economic Advisor for the Web-Series “We, the economy”, produced by Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen and was part of the Introduction of the Hollywood-Blockbuster Wall Street, Money never Sleeps” in Germany. What does Star Wars, Jazz, or Casanova have to do with Finance? Markus brings Wall Street to retail investors. This interview provides...2019-11-2946 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#38 Andreas Lukic - Angel Investing and Venture CapitalAndreas Lukic is the Managing Partner of ValueNet Capital Partners, a Private Equity Firm based in Frankfurt. He is also the honorary Chairman of the Business Angels FrankfurtRheinmain e.V., one of the biggest Angel Investor networks of Europe where he engages to grow the Frankfurt Angel and Venture Capital ecosystem. Andreas has worked in Private Equity, Venture Capital and has been an Angel Investor himself for many years. We spend a lot of time talking about the difference in Angel Investing, Venture Capital, and Private Equity. We also talk about how the investment process changes in a...2019-10-0358 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#37 Mark Yusko – (Part 2) CEO and CIO of Morgan Creek Capital ManagementPART 2 - Mark Yusko is the Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer at Morgan Creek Capital Management, a company that provides investment management services to institutions and wealthy families. Prior to forming Morgan Creek, Mark was the President, Chief Investment Officer and Founder of UNC Management Company, the endowment investment office for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to that, Mark was the Senior Investment Officer for the University of Notre Dame Investment office, where he joined as an Assistant Investment Officer in October of 2003. We spend a lot of time talking about...2019-09-1954 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#36 Mark Yusko – CEO and CIO of Morgan Creek Capital Management (Part 1)Mark Yusko is the Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer at Morgan Creek Capital Management, a company that provides investment management services to institutions and wealthy families. Prior to forming Morgan Creek, Mark was the President, Chief Investment Officer and Founder of UNC Management Company, the endowment investment office for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to that, Mark was the Senior Investment Officer for the university of Notre Dame Investment office, where he joined as an Assistant Investment Officer in October of 2003. We spend a lot of time talking about asset allocation...2019-09-0541 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#35 Gerard Tong - The unromantic truth about becoming a traderIf you always wanted to have a real and unromantic view on what it takes to be a trader, this is the episode for you. Gerard is Principle at Epitrain, a financial markets, business, and project management training company. He also teaches Trading courses at the National University of Singapore, one of Asia’s most prestigious universities and Singapore Management University. Gerard has been in the realms of trading since 1992, the very early days of trading in Singapore. In the past 25 years, from open outcry to electronic trading, he has seen it all.  With his company he is working clo...2019-08-0245 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#34 Paul Smith - President and CEO of the CFA InstituteThis week, we had the pleasure to speak to the current (as of July 2019) CEO of the CFA Institute, Paul Smith. In our conversation, we cover some of Paul’s challenges in running the CFA Institute during his almost 5-year tenure, the future of the investment management industry, his vision for the organization, why he thinks it is important to have a mandatory Continuing Professional Development requirement for CFA Charterholders, as well as why he thinks young professionals interested in in investment management should strive to become CFA Charterholders. For more visit: www.thewallstreetlab.com 2019-07-1847 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#33 David Salem - A Deep Dive into Capital Allocation#33 David Salem - A Deep Dive into Capital Allocation   This interview is a true master class for anyone interested in capital allocation and manager selection. We had the great pleasure to speak to David Salem, the Co-Chairman of New Providence Asset Management, a firm that provides investment office solutions for endowments, foundations and family offices. David is also a contributor to Epsilon Theory, an online community in which he writes extremely thoughtful articles about investment management and combines it with his passion for the game of baseball.   Before assuming his current po...2019-07-051h 08The Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#32 Iven Kurz – Passive Dynamic InvestingWe had the pleasure to chat with Iven Kurz, founder and CEO of Evergreen GmbH. Evergreen is a German retirement focused Robo advisor. Before founding his own company, Iven was a total return fund manager for two of the biggest German Private Banks. The total return investing style Iven uses is called Passive Dynamic Investing, which is based on the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Theory and he used for many years. We dive deep into the weeds of this investment form and see why it is being used for retirement saving. Please keep in mind this is not investment advice...2019-06-1354 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#31 Joseph Lau – How to Become a Financial Modelling World ChampionThis week’s episode is a treat to all of the excel geeks out there. We are delighted to share the conversation we had with Joseph Lau, the only 2-time Financial Modelling World Champion at the ModelOff competition. We cover many interesting topics, ranging from his experience competing at the ModelOff competition, common mistakes people make in financial modelling, and tips on how to excel (pun intended) at financial modelling. Besides being a World Champion in his spare time, Joseph is a Director of Project Finance at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He is also a Co-founder of Spreadsheet Ad...2019-05-3029 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#30 Charlie Eaton - Pioneering the Placement Agent IndustryThis week we are talking about the placement agent business in the alternative investments space. We could not have imagined finding a better person to discuss this topic with than Charles “Charlie” Eaton, the Founder of Eaton Partners and one of the pioneers of the whole industry. Charlie founded Eaton Partners in 1983 as one of the first and now one of the largest placement agents in the world. Eaton Partners was acquired by Stifel Financial in 2016. According to Eaton Partners’ website, it has been widely recognized as the world’s leading placement agent. Since the firm’s founding...2019-05-1755 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#29 Dan Rasmussen - Disrupting Private EquityDan Rasmussen is the Founder and Portfolio Manager at Verdad, a hedge fund that attempts to replicate privately-equity like returns through investments in publicly listed highly leveraged micro-caps. Before starting Verdad, Dan worked at Bain Capital and Bridgewater Associates. Dan graduated from Harvard summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is the New York Times bestselling author of American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt. In 2017, he was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list. In the episode we talked about: Re...2019-05-0345 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#28 Otavio Costa - Global Macro Hege Fund Research, Economic Indicators and Business CycleOtavio Costa has been an analyst on Crescat’s investment team for more than five years with a focus on global cross-asset research. “Tavi” built Crescat’s macro model that identifies the current stage of the US economic cycle through a combination of 16 factors. His research has been featured multiple times in financial publications such as Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal. Tavi is a native of São Paulo, Brazil and is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Before joining Crescat, he worked with the underwriting of financial products and in international business at Braservice, a large logistics company in Brazil...2019-04-181h 02The Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#27 Joern Czech - Alternative Investments, Investment Banking and Entrepreneurship in FinanceJoern Czech is the Co-Founder and Manager of IANUA Market Limited, an Alternative Investment platform and intelligence hub, founded in 2018. They simplify Alternative Investing for professional investors, co-invest with them into curated investment opportunities. Joern’s career started in Trading for a local German bank before he moved into Institutional Sales for Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. Just before founding IANUA, Joern was a partner and Head of Business Development and Investor Relations at a London-based Hedge Fund called SCIO Capital LLP. In this episode we talk about the financial crisis and the credit crunch, we provide insights into th...2019-03-2840 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#26 Tobias Schulz - Venture Capital, Market Trends, German VC Ecosystem, Portfolio Management and How to Become a VCTobias Schulz is an Investment Manager at HTGF. High-Tech Gründerfonds is one of Europe’s biggest venture capital groups and an early stage seed investor focused on high potential high-tech start-ups. Before joining HTGF Tobias has worked as an entrepreneur and has experience in the private equity industry. In the episode we talked about the following topics: How to manage a big portfolio of Startups The venture capital market trends Europe vs US VC market How do startups scale? How do VC investment managers make decisions How do you get a job as a VC Dif...2019-03-1438 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#25 Michael John Lytle - ETF Business, Fixed Income, CDS and the Financial CrisisMichael John (‘MJ’) Lytle is the CEO of Tabula Investment Management, a provider of fixed income ETFs. Tabula aims to bring investors precise credit exposure. He also was a founding partner of Source, a ETF Provider, which as of 2017 is part of Invesco. He also was a founding partner of Source, a ETF Provider, which as of 2017 is part of Invesco. At Source we was the Chief Development Officer, with specific responsibility for marketing and broader involvement in product creation and design. MJ was also part of Morgan Stanley and BlackRock.    We talk about...2019-02-2859 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabUpdate: End of Season IIWe are taking a little breather! Season 2 of The Wall Street Lab podcast is coming to an end. As much as we regret not being part of your commute for the next 3 months, we look back to the interviews we conducted in Season 2 with great satisfaction. As in Season 1, the focus was in finding great guests to share their insights with us about their niche in the finance world with you, which this season included hedge funds, private equity, artificial intelligence, shipping finance, corporate VC, just to name a few. We hope to continue to do that when...2018-07-0602 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#24 Kerstin Eichmann & Moritz Jungmann - Corporate Venture Capital, Machine Economy and the Future of EnergyKerstin Eichmann and Moritz Jungmann are a part of the Innogy Innovation Hub which is the corporate venture capital arm of Innogy.
The Innogy Innovation Hub and Innogy Ventures are funded by Innogy SE, a leading German energy company with revenue of around €43 billion (2017), more than 42,000 employees and activities in 16 countries across Europe. Innogy Innovation Hub, is looking to drive game-changing ideas that can revolutionise an existing business model or industry permanently. The key focus areas of IIH include: ‘Machine Economy’, ‘Smart & Connected’, ‘Disruptive Digital’ and ‘Cyber Ventures’.  In our conversation, we talked about the difference between co...2018-06-2239 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#23 Peter Schwicht - Asset Management, Megatrends, ESG Investing, Financial Research and RegulationPeter Schwicht is the former CEO of JP Morgan Asset Management EMEA. He held various positions in JP Morgan over the years including being the head of trading for JP Morgan Germany. Currently he is sitting on the board of many companies and continuing to share his expertize. In the interview, we touch on many topics such as: Megatrends in Asset management as well as ESG investing and how regulation impacts the asset management industry. More of the topics we cover in the interview are: Megatrends in asset management The raise of passive asset management Perspective...2018-06-0846 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#22 Sven Korschinowski - Future of Payments, Banking, Fintech Regulation and How to Become a PartnerSven Korschinowski is Partner for Payments and Banking at KPMG, one of the big four auditing and consulting companies. Before that he worked for a long time at Deutsche Bank in various countries. In our conversation we have a wide-ranging conversation from consulting, over fintech, payment, banking, innovation, blockchain, and for the ambitious among you: career advice on becoming a partner at KPMG. Topics we cover in the interview: Introduction and career advice in consulting Fintech vs incumbents, what are the chances and weaknesses of both How to succeed as a startup How much is hype...2018-05-2453 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#21 Olaf Danckwerts - Ship Finance and the Shipping IndustryOlaf Danckwerts has spent many years working on ship finance deals for some of the biggest banks and financial institutions in the shipping finance and restructuring fields. In our conversation we cover the topic such as: introduction the ship finance field, what characteristics does ship finance as an asset class have and how deals typically look like in that space... Oh and also pirates.  Topics we cover in the interview: Introduction to ship finance and the shipping industry How does ship finance compare to real estate and other asset classes Who are the major players involved i...2018-05-1041 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#20 Stefan Schuetze & Juan Rodriguez - Venture Capital, Fintech, Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain and ICOsStefan Schuetze & Juan Rodriguez are both part of the board of directors of Finlab AG, one of the first and one of the largest German company builders and investors in the financial services technology sector. Both Stefan and Juan have extensive experience in working in the Venture Capital, Fintech and Startups space. In the conversation we take a deep dive into the topic ranging from venture capital and fintech to blockchain and ICOs.  Some of the topics we discuss in the interview include: How to become a managing director at a VC Fund? How top VCs c...2018-04-2650 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#19 Jane Coffey - Financial Careers, Asset Management and Behavioral FinanceJane Coffey is an experienced financial professional and an executive coach. She has extensive experience in asset management having been the head of equities and executive director as well as an investment professional across various well respected institutions. She is also heavily involved with the CFA institute in the UK. In our conversation with Jane we discussed various aspects of financial careers, asset management and behavioural finance. Here are a few topics we have discussed: How to get into investment banking / asset management How ESG affects the investment environment How to find a finance career that w...2018-04-1253 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#18 Prof. Oliver Gottschalg - Private Equity Research, Performance Persistence and Data AcquisitionProf. Oliver Gottschalg is one of the leading researchers in private equity space. He is a an associate professor at HEC Paris but also among other things he is a co-founder and head of research at Peracs, a firm providing analytics and research on private equity investments. In our conversation with Prof Gottschalg we discussed various aspects of private equity as an asset class, performance measurements in the space as well as various other related topics. Here are a few items we have touched on: How to measure performance of private equity funds How does bridging...2018-03-2955 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#17 Ralf Heim - Fintechs, Robo-advice, AI & EntrepreneurshipRalf Heim is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Fincite, a digital wealth management fintech and one of the fastest growing startups in Germany currently employing over 60 people. He has a developer background. He has worked for two startups. He started developing database mostly for logistics companies as a freelancer beginning with 16. He very early joined a business intelligence startup and quickly rose in ranks to head the business development and joining the extended management board. After the company called Cundus, was sold, he and his two co-founders started Fincite and managed to develop it into one of the fastest g...2018-03-1550 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#16 Carl Richards - Wealth Management Behavioral Finance and Simplifying Financial ConceptsCarl Richards has a financial wealth management background and has been working for some of the largest financial institutions out there in various advisory roles. He is best known for being a creator of the Sketch Guy column, appearing weekly in the New York Times since 2010. Carl has also featured on Marketplace Money, Oprah.com and Forbes.com. In addition, Carl has become a frequent keynote speaker at financial planning conferences and visual learning events around the world.Through his simple sketches, Carl makes complex financial concepts easy to understand. His sketches also serve as the foundation for his t...2018-03-0150 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#15 Jack Schwager - Market Wizards, Market Efficiency and What Makes a Great TraderJack Schwager is a recognized industry expert in futures and hedge funds and the author of a number of widely acclaimed financial books including the Market Wizards series. Mr. Schwager is one of the founders of Fund Seeder. Mr. Schwager was a partner in the Fortune Group (2001-2010), a London-based hedge fund advisory firm. His prior experience also includes 22 years as Director of Futures research for some of Wall Street’s leading firms, most recently Prudential Securities. Guess who is back! We are so excited to bring to you the second season of The Wall Str...2018-02-1549 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabTWSL Season 2 TrailerAfter a long summer break The Wall Street Lab Podcast is back! Check out the new trailer. We are kicking off the season 2 on February 15th! We are looking forward to talking to you soon! Find more information at: www.TheWallStreetLab.com2018-01-1306 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabUpdate: End of Season IThat’s it guys – The Wall Street Lab will be taking a summer break and will be back in a few months with the next season. “Whoa, what? Why?”, I hear you say. Do you want good reasons, or the true reasons? read all about it in the blogpost below: http://www.thewallstreetlab.com/update-end-of-season-i/ We will be back soon! Subscribe to the newsletter on our website to stay up to date! www.thewallstreetlab.com 2017-06-1503 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#14 Dan Kemp - Using Behavioral Finance to Make Better Investment DecisionsDan Kemp is the Chief Investment Officer for the EMEA region at Morningstar Investment Management. Dan has a very interesting background. For instance, he holds a BA in Theology at Kings College in London - we spend quite a bit of time talking about how his non-business background has helped him in his investment career. Prior to joining Morningstar Investment Management, he was a Founder and Partner at Albemarle Street Partners, an investment advisory firm that assists advisors in client risk profiling, fund research, portfolio construction and asset allocation. Prior to that, he was a Multi-Asset Fund of Funds...2017-06-011h 03The Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#13 Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner - Blockchain, Digital Currencies and Smart ContractsProf. Dr. Philipp Sandner is Head of the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management where he analyses implications of blockchain technology on companies and business models.  Prof. Sandner is also member of the FinTechRat – a council for financial technology of the Federal Ministry of Finance in Germany. In our interview this week we discuss the Blockchain technology and its potential implications. Prof. Dr. Sandner answers all our questions and more regarding the Blockchain and closely related technologies such as smart contracts, digital currencies and other applications of this revolutionary invention. As the con...2017-05-1852 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#12 Joerg de Vries-Hippen - Equity Research and Portfolio Management with Allianz Global Investors' CIO of European EquitiesJörg de Vries-Hippen is the CIO for European Equities at Allianz Global Investors. He has built his career within AGI and has been part of the organization for 25 years since he finished his M.B.A. degree from the Universit of Mannheim in Germany. In this interview, we cover a wide range of topics such as the skills needed to succeed as a portfolio manager, the importance of both technical knowledge and the communication skills to be able to sell the story to prospective clients, how he handles uncertainty as a central part of his job a...2017-05-0436 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#11 [Special] How to Pass the CFA ExamsMost of you are familiar with the CFA designation – the one that makes you lose at least 3 Springs of your life (if you are lucky), your friendships and sometimes your partner. The one that makes you, according to CFA Institute’s statistics, read 8,914 pages of material, study 3,865 equations and take 18 hours of examinations. It is true that studying for it can be a very daunting and time consuming task. But if you are really interested in it (and I am not here trying to convince you to become a CFA charterholder – although I think it is a great thing to do...2017-04-2147 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#10 Ian Morgan - How to get into Investment BankingIan Morgan is a former Managing Director at Société Générale who, after over 20 years as an investment banker, decided to become an entrepreneur in order to follow his passion. He is now an  executive coach who provides a tailored coaching service designed specifically for finance industry professionals, in the fields of leadership, career management and interviewing. He is passionate about helping individuals reach new levels of achievement and performance. for the full show notes go to: http://www.thewallstreetlab.com/  If the interview was valuable to you, make sure to take a few sec...2017-04-0652 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#09 Alexander Doll - CEO of Barclays Germany Perspective on Investment Banking and M&AAlexander Doll is the CEO of Barclays Germany and the Head of Banking for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Prior to his role at Barclays, Mr. Doll served as a Managing Director of Financial Advisory Business at Lazard.  Mr. Doll joined Lazard after eight years with UBS. His previous experience also includes working for Lehman Brothers in New York and Frankfurt. For the full show notes please go to: http://www.thewallstreetlab.com/ Have you asked yourself what the best-case scenario for your career would be? I mean, if everything goes extremely well – you get along with y...2017-03-2330 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#08 Dr. Thomas Bloch - Fintechs, Robo-Advisors and The New BankingDr. Thomas Bloch is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Vaamo, a leading German Robo-Advisory platform. Prior to founding an asset management fintech Dr. Bloch has worked in investment banking for J.P. Morgan for almost 9 years. This unique set of experiences makes our today’s guest an amazing conversation partner as he shares valuable insights as seen from both sides of the table. In our conversation, we jump from topic as we discuss the history of Vaamo as well as the current fintech environment and the struggles of founding a financial startup. We also get very deep in...2017-03-0940 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#07 Steven Gerbel - Merger Arbitrage Hedge Fund Investing  Steven Gerbel is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Chicago Capital Management, a US-based merger arbitrage hedge fund. Steven has over 20 years of experience in hedge funds focused on merger arbitrage and convertible arbitrage markets. Prior to founding Chicago Capital Management, Steven was a general partner at First Capital Management LP, a Chicago-based hedge fund focused on merger and convertible arbitrage, value investing, and distressed markets. Prior to this, Steven traded commodities on the Mid-American Commodities Exchange at the Chicago Board of Trade. He holds a bachelor of science in economics degree from DePaul University. 2017-02-2340 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#06 Dr. Nelson Lacey, CFA - A Deeper Look Into the CAIA DesignationDr. Nelson Lacey, CFA is a professor of finance at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts. He earned his PhD in finance from the Pennsylvania State University and he also holds the CFA charter. Professor Lacey has been at CAIA since its inception. He has been active in working on the program’s curriculum and examination and became a Director of Exams in 2004. Professor Lacey’s academic work has led to over 50 publications in finance and economics. He is also the co-author of the book Modern Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice. For the full...2017-02-0943 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#05 Richard Lucas - Angel InvestingRichard Lucas is an angel investor who is currently involved with close to 20 different companies across a variety of industries. He has made many investments into world-class startups over the years, including deals with startups backed by the likes of Y Combinator. For example, Richard was an early investor in the company Estimote, which won the 2013 Tech Crunch disrupt in the Hardware category. Part of the reason why Richard is such a fascinating person to talk to, is that he is involved in a variety of projects outside of his main work. He is the founder of Cambentrepreneurs, an...2017-01-261h 06The Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#04 Brian Tomlinson, CMT - Fixed Income Investing with a Global Portfolio ManagerBrian Tomlinson, CMT is currently a Global Fixed Income Portfolio Manager at Allianz Global Investors. Prior to joining AllianzGI, he spent 7 years at Pimco as a Portfolio Manager. He also worked at other companies well known to most of us, such as Merrill Lynch, Citi Bank, Dresdner Bank and IBM. for the full shownotes and more go: to: http://www.thewallstreetlab.com/episode-04-brian-tomlinson-cmt-fixed-income-investing-with-a-global-portfolio-manager/  If you are one of those who think fixed income is boing, I can almost guarantee you that you will change your mind after listening to our conversation with Brian. Not on...2017-01-121h 01The Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#03 Marcus Storr - Hedge Fund InvestingMarcus Storr is the Head of Hedge Funds at FERI Trust, a German asset management company and one of the largest investors in Alternative Assets in Germany. Marcus has held various positions in the investment industry over the years, including being a Vice-President for Global Equities at Robert Flemings in London, which is now part of JP Morgan, and a Director of Global Equities at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. For the full show notes and to subscribe go to:http://www.thewallstreetlab.com/episode-03-marcus-storr-hedge-fund-investing/  Let me tell you: you are in for a real treat! A...2016-12-2955 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#02 Oliver Schebela, CFA – Private Equity Fund InvestingOliver Schebela, CFA is the Head of Private Equity Solutions of Bethmann Bank, a traditional German private bank, wholly owned by ABN AMRO. Prior to this, he spent 7 years at FERI Trust, where he started as a Private Equity Manager and worked his way up to Head of Private Equity. In his earlier days (he is still very young), he worked at Credit Suisse and at Commerzbank. For the full show notes and to subscribe go to: http://www.thewallstreetlab.com/episode-02-oliver-schebela-cfa-private-equity-fund-investing/  This is a special episode for us. Not necessarily for the great co...2016-12-1555 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street Lab#01 Simon Hirst – Investment Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Investments  Simon Hirst has spent the majority of is live in various leadership positions within the M&A and Private Equity industries, including 12 years at Lehman Brothers. He also served as a Global Co-Head of Mergers and Acquisitions at Commerzbank and as the CEO of a London Stock Exchange listed company. In addition Simon is a co-founder and a managing partner of Tri-Artizan Partners a boutique merchant bank. He is also a visiting professor at some of the top European business schools, such as the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Cass Business School, as well as IE. ...2016-12-0141 minThe Wall Street LabThe Wall Street LabEpisode #00 The Wall Street Lab - 2016 Trailer  Welcome to The Wall Street Lab!!! That’s it! After months of preparation, including getting used to listening to the recording of our own voices, The Wall Street Lab is finally live! Luke and I are really excited about starting this journey with all of you. We really believe we have put together something special that will hopefully add some value to your careers in finance. So what are we all about? We started The Wall Street Lab to provide you with exclusive insights into the world of finance. We strive to offer you access to practical information that can...2016-12-0104 min