A podcast dedicated to progressive music in its various forms, including interviews with the musicians themselves.
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A podcast created by @jjash (Jennifer Ashby) and @techyturner (Rodney Turner) on different continents, seventeen hours apart, but who have one purpose; to share how learning and people are the same no matter where you are.
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Most sane people have given up hope that the finance industry can be a catalyst for positive change, but not Sloane Ortel and Ashby Monk. Since Free Money launched in 2019, they have helped listeners understand the true power (and immense potential) of long-term investing through accessible, authoritative, and deeply irreverent conversations with others pushing for progress. In the process, they’ve helped literally dozens of listeners understand root causes of the industry’s misalignment wit ...
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For too long, too many families have battled mental illness behind closed doors, because the stigma against discussing it is too ingrained. In Opening the Window, one family talks frankly about how they continue to learn how to love and support each other through the challenges, in the hopes that listeners will understand that even if they're not ready to talk about it themselves, that they're not alone.
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Agile marketing expert John Cass shares insights, interviews, and more in this podcast show all about agile marketing. Featuring interviews with brand marketers, John Cass discusses a number of case studies all about agile marketing. Plus, the show's new feature, round ups featuring podcast stringers who talk about new highlights from the agile marketing community.
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Deep Dive into Agile Marketing Round up Podcast with Emre Enver Uçar (Episode Twenty Two)
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10:16The Deep Dive into Agile Marketing Podcast Round up features insights into the LinkedIn Group for Agile Marketing, and Emre Uçar’s stringer report on the Agile Marketing in Turkey. If you’d like to submit a round up report contact the podcast host. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Deep Dive into Agile Marketing Round up Podcast with Pam Ashby (Episode Twenty One)
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15:50The Deep Dive into Agile Marketing Podcast Round up features insights into the LinkedIn Group for Agile Marketing, Pam Ashby’s stringer report on the Business Agility Conference UK, and the latest news about the Boston Agile Marketing Meetup. If you’d like to submit a round up report contact the podcast host. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
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Deep Dive into Agile Marketing Round up Podcast (Episode Twenty)
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14:32The Deep Dive into Agile Marketing Podcast Round up features insights into the LinkedIn Group for Agile Marketing, Jonathan Wasserman’s stringer report on the pharmaceutical industry, and a clip from Dzmitry Hryb. If you’d like to submit a round up report contact the podcast host. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Dzmitry Hryb on agile marketing and Deviniti (Episode Nineteen)
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29:11Interview with Dzmitry Hryb, who is a strategic marketing leader and advisor, he has been working at Deviniti for the last six and half years. About his management of marketing and campaigns using agile marketing, a great case study on the use of agile for marketing teams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Klement, Cassandras, and the Concept of Innovation feat. Joachim Klement
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1:14:43Wow! We were fortunate enough to have had Joachim Klement join our most recent episode. This one is jam-packed with a variety of topics which range from structural differences in growth between Europe and the U.S to Joachim's fascinating concept of industry "Cassandras". Plus, we have even more Free Money to offer, including the usual beloved bante…
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The Carbon Market Coterie feat. Mark Campanale of the Carbon Tracker Initiative
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1:25:15This carbon special featuring Mark Campanale is one you don't want to miss - we discuss peak oil, Mark's vision for the carbon market, and whether it's reasonable to rely on the carbon market as the catalyst for change. Definitely one for the books. We also answer some exciting questions from our lovely listeners, offer gardening tips galore, and s…
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What the Bedroom Can Teach the Boardroom feat. Bahar Baharloo, Intimacy Coordinator
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1:14:30What an exciting show for our LAST episode of the year! We were joined by Bahar Baharloo, who was Sloane's roommate during her time in the McKibbin lofts of Brooklyn. Their experience as an intimacy coordinator gives us some amazing insight into consent and how it applies to the governance and approval we encounter in investment decision making. As…
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Innovation is the Combination of Ideas feat. Tom Brakke of the Investment Ecosystem
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1:31:42Hop in folks, this train is headed to Brakkestan! We were fortunate enough to meet up with Tom Brakke, one of the keepers of the flame in active independent investment management. We talk about what innovation really is, due diligence in the manager selection process, and more. Ashby's whereabouts on January 6th are also discussed, and if you'd lik…
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Today we're joined by Bill Burckart and Megan Kashner of Colorful Capital, both of whom are professors of impact investing (Columbia and Northwestern) as well as co-founders of the venture firm focused on the LGBT community. We hear from them on why the firm is necessary, how they've gone about trying to access the people they're trying to reach, a…
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Innovation Backed by Violence featuring Caitlin Rosenthal
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1:18:11This one's nearly a year old - but still filled with the usual gold. It honestly didn't come as a shock to us that modern American accounting practices are deeply rooted in slavery (nothing shocks us anymore). But in order to further wrap our heads around this insane concept, we spent some time chatting with Caitlin Rosenthal, historian of business…
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Transitioning to Greatness featuring Maeve DuVally
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1:23:01Perhaps this episode could be a great business case for not hating yourself. It's amazing when you look at what you bring to the table at work as a truly happy person, which in Maeve's case was a result of coming out. Join the crew as we discuss what it was like for her coming out at Goldman Sachs, real experiences of what it's like to be trans in …
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Augmenting the Efficiency of Indian Agriculture with Ruchit Garg of the Harvesting Farmer Network
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1:12:26AI, research, and farming? Oh my! On today's episode, we're joined by Ruchit Garg, who is working to build a much more efficient market for agricultural goods in India. We also discuss ancient spreadsheets, whether or not AI will ever have a material impact on institutional investment decisions, and the general vibes this lunar cycle.…
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See - we told you we weren't dead! Our guest in this episode is...nonexistent (thanks to a typical tech error). That said, we're thrilled to get back in the swing of things and to be able to offer our listeners the usual flow of banter, news, jokes, and as always, a gardening tip. Our conversation in this episode touches upon an exciting change in …
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An Interview with Peter Eggleston of GE Healthcare - Episode Eighteen
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22:34In this episode, we talk with Peter Eggleston, Global Product Marketing Director, Radiology IT at GE Healthcare. Pete talks about the phased release development process in product marketing, where the system is a waterfall process, and where there are instances Pete's team can use agile thinking and processes. Pete is the head of global product mar…
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Anthony Coppedge on Agile Marketing at IBM - Episode Seventeen
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54:04In this episode, we talk with Anthony Coppedge, Principal Agile Digital Sales Global Transformation Lead at IBM. Anthony gives an update on the agile marketing program at IBM and takes us on a journey though his career with agile marketing. Anthony Coppedge leads the vision, strategy, and execution for how business agility is infused in Global Digi…
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Mark Hanoteau on Agile Marketing at Evalueserve - Episode Sixteen:
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27:35In this episode, we talk with Mark Hanoteau, Group Manager - Financial Services Evalueserve, based in Chile. Mark talks about his work in using agile marketing with his team and clients around the world. As well as diving into depth on what several of the values from the agile marketing manifesto mean to him. Mark Hanoteau is a principal consultant…
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Operational Alpha in Practice with NYC BERS’ Sandy Rich
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1:16:34Some things are more important than beating the market. That's particularly true when it comes to managing a pension fund. In this episode, we chat with NYC BERS' Sandy Rich about what he's done over the past seven years to streamline decisionmaking, clarify the term structure of his fund's liabilities, and build a talented internal team. Note: Thi…
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Life Lessons from the Bond King featuring NPR's Mary Childs
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1:13:29Our guest in this episode is Mary Childs, The author of The Bond King, a look at the life and legacy of PIMCO founder, Bill Gross, the unusual organization that he built, and the fixed income market that he came to dominate. Our conversation starts by talking about why stocks are dumb, the elements of operational alpha that made PIMCO what it is, a…
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Finding the Funding to Fix Climate Change with Enduring Planet’s Dimitry Gershenson and Erin Davis
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1:14:08How much money is needed to keep climate change under 1.5 degrees celsius, how much is currently available, and how much more money needs to be found after the passage of the inflation protection act? We talk with Dimitry Gershenson and Erin Davis, co-founders of the climate-centric lending platform Enduring Planet, to get the skinny. The conversat…
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Stacey Ackerman and Michael Seaton - Episode Fifteen
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44:13Stacy and Michael have led an industry-driven effort to develop the Agile Marketing Navigator. Bringing the marketing community together to create a flexible, adaptable, and customizable framework for marketers, by marketers. The hope is that the framework can be used to navigate agile marketing implementations. Stacey Ackerman is a well-known thou…
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A Clarion Call for Carbon Pricing with Franklin Templeton’s Ben Meng
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1:18:52Franklin Templeton's Ben Meng joins us to talk about why capital markets need carbon pricing to function properly, how litigation risks prevent companies from making certain disclosures, and why investment professionals need to use their imagination to get ahead of the climate crisis. That conversation starts about seventeen minutes into the episod…
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Fixing Fish Farm Finance with Scoot Science’s Grant Cavanaugh
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1:18:25If you’re like most people, you may not have realized that fish farm finance is somewhat unfixed at the moment. We talk with Scoot Science CIO Grant Cavanaugh about why that is.By Sloane Ortel
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Episode 7: Episode 007 : "I Thought of My Brother"
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33:57There is a growing epidemic of youth suicide in our culture, and everyone seems either to claim to have pinpointed the cause, or has no idea what to attribute it to. The statistics of its rise are clear, however, so it's high time we started speaking our stories about suicide and suicidal ideation to try to bring those numbers down. Mark's older so…
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Municipal Finance From First Principles with Tammie Arnold of AlphaLedger
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1:30:05What could a new mechanism for municipal funding unlock, and why is it neccessary? We speak with Tammie Arnold, a fixed-income veteran and the founder of AlphaLedger, to find out.By Sloane Ortel
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How Not To Exacerbate Income Inequality (With Delilah Rothenberg of the Predistribution Initiative)
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1:17:27On this episode, we’re joined by Delilah Rothenberg of the Predistribution initiative. Her work focuses on reimagining investment structures to promote sustainability through stronger long-term alignment between asset managers and their clients. That conversation starts about thirteen minutes into the episode.…
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Episode 6: Episode 006 : Bad Behavior ... or Mental Illness?
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19:10He's made national news for his recent legal troubles, but for your host, the saga of character actor Eddie Deezen has a local component, as they're from more or less the same small western Maryland town. Deezen's actions at dining establishments and private homes have gotten him arrested and have led many to either defend or scorn him. At first, h…
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Episode 5: Episode 005 : You Keep Using That Word...
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13:37"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." -Inigo Montoya, "The Princess Bride" We're all guilty of speaking or writing before we think about the effect the words that casually leave our mouths or fingertips will have on others. Have you ever considered that words like "manic" or "OCD" are thrown around in incorrec…
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The Practical Implications of a Net Zero Pledge
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1:26:48Plenty of institutional investors are making net zero commitments, but what do they actually mean? In this episode, we chat to Kristy Jenkinson, CalSTRS' Head of Sustainable Investment and Stewardship Strategies, about what these commitments mean to an organization that has been a recognized leader in the ESG movement since 2004. That conversation …
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Episode 4: Episode 004 : When Did You Know?
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18:45Often there comes a time in the lives of those with mental illness when they realize that they're not just sad or anxious; there's something deeper happening in their brains. For many it comes in young adulthood, but when looking back, maybe the onset was even earlier. What happens when a young brain that doesn't have the vocabulary to express the …
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What Do Investors Really Want with Stacey Kline of Otto Intelligence
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1:17:03How can financial advisers figure out what clients really want? We're zooming in on that question in this episode with Stacey Kline of Otto Intelligence. She’s built a behavioral questionnaire that helps advisers discover their clients’ detailed preferences and build portfolios that suit them. That conversation starts about 17 minutes into this epi…
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Carbon Offsets for the Long Run featuring Lars Kroijer of AlliedOffsets
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1:05:32Are carbon offsets a viable tool to help us build a more sustainable world? Lars Kroijer says so. He's a recovering hedge fund manager who got mixed up in the carbon offset market a few years ago. The conversation starts after the news (about 22 minutes into the episode.)By Sloane Ortel
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Episode 3: Episode 003 : Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn
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18:36The word "triggered" is often thrown around as an insult these days, demonstrating a lack of empathy toward those people, places, objects, and events that can cause some of us to exhibit what used to be called the fight-or-flight response. In recent years, two additional possibilities – freeze and fawn – have been tacked on. Most of us can point to…
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Episode 2: Episode 002 : The "Gift" of Being Gifted
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21:30Like many high-achieving children from my generation and later, I was once labeled "gifted" academically. The older I got, the more I realized how that label created perfectionist tendencies and unhealthy avoidance of anything at which I couldn't excel immediately. While my anxiety was manageable, for others (including those whose comments are reco…
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Episode 1: Episode 001 : We Just Didn't Talk About It
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14:23My grandmother passed away at age 81 holding onto a lot of secrets about her childhood. Those secrets ate away at her mental health and were my first experience with a loved one going through an undiagnosed mental illness. She never got the help she needed, because her generation – and to a large extent mine – just didn't talk about that sort of th…
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12:50 - THE NEWS! CalPERS is getting closer to hiring a new CIO and other big developments that will come in the new year. 24:59 - Trend #1 - 2022 should be the year when fiduciary investors' commitments to go net-zero and fossil fuel free actually get some teeth. 29:36 - Trend #2 - Robinhood's acquisition of Say Technologies might herald a new era…
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Making Everything Tradeable Everywhere On The Blockchain With Martin Froehler of Morpher
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1:06:19On this episode, we’re talking with cryptocurrency entrepreneur Martin Froehler about what’s possible in the realm of decentralized finance. His company, Morpher, operates a 24/7 trading market that allows users to trade hundreds of stocks and cryptocurrencies with zero fees, infinite liquidity, and up to 10x leverage.…
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What Does Long Term Investing Actually Mean? With Anne Marie Fleurbaaij of the Cambridge University Endowment
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1:11:31True long-term investing is profoundly different from the sorts of rationalizations that people make when investments don’t play out. But how, exactly? We dig into how adopting an identity as a “long term investor” affects the way one relates to the rest of the investment community, determines what you focus on, and colors the way you evaluate perf…
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Thinking Like an Allocator with John Bowman of the CAIA Association
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1:08:09We hear from John Bowman about why it's time to move past the ESG label, what the investment portfolio of the future looks like, and how allocators are looking past traditional asset class delineations and embracing more functional approaches to asset allocation.By Sloane Ortel
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Know What You Own with Andy Behar of As You Sow
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1:11:41We chat with Andrew Behar of As You Sow, a titan of shareholder activism, about how investors can use their proxy voting power to push their portfolio companies to make positive changes.By Sloane Ortel
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Fermenting Innovation with Anna Marie Wagner and Gingko Bioworks
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1:10:42We chat with Anna Marie Wagner, the SVP of corporate development at Gingko Bioworks, a synthetic biology company that recently came public and is part of Invest Vegan's flagship strategy. We chat about how Gingko evolved its funding sources over time, the firm's decision to pursue a horizontal/service provider business model, and how she'll judge t…
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Sustainable Finance Around the World With SustainFinance's Paul Smith, CFA
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1:15:25We're joined in this episode by Paul Smith, CFA, a co-founder of SustainFinance and the former CEO Of CFA Institute. We chat about: His favorite experience leading CFA Institute, which is global beyond simple comprehension. How prepared the industry is to navigate the climate transition Whether ESG Investing is just a new form of colonialism We als…
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Deception and Truth Analysis Featuring Jason Voss, A.K.A. "The Voss of Reason"
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1:20:01This is a very special episode of Free Money. Our guest, Jason Voss, is a close collaborator of both of ours and the Founder/CEO of Deception and Truth Analysis, or DATA. And honestly, if you like this show at all, you're gonna love this one. We talk about identifiable blind spots in active management processes, the difference between deceit and ly…
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The Outlook for ESG Outcome Data With Netpurpose Founder Sam Duncan
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1:10:26Sustainable investment strategies are traditionally long on glossy marketing materials, but a little light on clear outcomes. Like, what happens as a result of making the investment? Our guest in this episode is Sam Duncan, CEO of NetPurpose, an impact measurement platform based in London that helps investors source, share, and stay abreast of the …
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How Letting Go Unleashes Impact With Meg Massey and Ben Wrobel
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1:06:08What if it turned out that the best way to actually “do” philanthropy and impact investing was by letting go of the outcome? Our guests on this episode explored exactly that question in a recent book: Letting Go. How philanthropists and impact investors can do more good by giving up control. They are Meg Massey, a journalist covering social impact …
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Mitra Roknabadi and Lydia Kirby Interview on Agile Marketing - Episode Fourteen
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19:57Mitra Roknabadi is Vice President and Global Head of Marketing at OpenFin, the financial industry’s operating system. In this role, she's responsible for OpenFin brand, marketing, events, and media relations. Ms. Roknabadi's marketing and community building efforts at OpenFin have been instrumental in establishing the company as a leader in collabo…
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In this episode, Sloane and Ashby talk about sex work. In particular, they talk about why the finance industry is so skeeved out about it and what that means for platforms like Onlyfans, which now seems likely to pivot away from a dominant position in adult entertainment due to various operational impediments we’ll examine.…
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Inside The Master Narrative About Asset Owners With Institutional Investor’s Alicia McElhaney
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1:05:09Is it worth building a master narrative about institutional investors as a whole? How much progress has been made on racial equity and inclusion since the murder of George Floyd? And does financial advice reinforce destructive social norms? We speak with Institutional Investor's Alicia McElhaney about this and more. We also answer listener question…
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Effective Shareholder Activism With Engine #1's Jennifer Grancio
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46:21You may have heard that a teeny investment fund managed to force Exxon to take climate change seriously. In this episode, you'll hear from one of the people behind that successful campaign: Jennifer Grancio, the CEO of Engine #1 Asset Management. We talk about how a myopic fossil fuel focus left Exxon with underperforming investments, and about the…
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Social Justice Investing With Adasina’s Rachel Freeman
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53:21This week we talk with Rachel Freeman, Adasina's director of investor services, about what it means to build a bridge between social justice organizations and the capital markets. We also touch on issues like: Ending forced arbitration for sexual harassment, which have historically been left out of the ESG equation. Starting a new investment fund a…
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Primary Market Activism with Ulf Erlandsson of the Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute
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48:05A portfolio manager turned activist, Ulf takes us inside some recent fixed income transactions that imply some banks (and some pensions) are taking their commitments to ESG less than seriously. He then disaggregates the "yield pickup" that buyers of fossil fuel debt have been feasting on, explains how his activist ESG strategy benefits from fixed i…
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