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The Fiftyfaces Podcast
by Aoifinn Devitt
A series that showcases the diversity and richness of the investment world through showcasing inspiring investors and their stories.
Episodes
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Episode 381: Anastasia Amoroso Chief Investment Strategist at Partners Group: The Importance of Doing the Reps
Anastasia Amoroso is a Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist at Partners Group. In this role, she provides macroeconomic, private markets, and portfolio management insights to investors. She joined Partners Group from iCapital, where she served as Chief Investment Strategist for the...
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Episode 380: Joey Mason of Claret Capital on Venture Capital, Venture Debt and Europe's Need for Speed
Joey Mason is a Venture Partner in Life Sciences at Claret Capital Partners where he has been since September 2024. He has over 30 years’ experience in the sector, and has significant experience in most segments of the Life Sciences industry – medtech, pharma/ biotech, diagnostics, health IT and...
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Episode 379: BONUS Episode - Jenny Segal on Motivation: The Blueprint for Success
In this bonus podcast we bring you a short conversation with long-term guest and supporter of Fiftyfaces - Jenny Segal, who has just published her sixth book On Motivation - The Blueprint for Success, which is being launched today - October 6, 2026. I n this conversation - our third with Jenny -...
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Episode 378: Anwiti Bahuguna of Northern Trust: The Golden Era of Customisation
Anwiti Bahuguna, who is Co-Chief Investment Officer at Northerm Trust Asset Management, where she has spent over three years. She was previously Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of Multi-Asset Strategy for Columbia Threadneedle Investments, and has a PhD in economics from Northeastern…
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Episode 377: Keith Williams of Crestline Investors: Striking a Balance in Private Credit and in Life
Keith Williams is Managing Partner – Credit Strategies and Chief Investment Officer at Crestline Investors Inc. Crestline has a suite of strategies across direct lending, fund liquidity solutions, insurance and reinsurance. Keith was previously a director at Goldman Sachs and an Executive VP at...
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Episode 376: Robert Holley of Baltimore Fire and Police Pension Fund: Resilience and Resourcefulness - Building a World Class Investment Team
Robert Holley is Executive Director and Pensions Investment Manager at the $4 bn Baltimore City Fire and Police Employees' Retirement System. He has had a career that has spanned both the private and public sectors in financial services. Our conversation charts his journey from the private to the...
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Episode 375: BONUS Episode: A conversation with Mark Steed of Arizona PSPRS: Ipswich Town Football Club investments, AI and Decision Making
This bonus podcast captures some of the audio we recorded in London on September 4, when we were delighted to host Mark Steed, CIO of the $27 bn+ Arizona Public Safety Personnel Retirement System for a breakfast in London. Our agenda was ambitious, intending to cover three main areas: Football…
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Episode 374: Cary Krosinsky of Yale - The Right Kind of Transition Momentum
I’m joined today by Cary Krosinsky who appeared on the podcast in 2021. I have put his previous podcast is here. I invited Cary back after 5 years which have been transformative for the field of sustainability with notable headwinds and tailwinds that have shifted the emphasis of the field. He…
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Episode 373: Ali Houshmand of EQT - The Emergence of the Chief Question Officer
Ali Houshmand, leads the non-traded REIT initiatives for EQT real estate, where he manages the formation, strategy, and portfolio construction of EQRT - EQT’s first open-ended real estate vehicle in the non-traded REIT space. He previously spent close to a decade at the Texas Permanent School…
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Episode 4: Series 4 2026 - Trailer - Leadership, Wealth Tech and Chief Question Officers
After an extremely fast-paced summer we are delighted to be back for Series 4 of the Fiftyfaces Podcast for 2026. This series dips into dips into venture capital and private credit, does a double dip into real estate. We explore the challenges of allocator governance (for families and public…
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Episode 372: When you have to go to know: Maggie Coleman Global Head of Client and Portfolio Solutions at Manulife
Maggie Coleman is Chief Investment Officer Real Estate Equity, North America as well as Global Head of Client and Portfolio Solutions at Manulife Investment Management. Prior to joining Manulife, she spent most of her career in real estate and capital markets. Our conversation traces her journey…
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Episode 371: Crawford Spence Lifting the Veil on Financial Market Inefficiencies - one ossified idea at a time
Professor Crawford Spence is a Professor of Accounting at King’s College London and an experienced researcher and educator across an array of business disciplines with specific expertise in financial service professions. He is a genuinely international scholar, having lived and taught on a number...
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Episode 370: From the oil rigs to speed skating to private credit - Brett Hickey of Star Mountain Capital
Brett Hickey is founder and chief executive officer of Star Mountain Capital, a specialized private investment firm with approximately $5 billion in assets under management, focused exclusively on the US lower middle market. Since founding the firm in 2010 he has built Star Mountain into a...
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Episode 369: The Dignity of Work: Kristina Hooper of MAN Group - Strategy, Labor Economics, Insights
Kristina Hooper is Chief Market Strategist at Man Group, a global alternative investment manager. In this role, she provides views and insights on the economy and markets and appears regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Yahoo Finance, and Reuters TV. Prior to joining Man Group in 2025 Christina…
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Episode 368: A New Chapter in Sustainable Investing: Dr. Michael Viehs
Dr. Michael Viehs is a globally recognized expert on responsible investment, stewardship and long-term value creation with over 20 years of experience in practice and academic life. He has advised leading institutional investors on a combined asset base worth more than $4 trillion and currently...
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Episode 367: A Brave New World for LGPS Governance: Claire Alcock, Head of Pensions LGA
This podcast is our final podcast released and produced by the Always a Pensions Angle podcast series by DG Publishing. While the recording was made earlier in the Spring, the governance concerns remain pertinent and in flux for the LGPS. Clair Alcock is a highly respected leader in UK public...
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Episode 366: The Four Big Questions We Should Each Ask Ourselves: Matthew Kentridge on Strategy in Life and Work
Matthew Kentridge, a strategy consultant with over 30 years experience, who is a trustee and advisor and also works as an executive coach. We were both at INSEAD together, and I have followed his career ever since – and am delighted now to bring some of his learnings to our audience. Our...
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Episode 365: Chess Club v. Drama Club: Where do you find your people and what does this mean for your professional style? Sally Bridgeland on culture and leadership.
Sally Bridgeland, was one of the first 5 guests on this podcast back in 2020, and needs no introduction in London institutional investing circles. Her original podcast is here: since then there have been many exciting career updates to mention – including the fact that the chess and drama club…
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Episode 364: Kirstie Sneyd – the original OB queen – on returning well and staying grounded
Kirstie Sneyd is an organizational psychologist, executive coach and the author of “Returning Well”, a practical, evidence-based guide for working parents and their managers. We were both at INSEAD together, and I have followed her career ever since – and am delighted now to bring some of her...
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Episode 363: James Mitchell: Rethinking and Rewiring - a Portfolio Career for the New Economy
James Mitchell was a director at Goldman Sachs, Barclays and Phoenix Group before developing a portfolio career including a strategic advisory role with Re-wired Earth as well as Empathy, a company committed to supporting families through bereavement. He holds a number of other advisory and...
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Episode 3: Trailer - Series 3 of 2026 - Culture, Coaches and Chess Clubs
We are delighted to bring you Series 3 of the 2026 Fiftyfaces Podcast. This set of 10 compelling conversations takes a slightly different tack to usual with a particular focus on some of the building blocks behind firms - such as strategy (as described by Matthew Kentridge), motivation (Kirstie...
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Episode 4: Bonus: Always a Pensions Angle: Nick Dixon of Avon Pension Fund - Engagement, Purpose, Practice
This podcast is released as part of a collaboration between Fiftyfaces Productions and the Always a Pensions Angle Podcast produced by DG Publishing. Nick Dixon is Head of Pensions, Avon Pension Fund, which he has led since 2022. Avon Pension Fund serves c.140,000 members in the public sector...
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Episode 3: Bonus: Always a Pensions Angle Collaboration: Peter Wallach - From Powerhouse to Progress
This podcast is the latest in our collaboration with the Always a Pensions Angle podcast produced by DG Publishing. Peter Wallach is Director of Pensions at Merseyside Pension Fund, a position he took up in April 2007. He started his career in private banking, where he worked in the City for 12...
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Episode 362: Richard Law-Deeks, CEO of LGPS Central: Change for Good - The Promise of Partnership
Richard Law-Deeks is Chief Executive Officer of LGPS Central, which, following its current expansion, will be responsible for over 100 bn GBP in pooled local authority pension fund assets. Prior to joining LGPS Central in 2024 he was CEO of the Royal Mail Pensions Trustees Ltd. and prior to that...
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Episode 361: Ami Galani of Tipt Ventures: Reimagining Sports, Starting with Her
Ami Galani is Co-founder and Managing Partner of Tipt Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in companies “reimagining sports, starting with her”. She is a board member of Beauty by Imagination BB, a PE backed beauty platform, a strategic advisor to Elysian Park Ventures, a venture capital…
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Episode 360: Richard Tomlinson of LPPI - New Frontiers and the Promise of Doing More Together
Richard Tomlinson is Chief Investment Officer at Local Pensions Partnership Investments. He was previously head of portfolio advisory and partner at Albourne, where he spent over 6 years, and prior to that managed was Head of Multi Strategy and Absolute Return at Old Mutual Asset Managers. This...
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Episode 359: Carolina Strobel of Antler Brazil: On Board Reboots and Ventures Promise
Carolina (Carol) Strobel, is based in Sao Paolo and a founding partner at Antler Brasil. She is also a Founder and Operational Partner at Redpoint eventures and holds a number of Board Roles, including of public companies in Brazil. Our conversation starts with her original career as a lawyer…
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Episode 2: Bonus Episode: Richard Tomlinson of LPPI (Always a Pensions Angle/DG Publishing Collaboration)
A special bonus episode brought to you in conjunction with the Always a Pensions Angle Podcast, by D G Publishing. This podcast was recorded in January 2026 at their conference in Windsor. Richard Tomlinson has responsibility for management of all investment and client activity at LPPI. He has…
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Episode 358: Michael Davis of T Rowe Price: Retiring a Legend - Lessons in Trust and Client Loyalty
Michael Davis, is Head of Global Retirement Strategy at T. Rowe Price and former Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Labor (2009–2012), and will be retiring in May of 2026. He has had a long career in finance interspersed with spells of public service, including in particular a...
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Episode 357: Ryan Boothroyd of Border to Coast Pensions Partnership: On Partnering and Stewardship - a Blueprint for Growth
Ryan Boothroyd is Head of External Management at Border to Coast Pensions Partnership. We start by learning about his path into finance - some of his early interests that were from far outside finance. from a non-finance background, early career “wobbles,” and formative mentors. Ryan explains his...
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Episode 356: Bonus Episode: Trevor Castledine Chief Client Officer of LGPS Central: Collaboration with Always a Pensions Angle
What are the challenges of growth? What are opportunities? What if you get to create a client advisory function from scratch? Where would you start? In this special bonus episode - one of five that we will be launching every Friday for the next four weeks - is part of a special collaboration with...
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Episode 355: Lin Yue: Building a new "Table" and Finding a Voice in Finance
Lin Yue, previously led the strategic trustees business at Goldman Sachs Asset Management in London where she was responsible for key relationships in the UK institutional market. She has been recognized in the HERoes 100 Women Future Leaders by Yahoo Finance for three consecutive years and a...
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Episode 354: John Harney of AON - Rethinking Pensions - Their Risks and Their Promise
We are delighted to bring you this special conversation with John Harney who is a former guest on the show and a prominent writer and thinker on pensions as well as career and wellness topics. Our conversation picks up with where we left off - John's former discussion on the podcast in which he...
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Episode 2: Series 2 2026 Trailer - On Entrepreneurial Beginnings and Building Trust
We are thrilled to launch Series 2 of the 2026 Fiftyfaces Podcast with a bumper collection of guests featuring three senior professionals at UK LGPS pools - Richard Tomlinson (CIO at LPPI), Richard Law-Deeks (CEO at LGPS Central) and Ryan Boothroyd (Head of External Management at Border to…
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Episode 353: Alex Ambroz of the Allocator Training Institute: The art of crawl, walk, run as an investment discipline
Alex Ambroz is CEO of the Allocator Training Institute, which grew out of a career-long observation of the gap in the market for the kind of training that allocators need. Our podcast discussion starts with his own upbringing and he describes how he grew up in foster care and moved around a lot...
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Episode 352: Jennifer Marques of Oaktree - Asset Backed Finance and the Power of the Team
Jennifer Marques is Head of Strategy and Structuring for Structured Credit and Asset-Backed Finance at Oaktree, based in Los Angeles. She started her career as a corporate lawyer, first in private practice and then within Oaktree. She discussed her career journey from law to finance, emphasizing...
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Episode 351: Adam Blitz of Evanston Capital: Hedge Funds, the polish and the promise
Adam Blitz is CEO and Co-CIO at Evanston Capital, where he has spent 24 years. He previously worked as a trader at AQR and in the prime brokerage division at Goldman Sachs. Our conversation starts with the serendipitous turn that saw Adam move from the prime brokerage division into the very early...
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Episode 350: Matt Rice of Vistamark: Quarterbacking institutional investment through the cycles
Matthew Rice is Chief Investment Officer of Vistamark Investments LLC where he leads the creation and execution of innovative, research-driven investment strategies anchored in disciplined portfolio management .He launched the firm in June of 2025 after a long career at Fiducient Advsors. Our...
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Episode 1: Series 1 2026 Trailer: OCIOs, Corporate Responsibility and When Enough is Enough
Welcome to Series 1 of 2026 – we are now approaching the age of 6 – if we were a person we would be entering school, so we have come of age, and we are going deep. Tune in to a series in which we question what it is to stick to one’s investment beliefs, hear about the changing world of OCIOs and...
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Episode 349: Alison Taylor of NY Stern School of Business - Corporate Responsibility and Doing the Right thing in a Turbulent World
Alison Taylor is Clinical Professor at the NY Stern School of Business – her Linkedin profile describes her as having “lots of other hats and even more opinions”. She is the author of “Higher Ground – How Business can do the right thing in a Turbulent World”, and has a successful Substack as well...
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Episode 348: Larissa Herczeg of 1 Seed Partners: Built to Last - Sowing the Seeds of Real Estate Strategies
Larissa Herczeg is Founder and Managing Partner of 1 Seed Partners. One Seed Partners backs rising stars across the real estate complex Prior to founding 1 Seed she was Head of Seeding at Blue Owl, and prior to that CIO at Oak Street Capital before which she had series of financial roles. She was…
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Episode 347: Corey Then of Circle: StableCoins and how the Velocity of Money can Unlock Prosperity
Corey Then is the Vice President and Deputy General Counsel - Global Policy at Circle, a global financial technology company. He previously held a series of legal roles, and spent a period in the White House as an economics and Department of Justice lead. He's also an adjunct professor at the...
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Episode 346: William McGrath of C-Suite Pension Strategies: Rethinking and Reframing Corporate Pension Funds
William McGrath is CEO of C suite pension strategies. He has a financial and industrial sector background and was a longtime CEO of AGA range master. He has an honorary doctorate from Birmingham City University for work to sustain the relevance of the Midlands industrial heritage. He returned to...
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Episode 345: Thomas Knowles of Gratitude Railroad: on Impact and Abundance
Thomas Knowles is Managing Partner of Gratitude Railroad. Gratitude Railroad is a community driven impact investing firm championing innovative businesses that generate compelling financial returns and enduring impact. He was previously an Operating Partner at the Builders Fund and prior to that...
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Episode 344: Klaus Peterson of Apera: Unlocking the potential of the lower middle market in private credit
Klaus Peterson is a founding partner at Apera Asset Management, based in Munich. Apera is a lower mid-market private debt investor that provides financing solutions to European SMEs and asset management services to investors. Apera focuses on the DACH region, the United Kingdom, the Nordic...
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Episode 343: Rich Nuzum of Franklin Templeton: Outsourced CIO relationships - playing the long game
Rich Nuzum is head of OCIO at Franklin Templeton. He joined Franklin Templeton from Mercer where he spent more than three decades providing investment consulting advice to institutional investors. Nuzum holds an MBA in analytic finance and accounting from the University of Chicago and a…
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Episode 342: Kirsty Gibson of Baillie Gifford: The complex (yet elegant) choreography of active equity management.
Kirsty Gibson is an investment manager at Baillie Gifford, where she has spent over 13 years. She is currently focused in particular on investing in US equities with a growth orientation. Our conversation starts with Kirsty’s roots and her training in classical ballet. This was an unusual yet...
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Episode 1: Bonus Special Episode - The Long and Short of It with Ian McKnight: 2026 Outlook and Musings
This inaugural episode of The Long and Short of It with Ian McKnight kicks off with a reflection on a news-filled Christmas period where geopolitics started the year in explosive fashion and markets started to digest the aftermath. Today's episode features Aoifinn Devitt, Senior Investment…
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Episode 341: Everaldo Franca of PPS Portfolio Performance in Brazil: Keeping an eye on the Long Term Prize for Institutional Investors
Everaldo Franca is CEO at PPS Portfolio Performance, a role he has held since 1996. He has deep experience with advising pensions and institutional investors in Brazil. Our conversation starts with his upbringing in Sao Paolo and the straitened circumstances wrought by the economy that forced...
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Episode 6: Bonus: Matias Guajardo Marchant of Toesca Asset Management: Investing in Agriculture; Investing in the Future
Matias Guajardo Marchant who is a Portfolio Manager Farmland at Toesca Asset Management in Santiago. He is an Agronomist with a career fully dedicated to agriculture, firmly believing that this sector is one of the fundamental pillars of both the Chilean and global economy. He is a mentor with...
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