Introducing: Stock Movers

Money goes where it's treated best. That simple truth is a big reason why more and more money—trillions, in fact—flows into a powerful, low-cost tool that's quietly transformed investing in recent years. Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, let you invest in everything from the stock market to gold like never before. This podcast will demystify them—and delight you in the process.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

28 Marras 20171min

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Felix Zulauf, the founder and president at Zulauf Asset Management AG. He founded the firm in 1990, focusing on macro and strategic issues, and has more than 30 years of experience in the financial markets and asset management. He now runs Zulauf Consulting and manages his own wealth in his familyoffice. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

21 Marras 20171h 16min

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Greg Sands, founder and managing partner at Costanoa Ventures. Prior to founding Costanoa, Sands was a Managing Director at Sutter Hill, where he invested in early stage enterprise software startups, such as Merced Systems, AllBusiness, Youku, Quinstreet, and Feedburner. He was the first product manager at Netscape Communications where he wrote the initial business plan, coined the name Netscape, and built the SuiteSpot Business unit from $0-$140M. He also served as a business development manager at Cisco where he architected a channel management plan. He served a term as the President of the Stanford DAPER (Athletics Department) Investment Fund and remains on the executive committee. He is also the former Trustee of the Stanford Business School Trust and former Chair of its Venture Capital Committee. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

16 Marras 20171h 7min

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Jean Case, a philanthropist, investor and pioneer in the world of interactive technologies. She worked in the private sector as a technology executive for nearly two decades, including at America Online Inc., before she and her husband, Steve, created the Case Foundation in 1997. In addition to her role as CEO of the Case Foundation, Jean is chairman of the National Geographic Society Board of Trustees and also serves on the boards of impact of investing in philanthropy Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure (ABC2), the White House Historical Association and BrainScope Co. Inc. She sits on the advisory boards of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Georgetown University’s Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation, the Brain Trust Accelerator Fund, and the George W. Bush Presidential Library Center’s Women’s Initiative Policy Advisory Council.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

10 Marras 201758min

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews John Montgomery, who founded Bridgeway Capital Management in 1993. The firm manages $8.4 billion dollars, and -- somewhat uniquely -- donates half of its profits to nonprofit organizations. Montgomery serves as chairman and chief investment officer, and is responsible for portfolio management, research, risk oversight and (his favorite) mentoring. Montgomery worked with computer modeling and statistical methods as a research engineer at MIT in the late 1970s, and later, at Harvard, investigated ways to apply such modeling to portfolio management.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

3 Marras 20171h 2min

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Scott Galloway, professor of marketing at NYU's Stern School of Business and author of the recent New York Times bestseller "The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google." Galloway is also the founder of several companies, including the business intelligence firm L2, and is the creator of the Digital IQ Index, a global ranking of prestige brands' digital competence. He has also been named one of the World Economic Forum's "Global Leaders of Tomorrow." He received a bachelor's degree from UCLA and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

27 Loka 20171h 19min

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Jim Ross, the executive vice president of State Street Global Advisors and chairman of global SPDR. He also serves as chairman of the board of SSGA Funds Management, and as chairman and chief executive officer of State Street Global Advisors Funds Distributors. In addition, he won the 2016 ETF Lifetime Achievement Award. Ross explains how SPY, the S&P 500 ETF offered by State Street, became one of the biggest exchange-traded funds. He also discusses the origin of the Spyders Gold Trust, which briefly was bigger than SPY. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

20 Loka 201754min

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Paul Wilmott, the financial consultant specializing in derivatives, risk management and quantitative finance. He has worked with many leading U.S. and European financial institutions and has written several books, including the recent "The Money Formula: Dodgy Finance, Pseudo Science, and How Mathematicians Took Over the Markets." Wilmott really wants you to know his feelings about quantitative models -- he calls them the “engine room of both the global economy and its most recent meltdown.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

13 Loka 201755min