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Members’ Profile: Anne-Marie de Bruin 

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My goal is to leverage my experience and skills in finance and strategic management to drive growth, operational efficiency, and long-term success for an organization. In finance, being able to foresee shifts in the market, economic changes, and emerging business opportunities would be invaluable.

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Best Financial Innovation Labs 2025

Global Finance

Areas of concentration are determined in part by the lab’s “innovation radar,” a proprietary trend-indexing framework that systematically searches for potentially game-changing innovations. Independent Fintech Labs Some innovation centers are unaligned with banks, VC firms, or economic development organizations.

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The Green Investment Puzzle

Global Finance

There is no shortage of capital, but much of it is concentrated in a few mature green technologies, while more-innovative or unproven sectors struggle to attract funding. Hot on their heels is the Saudis neighbor, the United Arab Emirates, leveraging its abundant sunshine for large-scale renewables projects. How can both be true?

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Stars Of China 2024: Innovation Nation

Global Finance

The toolbox is open, and the fine-tuning is underway, as China’s policymakers and financial institutions respond to the thorny economic challenges of the post-pandemic era. No doubt the government’s policy push to address the country’s economic challenges has given birth to invention at banks large and small.

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Transcript: Jeffrey Becker, Jennison Associates Chair/CEO

Barry Ritholtz

Their focus is on generating alpha with high conviction concentrated portfolios. You get a bachelor’s in economics from Colgate and then an MBA in finance from NYU Stern. I was an economics and English major. And you know, we’re a, we’re a concentrated manager. First, what is a concentrated portfolio?

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Transcript: Stephanie Kelton on US Fiscal Policy and the ‘Deficit Myth’

Barry Ritholtz

Professor Stephanie Kelton teaches Public Policy and Economics at SUNY Stony Brook. You get a bachelor’s, a BA and a BS in Economics and Business at California Sacramento, then University of Cambridge, master’s in Philosophy and Economics, then a PhD in economics at the New School. I happened to pick that one.

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Transcript: Bill Bernstein on Navigating Uncertainty

The Big Picture

Barry Ritholtz : And footnote Roger Lowenstein, when genius failed, is so instructive, not just because of the things you are referring to, failing to learn from history, the danger of leverage and, you know, tiny inefficiencies. Because they tend to be overly leveraged and with inflation, their debts tend to get inflated away.