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Rosemont Roundtable: Exploring the Business of Investment ManagementInside the OCIO World: Trends, Challenges, and OpportunitiesIn this episode of Rosemont Roundtable, Brad Mook and Chas Burkhart speak with Amanda Tepper and Ravi Venkataraman, leaders of Chestnut Advisory Group and their new market research division, The Chestnut Solutions Institute.The discussion lifts the hood on the OCIO/investment solutions industry, exploring how the space is defined, competitive challenges and growth opportunities, firm approaches, keys to sustainability, M&A trends, the wealth management segment's growing popularity, and more. All four participants bring long investment experience and varied backgrounds to this insightful conversation, offering valuable perspectives for anyone involved in or following the evolution of...2025-04-1550 min
The Solutions ScoopBuilding Sustainable Solutions Businesses: A Conversation with RosemontThis podcast is being jointly presented by the Chestnut Solutions Institute and Rosemont Investment Group, two firms that are deeply involved and invested in the successful growth of the solutions industry, each playing a very different and unique role in the solutions ecosystem. The conversation features:Chas Burkhart, CEO, Rosemont Investment GroupBrad Mook, Managing Director, Investments & Finance, Rosemont Investment GroupRavi Venkataraman, Managing Partner, Chestnut Advisory GroupAmanda Tepper, Managing Partner, Chestnut Advisory GroupIn our roundtable we discuss:How i...2025-04-1448 minThe Solutions ScoopPension Investment SolutionsPension plans face an array of choices in managing and overseeing their investments depending upon their circumstances, objectives and resources. These critical decisions require active engagement with constant evolution and innovation. Ravi Venkataraman hosts this discussion with our guests that include leading pension solutions practitioners and a CIO that oversees one of the largest US pension plans:Jeanmarie GrisiChief Investment Officer, Pension InvestmentsNokiaJared GrossManaging Director, Head of Institutional Portfolio StrategyJP Morgan Asset ManagementEumene LeeM...2024-12-0347 minThe Solutions ScoopAsset Owners Guide to Investment SolutionsAsset owners of all types are increasingly adopting Investment solutions and OCIO products and services, yet the industry lacks standards and norms. The Chestnut Solutions Institute has introduced a new framework designed to help all investment solutions stakeholders develop a mutual understanding of objectives and achieve optimal investor outcomes more easily.In this conversation, Chestnut Solutions Institute founders Ravi Venkataraman and Amanda Tepper introduce this framework and discuss: The breadth and depth of the current OCIO and solutions marketplace, explaining often-confusing industry definitions,An overview of the Institute’s proprietary fra...2024-09-1931 minThe Solutions ScoopDefining Investment SolutionsInvestors and solutions providers are facing several critical challenges hindering a continuation of the industry’s recent rapid growth, notably a lack of standards or common definitions of solutions offered today. In the spring of 2023, Chestnut Advisory Group launched the Chestnut Solutions Institute, a membership based independent research forum, to address these challenges by providing market intelligence and insight to the entire solutions/OCIO ecosystem. This episode was originally recorded as a webinar on June 20th, 2023 and covers a wide ranging discussion about all things Investment Solutions, one of the fastest growing segments of the investment industry. Host...2023-06-2047 min
Indian ArtpreneurPrince Rama Varma - Carnatic vocalist and VainikaOn the 3rd episode of season 3, ‘Vistāra', we speak to an Indian Classical Musician, Vainika, Musicologist, Teacher, Orator, Writer, Organizer, a direct descendant of Maharaja Swathi Thirunal and Raja Ravi Varma, a member of the Royal Family of Travancore, Sri Aswathi Thirunal Rama Varma, popularly known as Prince Rama Varma. Prince Rama Varma was a disciple of Prof. Vechoor Hariharasubramania Iyer and Sangeethakalanidhi Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna, and has also studied the Saraswathi Veena under Trivandrum R.Venkataraman and Sangeetha Kalanidhi Prof K. S. Narayanaswamy. As a visionary, he is known for spearheading the move to allow wom...2021-06-231h 41
TALKING with Arun & Sadanand"If I go there, I might become homeless"We managed to get Mr Amarthya a man who claims to be a regular Software Engineer. As we went on to talk about Movies, music and College life it doesn't take long for us to realize that he is anything but your regular Software Engineer.You can find Mr Amarthya's socials here:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amarthya_ravi/Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_gods_idiotLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amarthya-ravi-2b66997b------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------We have been supported by Brainium, the forum of the Department of Artificial Intelligence...2021-06-0844 min
TALKING with Arun & SadanandMUNTOT, Brownies & EVs in IndiaBig man Sadanand has finally found the courage to face Arun after the beautiful MUNTOT game last weekend. He has also consumed the BEST BROWNIES in town from none other than @tanya__ravi. Other than that, it is the usually fanboying over Elon Musk and waffling about the EV scene in India.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Music: Save Us Now by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comAlbum Photo: A special one by Roshni Shenoy(Twitter: @roshdraws)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Find us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0VYeBj4PHIvyr992fMTwWZ2020-10-1330 min
Loveline with Dr. ChrisLoveline w/ Ravi Patel & Bina VenkataramanDr. Chris sits down with Ravi Patel from Ravi Patel's Pursuit of Happiness to talk about his new show, and mental health during the pandemic. Dr. Chris also talks with Bina Venkataraman to talk about her new book, The Optimist's Telescope. 2020-08-2149 minLoveline with Dr. ChrisLoveline w/ Ravi Patel & Bina VenkataramanDr. Chris sits down with Ravi Patel from Ravi Patel's Pursuit of Happiness to talk about his new show, and mental health during the pandemic. Dr. Chris also talks with Bina Venkataraman to talk about her new book, The Optimist's Telescope. 2020-08-2149 min
Create New Futures | How Leaders Produce Breakthroughs and Transform the World through Conversation025 Ravi Venkataraman - Enabling Tomorrow’s LeadersRavi Venkataraman is the founder of Alive Consulting where he mentors and consults global companies on setting up their shared services operations and on developing design thinking and leadership. For more than three decades he held global leadership roles with banking and with shared services organizations. As the former Senior Vice President and head of Global Business Services at Hewlett Packard, he led a multifunction shared services organization of 18,000 employees located in 58 countries and was responsible for the back office operations of the entire company which handled millions of transactions everyday. In this conversation, Ravi ref...2017-11-141h 21