Masters in Business

Masters in Business

Barry Ritholtz speaks with the people that shape markets, investing and business.

Episodes

October 22, 2025 18 mins

ETFs gained a reputation for providing investors with low-cost index exposure, but many of the newest funds are actively managed. Some are costly and speculative. What is an ETF investor to do?

Dave Nadig is President and Director of Research at ETF.com, and he shares with us how investors should navigate all of these new products. He helped design and market some of the first exchange-traded funds.

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Barry speaks with Henry Ward, Chief Executive Officer at Carta, a technology company that provides capitalization table management and valuation software for startups. They discuss founding a business, the growth of private markets, and his lobby efforts for retail investors to access private markets.

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Are you underperforming our own investments? Did you know that many, maybe even most, investors do worse than the ETFs and Mutual Funds they hold do? The annual Morningstar study “Mind the Gap” has found a substantial difference between returns generated by investment funds and the actual returns investors experience.

Jeffrey Ptak is the managing director at Morningstar. Previously, he was the chief ratings officer.

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Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jurrien Timmer, director of global macro at Fidelity investments. They discuss his career path, key market charts and Timmer's "barbell approach" to investing in both high-flying tech stocks and equities outside of the US.

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October 8, 2025 17 mins

Farmland is a real asset that can be accessed through private funds. The asset has seen broad, non-correlated gains, hedged against rising prices. And farming acreage shrinks every year.

Brandon Zick is Chief Investment Officer of Ceres Farmland Fund (now part of Wisdom Tree); the fund owns and manages about $2 billion in agricultural land assets.

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Barry speaks with Jose Minaya, global head of BNY Investments and Wealth. In this episode, Jose and Barry discuss his career buy-side trading, investing in the alternatives space. The also discuss the changes blockchain and AI are bringing to asset management.

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October 1, 2025 14 mins

There will be nearly 1,000 new ETFs issued in 2025. Most of these are NOT the usual low-cost passive indices we think of. Instead, these tend to be complex, expensive, active funds in an ETF wrapper. Leveraged directional bets, options, or derivatives-based, and a whole raft of complex strategies.  

Dave Nadig is President and Director of Research at ETF.com, and he shares with us how investors should navigate all of...

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Barry speaks with Dmitry Balyasny, managing partner and chief investment officer at Balyasny Asset Management (BAM), a firm he co-founded in 2001. They discuss his career path, his thoughts on the current market environment for trading, hedge funds and more. 

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September 24, 2025 23 mins

Greed was long seen as a selfish vice, undercutting our happiness and our life satisfaction. Yet today, the pursuit of money is a driving factor in all of our lives. How did the love of money go from a vice to a virtue?

Paul Vigna is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and a 25 year veteran journalist, as a reporter, editor, and photographer, covering the cryptocurrency sector, bitcoin, other digital and blockchain-re...

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On this episode, Barry speaks with Jaime Magyera. She was recently tapped as head of retirement and US wealth for BlackRock. They discuss her career and unique experience working at one of the world's largest asset managers, trends in retirement and wealth management, the rise of alternative investments and more. 

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September 17, 2025 14 mins

How can investors find usable signal amidst all of the outrageous, algorithm-driven, clickbait? Noisy headlines can be a distraction from your long-term goals.  Michael Hiltzik covers business for the Los Angeles Times, is a two-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award and has authored numerous books on business. Each week, “At the Money” discusses an important topic in money management. From portfolio construction to ...

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Barry speaks with Heather Boushey, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Joe Biden. She is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. In this episode, they discuss the economic rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic, Biden's economic policy, and economic equality in the US.

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September 10, 2025 18 mins

Buying any car is an exciting milestone, but buying a supercar is next level. It's fraught with unique challenges, costs and responsibilities. There are some things you should know before you buy a Ferrari, Lamborghini, McLaren, Pagani, or any supercar.  

Hannah Elliot is the super car reviewer for Bloomberg, and has been covering the auto industry and exploring car culture for over 15 years. She also drives a 1975 Rolls ...

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Flying private used to be for billionaires, but that's no longer true. There's fractional ownership, hourly charter, jet cards, membership & leases. There is a way to fly private for a lot more budgets than there used to be..

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On this special edition of the show, Barry sits down with Neal Katyal, Milbank LLP partner and former acting Solicitor General of the US. Barry speaks with Katyal just days after his team won its challenge to President Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs. They discuss the process of challenging President Trump's authority to impose steep tariffs on imports from other countries and what next steps could look like as the case make...

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Barry speaks with Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics about his career and the state of the US economy today.

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How would you like to move from Labor to Capital? You can, by shifting some of your compensation from cash to equity. There are some tricky tax rules to learn, but potentially big gains to be had. 

Each week, “At the Money” discusses an important topic in money management. From portfolio construction to taxes and cutting down on fees, join Barry Ritholtz to learn the best ways to put your money to work.

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Barry speaks with Ellen Zentner, Chief Economist Strategist and Global Head of Thematic and Macro Investing for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and a member of the Firm’s Global Investment Committee. She and her team are responsible for generating event-driven and forward-looking secular thematic insights, identifying how they can contribute to Morgan Stanley’s individual- and institutional-investor portfolios, and gui...

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Have you ever thought about buying your own plane? It may not be as out of reach as you imagine. Sure, it’s not cheap, with maintenance, fuel, repair, and hangar costs, but the private aviation industry wants you to know there's a plane for nearly every budget.

 

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