Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 27, 2025

All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio News. This is Masters in business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio Barry Ritholtz : This week on the podcast. What a fascinating guest. Mike Freno is chairman and CEO of Barings. They run over $431 billion in global assets.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

Next week could also see a shift toward mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Next week could also see a shift toward mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Even with new M&As, department stores face business model issues that go beyond the pandemic. “The They would come in, and they would dine.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 4, 2025

Melissa Smith : So I definitely thought that I was gonna work in the public sector when, when I’m recruiting at JP Morgan I always, you know, get the question sort of how did, how did you get into investment banking? Previously she was co-head of the bank’s Innovation Economy Group. It’s a pleasure to be here.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 27, 2025

He began with a single restaurant, a single cookie store, and eventually parlayed that into a series of acquisitions, mergers, expansions, ultimately leading to the Panera Bread concept, which now has 2000 locations and does about six and a half billion dollars. Ron Shake is a legend in the fast casual dining space. It was a business.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Now, Certify has reportedly added another travel and entertainment (T&E) industry peer to the mix. Financial details of the acquisition were not reported. Reports Thursday (Sept. 7) noted Certify is acquiring nuTravel in a deal that will see Certify able to launch a new solution using nuTravel technology.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The goal, said SiriusXM, is to build the “largest audio entertainment company.”. Through the merger, which is slated to close in the first quarter of 2019, SiriusXM gets Pandora’s 70 million monthly active users. SiriusXM is buying Pandora , the streaming music firm, for $3.5 billion in an all-stock transaction.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They’re one of the older private equity firms around, been been in business since 1994. They run over $27 billion in, in assets. Then I think you’re gonna find this to be a fascinating conversation. 00:01:24 [Michael Fisch] Thank you Barry. It’s a pleasure to be here. You get a Stanford MBA. What was the original career plan?

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

He brings an unusual background as both an m and a attorney and a derivative specialist at two of the best firms in the world for those spaces. Matt Levine writes The Money Stuff Daily newsletter for Bloomberg. Matt has become this fascinating character in the world of Wall Street research and analysis and commentary. I, I won a prize for.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 20, 2025

So I’m a happy camper. Where you have a, you know, a paycheck to go back to business school full time, which I did and thought while I’m here I’ll take a few investing courses and see if I can use those to earn back the opportunity cost of going to business school for two years. What was the career plan?

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The Big Picture

JULY 8, 2025

She’s had, you know, just about every job on the buy side and sell side, including portfolio manager, consultant to LBOs and m and as she’s just done so much stuff, it’s so interesting that she really brings just this unique set of experiences to Citi. I, I’m so glad I finally got, got you here.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 23, 2025

Steve Laipply : So I had a good friend who said, Hey, I’m taking finance. Yet another extra special guest, Steve Lightly is global co-head of Bond ETFs and investment giant BlackRock. He helps to oversee over a trillion dollars in bond ETFs. I thought this conversation was really fascinating. Steve Laipply : Thanks for having me, Barry.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

aren’t new – they go back to Disney ’s 2006 acquisition of Pixar. Fast-forward a few months, and it seems the Apple/Disney acquisition rumor is again riding high amid the wave of uncertainty crashing through markets, thanks to the coronavirus epidemic. The latest rumors about Apple buying Walt Disney Co. The service signed up 26.5

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

He is highly sought after as a counsel in this space, and I’m glad we had the opportunity to finally sit down and talk about the industry. He is highly sought after as a counsel in this space, and I’m glad we had the opportunity to finally sit down and talk about the industry. It’s so great to be here.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 11, 2024

Peter is the guy I look to when I wanna learn things about how to build a firm, how to grow organically, how to think about acquisitions, how to structure your company, really to become an enterprise as opposed to merely being a business. I’m having fun. You get a JD MBA from the University of Kansas in 1996. What was that like?

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

You start at Drexel in the M&A group, what was that, like? And I got the opportunity to work with some really interesting folks who continue today to be involved in private equity and private credit, and then see them all the time and I’m very proud of that time. This is really a fascinating story. It was a great time.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 5, 2024

I’m looking forward to our conversation. I 00:01:24 [Barry Ritholtz] Am also, I’m very familiar with Magnetar and, and its history. . ~~~ This is not an official transcript. 00:00:02 [Speaker Changed] Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio News. They have an incredible track record. David Snyderman. Louis for college.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

Just an incredible, insightful conversation about how to build a company, how to grow through acquisitions, how to make sure everybody on your team understands their role, is appreciated, and is acting and performing at the highest levels. Jenny Johnson is CEO of investment giant Franklin Templeton. They run about a $1.5 RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

KLINSKY: I’m a big fan of both of them and a big fan of the JD/MBA program and involved with both schools still today. I’m a big fan of multidisciplinary approaches. He eventually goes to a Forstmann Little where he’s one of the first five founding partners. They grew a business where they issued junk debt.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

He basically set up a foundation, joined The Giving Pledge, and became very active in both policy and entrepreneurship. Revolution is the outgrowth of his family office that does everything from seed to venture, to growth investing. Revolution is the outgrowth of his family office that does everything from seed to venture, to growth investing.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But she answers a question, I’m just sitting there dumbfounded by how she’s just like, oh my God, that’s just an absolutely comprehensive explanation about something I had no idea about, and now I feel like I really know. You started your career doing M&A at Goldman Sachs. What was that like?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Was this a distressed acquisition or — RIEDER: It was. And they took two of us, and I’m not sure how I made it through the strainer. He helps to oversee $2.5 trillion in various investments. I can keep babbling about how fascinating I found this discussion. You graduate Emory University with a degree in finance.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2025

00:01:58 [Speaker Changed] I’m just old. . ~~~ This is Masters in business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio Barry Ritholtz : This week, really an extra, extra special guest. So she’s seen this industry from all sides. She’s directly responsible for a hundred billion dollars. Tell us what, what the career plans were.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The merger was tumultuous. And Jamie did a great job of sort of reminding people that the enemy was outside the business, but he quickly uncovered where the merger had not executed the way it meant to. . ~~~ This is Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio. Peter Atwater, welcome to Bloomberg.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Barry Ritholtz : This week on the podcast, I have another extra special guest. Professor Michael Morris is a fascinating instructor of social psychology and the way tribalism affects us and the way we affect tribes. What was the original career plan? I went to do a PhD. It’s sort of a more mathy formal approach to the mind.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 24, 2024

In addition to covering Amazon, she is an award-winning reporter who has deep roots in both m and a and retail. I had no idea, as I’m reading the book, I’m just genuinely shocked. We’ve been ships in the night and I’m glad we finally did this. Her new book is really quite fascinating.

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