This podcast examines what a wave of large IPOs means for capital allocation and cost of capital, and then turns to the harder question: when underexposure to AI and overconcentration in AI are both genuine risks, how do you decide which one to live with?

Private equity was long the preserve of endowments, pensions, and the ultra-wealthy, but the line between public and private markets is blurring. Private investments portfolio manager Peter Lieu and institutional portfolio manager Kevin Minas explain why companies are staying private longer, how secondaries and continuation…

The four largest hyperscalers are expected to spend roughly $700 billion on AI capital expenditures this year, a scale with few historical parallels outside the railroads. Equity analyst Irena Petkovic examines what that spending is actually buying and what has to be true for it to pay off.

Although inflation risks have moderated, they have not disappeared. Central banks around the globe are increasingly debating rate hikes. The Fed is expected to remain on hold, but policy risks remain skewed toward hawkish outcomes.

In markets, investors observe outcomes—returns, volatility, periods of out or under performance—and from those patterns build explanations about how the world works. Over time, those explanations harden into beliefs, and those beliefs become the map.

In this episode, Mawer IM discusses the defense industry's evolution with equity analyst Joshua Samuel. He highlights the historical underinvestment in European defense, the recent increase in defense spending, particularly Germany's program, and the strategic importance of land systems.

Emerging markets portfolio manager Wen Quan Cheong walks through how his team puts believability-weighted decision making into daily practice, and where AI has genuinely enhanced the process.

Today’s AI financing wave looks more disciplined than past infrastructure investment booms, yet it still demands selectivity.

In this episode, Jeff Mo, U.S. mid-cap portfolio manager, explores a fundamental shift in how economies may grow over the next decade.

In this episode of Unearthed, hosts Joe Cavatoni and John Reade sit down with Rebecca Patterson, globally respected macroeconomic investor, Vanguard board member, and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, to unpack the fast-moving and increasingly complex global economic landscape.

Listen in to hear Griffin Sullivan's take on consumer trends and corporate credit curves.

Global equity portfolio manager, Paul Moroz, speaks to a wide range of market topics, including what higher discount rates mean for equity valuations and the subtle shifts you might not see in the headlines but that absolutely matter. Stay tuned for the second half, where Paul discusses Millennium Prize math problems,…

In this episode of Fixing Your Interest, PIMCO's Kris Kraus is joined by Greg Conlon, CEO of High Ridge Aviation, to explore how aviation finance works, what's driving the opportunity today, and why investors are paying growing attention to the sector.

Memory prices have surged, and no one can say where they will be in 2029 or 2030. Equity analyst Shan Rui Yeo explains how the team values SK Hynix when the range of outcomes is that wide: a Monte Carlo framework that runs a discounted cash flow through thousands of scenarios and prices the business on a distribution of…

Canadian equities gained in the second quarter of 2026 even as the economy tripped the technical definition of a recession and an oil shock sent crude toward $120 before it fell back. Institutional Portfolio Manager Kevin Minas and Investment Counsellor Stu Morrow review the quarter.

What innovative strategies are market participants increasingly exploring to measure growth? S&P DJI’s Jason Ye sits down with Andrew Geoghegan from ausbiz to discuss how GARP, or growth at a reasonable price, is an approach that is gaining traction in the Australian market.

Welcome to the first episode of our new FTSE Russell Convenes Scholar & Investor series, where we bring together academic insight and investment expertise. In this episode, Constantine Yannelis and Thomas Moore explore the intersection of AI, energy innovation and the UK stock market.

Rob Arnott, Founder & Chair of Research Affiliates, discusses where AI works well and can assist across the money management ecosystem, the risk of ‘AI hallucination’ & over-reliance, quant vs human judgement, and the future of work.

Defense budgets are on the rise, but where is the money going and what does it mean for investors? In this episode, MFS describes how global defense spending is shifting from cyclical discretion into strategic necessity, focusing on how the money is being spent, why long-term earnings visibility is improving, and what new…