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Howard Marks: Navigating Crises - Creed, Preparation and Emotional Control
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textHoward Marks – navigating the crisis - creed, preparation and control What kind of mindset and organisational culture does it take to sur...
Dealing with Trumpcertainty
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textThe Disruptor in Chief’s blizzard of executive orders, tariffs and foreign policy positions and his propensity to change them is making l...
Room 101: Project Coldplay
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textAs the wordly philosophers of Coldplay suggest, getting what you want, but not what you need, might leave you in need of fixing. Leaps in ...
Room 101: Performance fees - heads I win...???
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textJoe doesn’t like performance fees - but why? Are they innately problematic or just badly and perhaps cynically implemented in the mutual ...
Room 101: Chartcrime?
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textWe all have things in our working lives that drive us insane. Anyone who regularly listens to the pod will know that there are a few subjec...
May Contain Lies...
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIf you’ve been around the block, you will likely have seen some eye-rolling use of evidence during meetings. Evidence can be used badly f...
Pants on fire
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textLying – it’s something that all humans do. Most of the lies we tell are small and harmless. But deceptive behaviour in the investment i...
Underperformance - everyone's got a plan until they're hit in the face
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send a text𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿...
The other F word
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textThinking and talking about failure can be tough, especially when it’s us who’s failing. But it’s important for us as individuals an...
Christmas behaviour
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textWe downed some eggnog and decided to record an impromptu Christmas special. We have a chat about how insights from behavioural science migh...
Principled? Does power corrupt and absolute power corrupt absolutely?
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textFollowing the publication of a new book, 'The Fund', Ray Dalio and Bridgewater have been getting attention for all the wrong reas...
Seeing the future
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIn this episode we discuss how we can make better forecasts with Professor Paul Goodwin. We tackle everything from the techniques available...
Regrette, je regrette beaucoup de choses
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textDoes fear of getting things wrong stop you from making decisions? If so, you’re not alone. Regret can have a profound impact on our choi...
Lessons from Glastonbury
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textA bitesize episode with some thoughts from this year's Glastonbury festival.We tackle:Lana Del Rey - the need to understand who's...
Getting culture right - the perils of PowerPoint
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textIt is incredibly easy to be cynical when we hear businesses talk about culture. At one point or another, most of us have shuffled into a ro...
Diversity and Decisions: Things you don’t usually hear from a D&I advocate…
20 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textOur guest today, Tom Gosling, is a committed and thoughtful supporter of D&I. He's a practitioner turned academic who helps buil...
F&^% ups – how they happen, how they’re judged and how we can sort them
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textF&^% ups – how they happen, how they’re judged and how we can sort themAt some point in life, all of us will make some kind of toe-...
Lessons from the Fund Manager Whisperer - getting people to listen and change
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Send a textAll investment decision-makers need feedback to improve. The key question is how can we give feedback in a way that allows people to meanin...