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We're taking The Big Take to Asia. Each week, Bloomberg's Oanh Ha tells a story from the home of the world's most dynamic economies - and the markets, tycoons and businesses that drive the ever-shifting region. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Savita Subramanian, managing director and head of US equity and quantitative strategy at Bank of America Corp. She also leads the firm's environmental, social and governance research. She has been a ranked analyst in the Institutional Investor survey for the last nine years. Prior to joining the firm in 2001, Subramanian was an analyst at Scudder Kemper Investments in New York and San Francisco. Subramanian is on the advisory board of the UCLA Master of Financial Engineering program, on the membership committee of Q Group, and is a member of the Chicago Quantitative Alliance and the Society of Quantitative Analysts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What should you do when an investment suddenly becomes hot or cold? How should investors think about sectors that fall in and out of favor? Should you be looking at countries like India and Japan or technologies like AI? Jan van Eck, CEO of Van Eck Funds, which oversees $75 billion in ETFs, speaks with Barry Ritholtz about how to identify when an asset class falls into or out of favor.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Jim O'Shaughnessy, founder and CEO of O'Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. He is also chairman of the board at Stability AI. He is the host of the Infinite Loops podcast and the author of Invest Like the Best, What Works on Wall Street, How to Retire Rich and Predicting the Markets of Tomorrow. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Are your expensive active mutual funds and ETFs actually active? Or, as is too often the case, are they only pretending to be active? Do they charge a high active fee but then behave more like an index fund? Andrew Slimmon, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, speaks with Barry Ritholtz about the advantages of concentrated portfolios. If you want to own active funds, then make sure they differ their benchmarks and truly are active.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to technology, media and financial services executive Joanne Bradford. She was previously president of Honey, where she orchestrated the company's sale to PayPal Holdings Inc. for $4 billion. She has been named one of Ad Age's 100 Most Influential Women in Advertising. She previously held executive leadership positions at Social Finance Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Demand Media Inc. and the San Francisco Chronicle.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We know it's challenging, but should you try your hand at stock picking? It's fun, it gives you something to talk about at parties, but is it profitable? Larry Swedroe, Head of Financial and Economic Research at Buckingham Strategic Wealth, which manages or advises on $70 Billion in client assets, speaks with Barry Ritholtz about the challenges of picking stocks. Only a few people have been successful at it over time, and they have become household names. Most of the rest have not earned their costs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Dr. Ed Yardeni, President of Yardeni Research, Inc., a provider of global investment strategies and asset-allocation analyses and recommendations. He previously served as Chief Investment Strategist of Oak Associates, Prudential Equity Group, and Deutsche Bank's US equities division in New York City.  He taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and was an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the US Treasury Department in Washington, D.C. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bill McBride of Calculated Risk has spent the past 20 years taking apart economic data, creating “opinion-free” analysis of the economy, and accurately identifying booms, busts, bubbles, and recoveries in real-time, including the great financial crisis and its subsequent housing bottom + recovery.  He speaks with Barry Ritholtz about the data that matters, and the data that doesn't, and how investors can tell them apart.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Ashish Shah, co-head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management LP's global fixed income and liquidity solutions business. He is also the chief investment officer for public investing, and serves as global head of GSAM's cross-sector strategy and as a member of the fixed income strategy group. Prior to joining the firm, Shah was chief investment officer for global credit and head of fixed income for AllianceBernstein LP, where he oversaw all credit-related strategies. Shah was previously managing director and head of global credit strategy at Barclays Capital Inc., responsible for the high-grade, high-yield, structured credit and municipal strategy groups and the special situations research team, and head of credit strategy at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Are your expensive active mutual funds and ETFs actually active? Or, as is too often the case, are they only pretending to be active? Do they charge a high active fee but then behave more like an index fund? If so, you are the victim of closet indexing. Andrew Slimmon, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, leads the Applied Equity Advisors team and serves as Senior Portfolio Manager for all long equity strategies. He speaks with Barry Ritholtz about the best ways to avoid the funds that charge high fees but fail to provide the benefits of active management.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Samara Cohen, senior managing director at BlackRock Inc. and chief investment officer of the firm's ETF & Index Investments. She is also a member of BlackRock's Global Executive Committee and its investment and talent subcommittees. Cohen is also the Global Executive Committee's sponsor for BlackRock's Women's Initiative & Allies Network and a member of the Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Steering Committee. She was previously a managing director in the securities division of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., where she built and led the global market transition team following the 2008 global financial crisis.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Markets go up and down as news breaks, companies miss earnings estimates, and economic data disappoints. It's not too hard to see why staying the course can be a challenge for investors. Larry Swedroe, Head of Financial and Economic Research at Buckingham Strategic Wealth, which manages or advises on $70 Billion in client assets, speaks with Barry Ritholtz about the best ways to navigate through this sea of noise and stay the course.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Ed Hyman, founder and chairman of Evercore ISI International Ltd. and vice chairman of Evercore Inc. He also heads Evercore ISI's economic research team. Hyman was the chairman and founder of ISI Group LLC. He previously served as vice chairman and board member of C.J. Lawrence Inc. and was an economic consultant at Data Resources Inc. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Interest rates have increased by over 500 basis points over the past 24 months. It is a new interest rate regime, and TINA is no more. Investors should be considering capturing some of that yield in their portfolios. Jim Bianco, President and macro strategist at Bianco Research, L.L.C., speaks with Barry Ritholtz about the alternatives to equity that are producing real yield. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Angus Deaton, senior scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. In 1976, he became a professor of econometrics at the University of Bristol and moved to Princeton as a professor of economics and international affairs in 1983. He became an emeritus professor in 2016. In 2015, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is the author of almost 200 papers and six books, including The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality; Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality; and, with Anne Case, of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The past few years have seen market swings wreak havoc with investor sentiment. But despite the volatility, markets have made new all-time highs. In this episode, Barry Ritholtz speaks to Liz Ann Sonders, Chief Investment Strategist and Managing Director at Schwab where she helps clients invest $8.5 Trillion in assets. Sonders observes that volatility is the norm, and investors should take advantage of swings to rebalance their portfolio. Or as she describes it, “add low, trim high.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Big Take from Bloomberg News brings you inside what's shaping the world's economies with the smartest and most informed business reporters around the world. The context you need on the stories that can move markets. Every afternoon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Liz Ann Sonders, managing director and chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. A keynote speaker at numerous company and industry conferences, Sonders has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, CBS News, Yahoo Finance and Fox Business News. She has been named best market strategist by Kiplinger Personal Finance and one of SmartMoney magazine's Power 30. She has also been named to the Barron's 100 Most Influential Women in Finance, Think Advisor IA25 and Forbes 50 Over 50 lists. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Throughout history, investing has been a lot more “Art” than “Science.” But today, data is widely available and it's a key tool you can use to enhance your portfolio returns. In this episode, Barry Ritholtz speaks to Jim O'Shaughnessy, former chairman and founder of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management (now part of Franklin Templeton) and author of the New York Times bestselling book, “What Works on Wall Street” -- the first quantitative investing book available to the general public.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Mark Wiedman, senior managing director, head of the global client business and member of the global executive committee of BlackRock. He joined the firm in 2004 to help start the Financial Markets Advisory business. Mark led BlackRock's 2008 creation of PennyMac, now the No. 2 US mortgage bank, and served on its public board from 2013 to 2019. He previously served as senior adviser to the undersecretary for domestic finance at the US Treasury and a consultant at McKinsey & Co. He serves on the boards of the National Committee for US-China Relations and Focusing Capital on the Long Term.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Markets have been waiting for the Federal Reserve to begin cutting rates for over a year. What data should investors be following for insight into when they will begin? Jim Bianco, President and Macro Strategist at Bianco Research, L.L.C., speaks with Barry Ritholtz about using initial unemployment claims data and wage gain to identify when the Fed will lower rates. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Sean Dobson, chairman, CEO and CIO of Amherst Holdings LLC, which manages $16.8 billion and focuses on single-family rentals, mortgage-backed securities and commercial real estate. Dobson and Amherst advised the White House, senators, congressmen, the Federal Reserve Board and investors during the global financial crisis. He currently serves as a governing trustee for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and is a co-founder of CapCityKids.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Investors hate inflation. How can they evaluate what inflation means to the Federal Reserve and possibly future rate cutes? Former Federal Reserve economist Claudia Sahm, best known for the rule bearing her name, speaks with Barry Ritholtz about using CPI data to anticipate future Fed action and changes in interest rates. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to David Snyderman, global head of Magnetar Capital LLC's alternative credit and fixed income business. He also serves as chairman of Magnetar's investment committee and as a member of its management committee. Snyderman, who joined Magnetar in 2005 shortly after its launch, was previously the head of global credit and a senior managing director at Citadel Investment Group, and he served as a member of the management, portfolio management and investment/risk committees. Prior to joining Citadel, David focused on convertible securities, merger arbitrage and special situations portfolios at Koch Industries Inc. Snyderman is a founding board member of the Magnetar Capital Foundation,See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Deal, hosted by Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly, features intimate conversations with business titans, sports champions and game-changing entrepreneurs who reveal their investment philosophies, pivotal career moves and the ones that got away. From Bloomberg Podcasts and Bloomberg Originals, The Deal is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, Bloomberg Carplay, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also watch The Deal on Bloomberg Television, and Bloomberg Originals on YouTube.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 There's been criticism of what some call “Woke Investing.” But “Value-based investing” is more politically agnostic than its critics realize. Used by Pro-life investors like the Catholic Church, it aligns capital with deeply held beliefs – be they left or right.  In this episode, Barry Ritholtz speaks to Meir Statman, Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University.  Statman is an award-winning expert on investor behavior and financial decision-making.  His book “What Investors Really Want” has become a classic that explains what drives investors.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Andrew Slimmon, managing director at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. He is also the lead senior portfolio manager on all long equity strategies for the applied equity advisors team, as well as a member of the Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Global Investment Committee. He began his career at Morgan Stanley in 1991 as an adviser in private wealth management, and later served as chief investment officer of the Morgan Stanley Trust Co. Previously, he was an analyst and portfolio manager for Brown Brothers Harriman and a buy-side equity research analyst with ARCO Investment Management. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How well do you understand yourself? For investors, it is an important question. We're co-conspirators in self-deception and this prevents us from having accurate self-knowledge. This does not lead to good results in the markets.  To explain, Barry Ritholtz welcomes David Dunning to the podcast. Dunning is a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. Dunning's research focuses on decision-making in various settings. In work on economic games, he explores how choices commonly presumed to be economic in nature actually hinge more on psychological factors, such as social norms and emotion.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Bill Dudley, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and former president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he also served as vice chairman and a permanent member of the Federal Open Market Committee. He is the chair of the Bretton Woods Committee, and has been a nonexecutive director at Swiss bank UBS since 2019. Previously, he was executive vice president of the Markets Group at the New York Fed, where he also managed the System Open Market Account. He has also been a partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs & Co. and was the firm's chief US economist; vice president at the former Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. Ltd.; and chairman of the Committee on the Global Financial System of the Bank for International Settlements. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What does history tell us about how war impacts the stock market? What is the correlation between geopolitical conflict and inflation? Can these patterns inform us of future bull market behavior? In this episode, Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jeffrey Hirsch about what happens to equities after global conflicts. Hirsch is editor of the Stock Trader's Almanac & Almanac Investor Newsletter. He's devoted much of his career to the study of historical patterns and market seasonality in conjunction with fundamental and technical analysis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Tuesday, Barry sat down with Bloomberg's Elon, Inc. podcast to discuss his thoughts on the most consequential and controversial business leader of our time - Elon Musk. Ritholtz shares his views on SpaceX, Tesla, and Musk's leadership of his companies over the years. He also digs into Musk's relationship with Wall Street. Listen to this clip, then head over to the Elon, Inc. feed for the whole episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Market structures are broken and value investing is dead. That's the view from David Einhorn. On this episode, the president of Greenlight Capital sits down for a wide-ranging discussion with Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz. Einhorn is also chairman of the boards of Greenlight Capital Re Ltd. and Green Brick Partners Inc. He started the Einhorn Collaborative, which seeks to help Americans build stronger relationships, embrace their differences, and rediscover shared values and humanity.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How much you pay for stocks really matters. Should value investing be part of that strategy? To find out more, Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jeremy Schwartz. Schwartz is Global Chief Investment Officer of WisdomTree, leading the firm's investment strategy team in the construction of equity Indexes, quantitative active strategies and multi-asset Model Portfolios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Tom Hancock, a partner at GMO LLC, where he is also head of the focused equity team. He manages the focused quality fund and its new Quality ETF, and is the portfolio manager for quality strategies. He previously served as co-head of the firm's global equity team. Prior to joining GMO, he was a research scientist at Siemens and a software engineer at IBM. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Investors don't like recessions. But how can they tell if one's coming? There's an indicator for that. It's called the "Sahm Rule," named for economist Claudia Sahm. Sahm is a former Federal Reserve economist best known for the rule bearing her name. In this episode, she speaks with Barry Ritholtz about using labor data to forecast recessions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Sarah Kirshbaum Levy, chief executive officer of Betterment LLC, an independent digital investment adviser with $40 billion in assets under management. Prior to joining Betterment, Levy was chief operating officer of Viacom Media Networks, where she oversaw global strategy, finance and operations. Previously, Levy served as COO at Nickelodeon, where she spearheaded Nickelodeon's entry into new segments, including consumer products, resorts, Broadway and theme parks, and subscription video on demand.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're coming up on tax season, after a banner year for stocks. Successful investors could be looking at a big tax bill from the US government. But how can you avoid sticker shock when Uncle Sam comes knocking? On this episode of At the Money, Barry Ritholtz speaks to Ari Rosenbaum about investment vehicles designed to avoid big tax bills. Rosenbaum serves as the Director of Private Wealth Solutions at O'Shaughnessy Asset Management. He leads the team that delivers OSAM strategies to advisors, consultants, wealth management firms, multi-family offices and private banks.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Shomik Dutta, founder and managing partner at Overture, a venture capital firm focused on climate tech and sustainability startups. He is also co-founder and general partner of Higher Ground Labs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What do investors really want?  Long-term capital appreciation and income are the obvious answers. But, it turns out they actually want a lot more than that.  On this episode, Barry Ritholtz speaks to Meir Statman, Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University.  Statman is an award-winning expert on investor behavior and financial decision making.  His book “What Investors Really Want” has become a classic that explains what drives investors.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Cathy Marcus, co-chief executive officer and global chief operating officer of PGIM Real Estate. As co-CEO, Marcus develops and leads the company's global strategy. As global COO, she is responsible for overseeing business and investment operations globally. Marcus is co-chair of the board of directors of RealAssetX, PGIM Real Estate's innovation lab aimed at accelerating advancement in the real assets industry. She was previously senior portfolio manager for PGIM Real Estate's flagship core equity real estate fund.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Investor incompetence might play a larger role in poor performance than you think. That's thanks to a phenomenon called the Dunning-Kruger Effect. To explain, Barry welcomes David Dunning to the podcast. Dunning is a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. Dunning's research focuses on decision-making in various settings. In work on economic games, he explores how choices commonly presumed to be economic in nature actually hinge more on psychological factors, such as social norms and emotion.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.