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Conversations with Institutional Investors — 140 episodes

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141: From the Archives – NZ Super's Matt Whineray

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140: Frontier Advisors' Charles Wu and Elie Saikaly – Launching an ICIO Business

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139: Neuberger's Steve Meier – Do You Know the Risks You Own? TPA at NYC Retirement Systems

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138: From the Archives – JANA's John Coombe

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137: Aware Super's Simon Warner – Investment Strategy as a Perspex Box, TPA and the Changing Role of CIO

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136: Circle the Square – Environmental Risk and the Repricing of Stability

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135: Funds SA's Con Michalakis – TPA Lite, The Comic Con of Asset Allocation and my Best & Worst Investment

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134: JANA's Jo Leaper – Risk as a Source of Alpha

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133: From the Archives – Gus Sauter and the Early Days of ETFs

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132: Michael Kollo – New Book, Building an AI Equity Analyst and AI as a Review Agent

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131: From the Archives – Greg Cooper

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130: RQI Investors' David Walsh – Is A Quant Winter Coming?

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129: From The Archives – Fiona Trafford-Walker

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128: MLC Asset Management's Dan Farmer – Active Management, Private Equity, AI and the Early Days at Telstra Super

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127: Frontier Advisors' Kim Bowater – Consultants in a Changing Industry, AI and Gender Diversity

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126: Professor Scott Donald – Should Trustees Use AI?

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125: The Devolution of Neoliberalism – UTS Finance Department Roundtable

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124: Fidelity's James Richards – Investing in Energy Transition Materials

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123: Cbus' Linda Cunningham – Pricing Risk in Debt Investments, Private Credit and the Impact of Retail Investors

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122: Fidelity's Maroun Younes and James Abela – SMIDs in a World of Large Cap Dominance, Are Things About to Change?

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121: JANA's Mary Power – Offices Market Woes, Liquidity and Blended Approaches to Property

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120: Stanford University's Ashby Monk - The Future of the Pension Industry

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119: Janus Henderson's Richard Brown – Small Caps in a Concentrated World

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118: National Reconstruction Fund's Mary Manning – Supporting Australian Manufacturing, Quantum Diamonds and Cyber Security

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117: Geopolitics with Alan Dupont – Tech wars, Geoeconomics and the Mag 7

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116: Igneo Infrastructure Partners' Danny Latham – Infrastructure 2.0, Waste to Energy and Transition Assets

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115: Gain Line Analytics' Ben Darwin – Performance Analytics, Team Cohesion and The Wallabies

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114: Bellmont Securities' Michael Block – The Michael Block Roadmap to Investing

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113: FCLT's Eduard van Gelderen – Long Term Investing, Concentrated Portfolios and Decarbonisation

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112: Fulcrum's Suhail Shaikh – Absolute Return Investing, Market Timing and The Role of Luck

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111: ART's Michael Weaver – The Role of Real Assets in a Pension Portfolio

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110: Allspring Global Investment's Jamie Newton – Is Now The Time to Add Duration?

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109: Is DeepSeek What It Promised To Be? – Will Liang Explains New AI Model

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108: Victory Park Capital's Brendan Carroll – Private Credit, Asset-backed Lending, ChatGPT

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107: Scott Donald on Governance and Member Meetings

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106: Tuckwell Family Office's Craig Dandurand

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105: T. Rowe Price's Jessica Sclafani

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104: State Super's John Livanas

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103: Janus Henderson's Matt Culley

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102: Qantas Super's Andrew Spence

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101: ECP's Damon Callaghan and Sam Byrnes

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100: Private Equity Co-investments with Neuberger Berman

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99: Global Equities with Janus Henderson

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98: Artificial Intelligence in Wealth Management

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97: Talking Leadership with Felicity Walsh

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96: T Rowe Price's Maria Elena Drew – Towards Net Zero Portfolios

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95: CAIA's John Bowman – Alternatives, ESG and TPA

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94: ART's Andrew Fisher on Scale

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93: NextEnergy Capital's Mike Bonte-Friedheim

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92: Benefit Street Partners' Mike Comparato

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91: Celebrating 20 Years of NZ Super

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90: Janus Henderson 2023 Australian Insurance Report

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89: Michael Kollo on Artificial Intelligence

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88: HMC Capital's David Di Pilla

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87: Janus Hendersons' Thomas Haugaard – Emerging Market Debt

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86: Deloitte's Craig Roodt – APRA, performance test and good governance

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85: PGIM's Jakob Wilhelmus on Food Security

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84: Lighthouse Infrastructure's Peter Johnston

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83: David Brown – Unlisted Assets and Cook Islands Super

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82: ChatGPT_Machine Learning and Venture Capital

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81: TCorp's Tanya Branwhite – Total Portfolio Approach and Diversification

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80: Mine Super's Sean Anthonisz – academia, quants and loose graphs

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79: Dr Warren McKenzie on Nuclear Fusion

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78: ART's Ian Patrick - Merger, Internalisation and Decarbonisation

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77: Maple Brown Abbott's Geoff Bazzan

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76: Allspring's Henrietta Pacquement

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75: Behavioural Finance Australia's Simon Russell – Equities, Selling Discipline and Biases

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74: Janus Hendersons' David Elms – Hedge funds, Factor Strategies and Protection

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73: PERSI's Bob Maynard – Retirement and Reflections on Career

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72: Federated Hermes' Caroline Cantor – Biodiversity

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71: Digital Assets with Nick Abrahams

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70: World Gold Council's John Reade – Gold as a Long Term Asset

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69: Stewart Investors' Pablo Berrutti - Bottom Up Sustainability

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68: Future Fund's Sue Brake – 15 Years of the Future Fund

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67: Janus Henderson's Hamish Chamberlayne – sustainable investing & technological reliance

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66: Gilmour Space's Adam Gilmour – The Industry of Space, Insto Interest and Chinese spies

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65: UniSuper's John Pearce – inhouse management, performance test and China

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64: Vontobel's Matt Benkendorf – Investigative Journalism, Quality and Divestments

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63: Janus Henderson's Daniel Graña – Regulatory Reform in China, Top Down Analysis and Cuba

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62: Hearten Up's Joel Clapham

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61: AustralianSuper's Alistair Barker – asset allocation, YSYF and Disruption

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60: MFS's Ward Brown - Emerging Market Debt, the IMF and Geopolitics

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59: Lazard AM's Steve Wreford – Thematic Investing and Non-Linear Structural Change

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58: QMA Wadhwani's Dr. Sushil Wadhwani – monetary policy, systematic macro and the pandemic

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57: HESTA's Daniela Jaramillo – Energy Transition, Social Stranded Assets and Systemic Risk

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56: Cbus' Nicole Bradford - Net zero 2050, SDGs and Greenwashing

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55: Trillium's Matt Patsky – Trump, Facebook and Fiction in Media

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54: Professor Deep Kapur – Crises, Machine Learning and Lehmans

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53: Sunsuper's Andrew Fisher – Asset Allocation, Pandemic and Retirement Products

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52: Northern Trust AM's Michael Hunstad – Unintended Equity Risks

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51: MMT's Bill Mitchell - Unemployment, Surpluses and Investments

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50: PRI's Nathan Fabian - Climate Risk Pricing

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49: Blackrock's Stephen Laipply – Fixed Income ETFs

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48: Research Affiliates' Rob Arnott - The Value Factor

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47: PineBridge's Michael Kelly - Where to go active and where passive

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46: TCorp's Stewart Brentnall - TCorp, partnerships and the Canadian Model

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45: JP Morgan's Bob Michele - Yield inversion, Gold and Cryptocurrencies

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44: Intech's Adrian Banner - The Stochastic Portfolio Theory and Klezmer music

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43: IEEFA's Tim Buckley - Climate Risk, Stranded Assets and the Energy Transition

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42: TCorp's Greg Cooper - Problems of Public Markets, Active management and Venture Capital

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41: VMLH's Vijoy Chattergy - Crisis Risk Offset, Complexity and Governance

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40: Frontier Advisor's Fiona Trafford-Walker - Manager Selection and Value Investing

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39: Ned Davis Research - Rules of Research and the Inevitable Mistakes

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37: Acquirer Funds' Tobias Carlisle - Quantitative Value, Deep Value and Concentration

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36: GMO's Lucas White - Climate Change, Energy and the Low Carbon Economy

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35: Neuberger Berman's Michael Recce - Data Science and Winning Companies

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38: Promethos' Ivka Kalus - Women Investors, Responsible Investing and Millennials

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34: MarketFox's Daniel Grioli – Decision Making, Emotions and the Psychology of Investing

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33: Gus 'Mr. Index' Sauter - Vanguard, Jack Bogle and Sunsuper

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32: Simon Russell - Behavioural Finance and Artificial Intelligence

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31: Castran Gilbert's Paul Castran - Real Estate Tricks and Surviving Crises

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30: Pzena's Rich Pzena - Value Investing, Tech Disruption and Incumbents

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29: ANU's Geoff Warren - Equity fund capacity, long term investing and insourcing

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28: JANA's John Coombe - Impact of Choice, Consultants and Investment Philosophy

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27: Thinking Ahead Group's Tim Hodgson - Systemic Problems and the Future of Asset Management

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26: MFS's Mike Cantara - ESG, Screening and Sin Stocks

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25: Fidelity's Alva Devoy - Molecular Engineering, Robo Advice and Retirement

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24: Abnormal Returns' Tadas Viskanta - Education and the Early Days of Blogging

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23: Research Affiliates' Rob Arnott - Factor Timing, Cliff Asness and Value Factor

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22: India Avenue's Mugunthan Siva - Indian Stocks, Modi and Reforms

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21: Future Fund's Stephen Gilmore - Bail Outs, the Future Fund and Tajikistan's War Lords

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20: Finder's Fred Schebesta - Crypto Exchanges, Banks and Currencies

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19: Thorney's Alex Waislitz - Micro Caps and the Trappings of Investing

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18: Rob Prugue - Internalisation, Outsourcing and Mental Health

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17: Willis Towers Watson's Sue Brake - Governance and the Real Cost of Poor Culture

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16: Research Affiliates' Mike Aked - Australian Office, CAPE Ratios and Simplicity

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15: Newfound Research's Corey Hoffstein - Style Factors and Investment Risk

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14: Parametric's Raewyn Williams - Taxation Myths and Investing

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13: William Blair's Brian Singer - Mean Reversion, Gary Brinson and DAA

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12: Pzena's Allison Fisch - Value Investing and Emerging Markets

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11: Jack Gray - GMO, Probability and Jeremy Grantham

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10: Intelligent Investor's Jason Zweig - Value Investing Today and Benjamin Graham

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9: O'Shaughnessy AM's James P O'Shaughnessy - Quantitative Investing

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8: PERSI's Bob Maynard - Asset Allocation and the Magic of NZ Super

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7: Copper Rock's Denise Selden - Being a Women on Wall Street 60 Years Ago

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6: Finder's Fred Schebesta - Blockchain, Crypto and Online Marketing

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5: GMO's Jeremy Grantham - Mean Reversion, Trumponomics and EM

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4: Clover's Harry Chemay and Sahil Kaura - Robo Advice

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3: KPA Advisory's Keith Ambachtsheer - Governance, the Future Fund and the Canadian Model

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2: Principal Global's Jim McCaughan - Digital Disruption