The World for Sale: A conversation with the authors

Commodities in a Deglobalizing World with Jeremy Shapiro Commodities have been at the heart of globalization. Traders roamed freely and commodities priced to the marginal cost of production. Since the...

9 Maj 202357min

Commodity Indexes with Tim Kramer,  JC Kneale and Preston Peacock: Commodity indexes have grown in popularity among institutional and private investors, tracking the prices of a diversified basket of ...

2 Maj 20231h 8min

Description A View From the Top with Saad Rahim In this episode, Saad Rahim, Chief Economist of Trafigura, the global commodity trading house, joins us to give an overview on the current state of the ...

25 Apr 20231h

Powering Heavy Industry with Manoli YannaghasHeavy industry accounts for one third of power consumption. Many leading industrials and miners have ambitious targets to reach net zero. While renewables ...

18 Apr 202337min

How long will the energy transition take? The challenges are underestimated. Energy consumption will continue to expand as emerging economies develop, and as new classes of technologies emerge (not le...

11 Apr 20231h 10min

Hedge Funds & Commodities with Tor Svelland In this episode, we return to hedge funds and their role in commodities for investors, market participants and talent. Why is money returning to hedge funds...

4 Apr 202356min

The Pathways to Decarbonize Transportation with Michael Barnard In this episode, we take the long view of decarbonizing transportation. How will cars, trucks, trains and planes move in 2050? Which tec...

28 Mars 20231h 12min

In this special episode, I provide notes, quotes and my take away from the FT Commodities Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland. Starting the day Credit Suisse was taken over by UBS, the conference was held...

23 Mars 202329min