Episode 36: GMO’s Lucas White Governance, MarketFox Lucas White is the lead portfolio manager for the GMO Climate Change Strategy and a member of GMO’s Focused Equity team. Together with the firm’s co-founder Jeremy Grantham, Lucas has developed a strategy to invest in companies that are likely to profit from climate change mitigation and the transition to a low-carbon economy. In this […] Read More
Episode 35: Neuberger Berman’s Michael Recce Factor Investing, Innovation Michael Recce is Chief Data Scientist with Neuberger Berman and is leading the firm’s effort into incorporating data signals into the investment process. When working on predictive algorithms for the advertising industry, he realised that these applications would work just as well in finance. After all, if you know which products customers are interested in […] Read More
Episode 34: MarketFox’ Daniel Grioli Behavioural Finance, Investment Strategy, MarketFox Daniel Grioli is the voice behind many of our podcasts, but he is also a professional investor and adviser as principal and founder of Guiscard Capital. Having worked previously within Australian pension funds, in his last capacity as deputy CIO, Daniel understands the issues institutional investors are facing. In this podcast, [i3] Insights editor Wouter […] Read More
Episode 33: Vanguard’s Gus Sauter Factor Investing, Investment Strategy Gus Sauter is the former Chief Investment Officer of Vanguard for 10 years and was instrumental in the company’s venture into exchange traded funds. He talks to [i3] Insights editor Wouter Klijn about his early career, Jack Bogle’s questioning of ETFs and his current role as adviser to Australian pension fund Sunsuper. Podcast overview Gus […] Read More
Episode 32: Author Simon Russell Behavioural Finance, Innovation, Investment Strategy, MarketFox Simon Russell is a specialist in the area of behavioural finance and decision making processes in asset management. He is the author of the book: ‘Cyborg – How to Optimally Integrate Human and Machine Investment Decision-Making’. In this podcast, he speaks with Daniel Grioli about psychology, how to deal with noise and gaps in our […] Read More
Episode 31: Castran Gilbert’s Paul Castran MarketFox, Real Estate Paul Castran is a Senior Consultant with Australian real estate firm Castran Gilbert. He is a veteran of the industry, having conducted over 2,000 auctions. In this frank interview, Paul looks back on his career, the Australian real estate market with its ups but also its downs and answers some tricky questions about the business, […] Read More
Episode 30: Pzena’s Rich Pzena MarketFox, Value Investing Richard ‘Rich’ Pzena is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Pzena Investment Management, a value-style investment firm. Unlike what some investors believe, technological disruption is not destroying value-style investing, but is creating opportunities for them, Rich says. This because history tells us that ultimately it is the incumbent that benefits from innovation, not ‘the […] Read More
Episode 29: ANU’s Geoff Warren Asset Allocation, Implementation Geoff Warren is Associate Professor at the Australian National University and a former asset manager. He has done extensive research on equity fund capacity, insourcing asset management functions and investing for the long term. [i3] Insights editor Wouter Klijn speaks with Geoff about his past and upcoming research. Overview Geoff Warren podcast: 2:00 Why switch […] Read More
Episode 28: JANA’s John Coombe Asset Allocation, Governance, MarketFox In this podcast, MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli speaks to John Coombe, executive director with asset consultant JANA. John is one of Australia’s most respected asset consultants, advising some of the largest pension funds in the country. He is known for his outspoken, but always insightful comments and this time is no different. He speaks about […] Read More
