Episode 36: GMO’s Lucas White 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 34: MarketFox’ Daniel Grioli 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 32: Author Simon Russell 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 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 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 28: JANA’s John Coombe 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
Episode 26: MFS’ Mike Cantara MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli sits down with Mike Cantara, Senior Managing Director, Global Client Group, MFS Investment Management to talk about Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) issues. Cantara emphasises the importance of striking the right balance: “Companies that pay attention to material issues add value over time, but companies that pay attention to immaterial […] Read More
Episode 24: Abnormal Returns’ Tadas Viskanta Tadas Viskanta is among the first wave of successful investment bloggers, starting the Abnormal Returns blog in 2005. Rather than providing its readers with forecasts and other crystal ball-gazing exercises, Viskanta focuses on education, writing about best practice in both investing and personal finance. MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli speaks with Viskanta about the early days […] Read More
Episode 23: Research Affiliates’ Rob Arnott In this podcast, MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli speaks with Research Affiliates founder and chairman Rob Arnott about his research into factors and addresses the criticism that AQR founder Cliff Asness had on his factor timing paper. Arnott makes the case you certainly can time factors and that to sell out of value now, while it […] Read More
