Why Invest?
Episodes
Allocating to Private Markets with Luke Hyde-Smith and Lorenzo Marchioni
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we are joined by Waverton’s Luke Hyde-Smith, Co-Head of Multi Asset Strategies and Lorenzo Marchioni, Head of Private Markets who se...
Sukh Chamdal: Co-Founder of Cake Box
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we are joined by entrepreneur Sukh Chamdal, the Co-Founder of egg-free cake company Cake Box. After 13 years of extraordinary growth, ...
BONUS EPISODE: A year in review with Rory Sutherland
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus Christmas episode we are joined by special guest Rory Sutherland. He is the vice chairman of Ogilvy UK, columnist for The Spectator and ...
Symon Stickney: Founder and CEO of Collidr
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Symon Stickney is the Founder and Group CEO of Collidr, a multipurpose platform that aims to enhance investment decisions by addressing human biases. ...
Will Greenwood and Ben Fennell: How to Lead, Learn and Grow like a Champion
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Will Greenwood, best known for being part of the 2003 Rugby World Cup-winning team, and Ben Fennell, former CEO of creative agency BBH have written a ...
Celia Pool: Co-Founder of DAME
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Celia Pool is the Co-Founder of DAME, a period product start up that produces sustainable tampons and reusable pads and applicators. In this episode w...
Nick Browne and Ed Clayton: Co-Founders of Devyce
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Browne and Ed Clayton are the Co-Founders of Devyce, an app-based platform that lets you get a business phone number (mobile or landline) that ca...
Dominic Scriven OBE: Sustainable Investing in Frontier Markets Part 2
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second instalment of a two-part episode with Dominic Scriven OBE. We continue our conversation on environmental, social and governance fac...
Dominic Scriven OBE: Sustainable Investing in Frontier Markets Part 1
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dominic Scriven OBE is the Founder and Chairman of Dragon Capital, an investment manager based in Vietnam. In this episode we delve into the interpret...
Oliver Shurville: Founder of Tentbox
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Oliver Shurville is the Founder of Tentbox, a revolutionary roof tent company that allows you to turn a car of any size into a mini campervan. In this...
Kam Dehdashti: Co-Founder of The Little Door & Co.
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kam Dehdashti is the Co-Founder of The Little Door & Co, a bar and restaurant group with all venues styled around a fictional flat share. In this ...
Alice Wang: Why invest in China?
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alice Wang is the manager of the Quaero Capital Bamboo and China funds. In this episode we discuss Alice’s investment philosophy and how she thinks ...
Simon Rogerson: Founder of Octopus Group
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Rogerson is an entrepreneurial heavyweight who launched his first business, Octopus Investments when he was just 24 years old. Since then he has...
Sophie Breitmeyer: The Modern-day Family Jeweller
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sophie Breitmeyer is the founder of an independent family jeweller based in Notting Hill bearing her own name, Sophie Breitmeyer. In this episode, we ...
Charlotte Yonge: Fund Manager and Founder of GAIN
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Yonge is the Fund Manager of the Trojan Ethical Fund and Founder of GAIN ‘Girls Are Investors’, a charity set up to promote and inspire ...
Lisa Conway-Hughes: Founder of Miss Lolly
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Conway-Hughes is a chartered independent financial adviser dedicated to financial education and in particular, helping women to become money savv...
James Mee: Why multi-asset?
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
James Mee is a Fund Manager and Asset Allocation Committee member at Waverton. In this episode, he joins Doug to discuss the benefits of multi-asset i...
Entrepreneur Special: Peter Roberts, Founder of PureGym
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Roberts is a serial entrepreneur who famously founded the low-cost gym disruptor, PureGym. In this episode Peter shares his experience of buildi...
ICYMI William de Gale: Why invest in global technology?
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
William de Gale is the founder of Blue Box Asset Management and lead manager of the Blue Box Global Technology Fund. In this episode, William defines ...
Investment Philosophy with Charlie Jones
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Doug is joined by Charlie Jones, Fund Manager at Waverton to discuss and define what we mean by investment philosophy. They examine a ...
Karim Kaddoura: Co-Founder of Virtuo
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast we are joined by Karim Kaddoura, the Co-Founder of Virtuo, a tech-enabled, contactless car rental service. We discuss why Kar...
Hugh Yarrow: Founder of Evenlode Investment
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are joined by Hugh Yarrow, the Founder of Evenlode Investment, a long-only investment manager based in Oxfordshire. We discuss how...
Tim Whiting: Founder and CEO of Timothy James and Partners
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are joined by Tim Whiting, the founder and CEO of Timothy James and Partners, our independent financial planning partner. We discu...
Barney Mannerings: Founder of Vega Protocol
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we are joined by Barney Mannerings, the founder of Vega Protocol. Vega is a platform for creating and trading derivatives on a fully a...
George Arbuthnott: Investigative journalism in a post-truth world
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are joined by George Arbuthnott, a multi-award winning investigative journalist and co-author of ‘Failures of State: The Inside ...
Tineke Frikkee: Manager of the Waverton UK Equity Fund
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are joined by Tineke Frikkee, manager of the Waverton UK Equity Fund. We talk about how to play the digitalisation theme in the UK...
Entrepreneur Special: Rik Campbell, Co-Founder of Kricket restaurants
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The hospitality sector has been hit hard during the pandemic, but with a shift to home deliveries and the employment of cloud kitchens, some restauran...
William Dinning: Lockdown one year on
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak about 2020 in a historical context and consider who will repay the mountains of debt accrued by governments around the world...
Business Aviation with Richard Koe, Managing Director of WINGX
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Koe is the Managing Director at WINGX, a data research and consulting company within the business aviation industry. We discuss how Richard go...
Entrepreneur Special: Jamie Foale CEO and Co-Founder of Playfinder
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie Foale is the CEO and Co-Founder of Playfinder, an online booking platform for local sports facilities in the UK. Playfinder is a prime example o...
Keld Van Schreven: Crypto beyond Bitcoin
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Keld van Schreven is the Co-Founder of KR1, a Blockchain Investment Company that supports early stage decentralised and open source Blockchain project...
Intergenerational Wealth Transfer with Nick Cawley
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Cawley is the Regional Head of UK / Ireland and Global Private Clients Service Line Leader at Ocorian, a financial services company. In this epis...
Paul Ford: Founder and CEO of Acin
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Ford is the Founder and CEO of Acin, a company that revolutionises the way financial institutions manage non-financial risk and controls. With so...
Andy Seaman: Manager of the Stratton Street Renminbi Bond Fund
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Seaman is the Manager of the Stratton Street Renminbi Bond Fund. In this episode we discuss why he started the fund in 2007, where he finds his b...
Entrepreneur Special: Charles Robinson, Founder of GelCard
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Robinson is the 20 year old founder of GelCard, a company that he started in 2020 when his studies were halted due to Covid-19. The company ma...
Entrepreneur Special: Jamie Dundas, Founder of Monday Works
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie Dundas is the founder of Monday Works, a company that specialises in the launch and growth of flexible work spaces. He is also a co-founder of T...
Entrepreneur Special: James Lowther, Founder of The Lacquer Company
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
James Lowther is the founder of The Lacquer Company, a lacquer production company based in Saigon that specialises in bespoke, contemporary designs. I...
Entrepreneur Special: Alistair Frost, Founder of Pentire Drinks
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alistair Frost is the founder of Pentire Drinks, a non-alcoholic spirits company based in Cornwall. In this episode we discuss how he founded the busi...
Entrepreneur Special: Charlie Jardine, Founder of EO Charging
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Jardine is the founder and CEO of EO Charging, a company that designs and manufactures charging points for EV cars in the UK. In this episode ...
Danyal Sattar, CEO of Big Issue Invest: Why impact investing?
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Danyal Sattar is the CEO of The Big Issue Invest, the social enterprise investment arm of The Big Issue magazine managing and advising on over £250m....
Rory Penn, Head of Knight Frank Private Office: Prime Residential and Commercial Capital Markets
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rory Penn is Partner and Head of Knight Frank’s Private Office here in London. His expertise span both the commercial and residential side of ...
Stephen Yiu: Founder and Manager of the Blue Whale Growth Fund
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Yiu is the founder of Blue Whale Capital and the lead manager of the Blue Whale Growth Fund. Stephen started his career as a fund manager...
Max Ward: Why invest in deep tech?
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Max Ward is the Co-Founder of Luminous Ventures, a venture capital fund management firm based in London. It invests in early stage, deep tech and...
Isobel Fraser: Why do charities invest?
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week Isobel Fraser joins me to discuss why charities invest. We discuss how Charity clients differ from traditional private clients, the difficul...
Tyler Goodwin: Why invest in creative core real estate?
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Goodwin is the Founder and CEO of Seaforth Land, a commercial real estate specialist in London. In this episode, we discuss Tyler’s background...
James Carter: Why invest in bonds?
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
James Carter is a Credit Analyst in the Fixed Income team at Waverton. In this episode we discuss why we invest in bonds, the history of fixed income ...
Rick Stockley: Why is blockchain making my life easier?
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we speak to Rick Stockley, Head of Blockchain at IBM UK. He is also the product lead on a platform called TradeLens. We introduce Trad...
Ida Weatherall: Why invest in wine?
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ida Weatherall is a Fine Wine Sales Executive at Corney & Barrow in London. In this episode of the podcast we discuss Ida’s experience, how she ...
William Dinning: Are we experiencing a new stagflation? Part 2
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
William Dinning is the CIO and chair of the Asset Allocation Committee at Waverton. This is the second of a two-part episode where we discuss the caus...
William Dinning: Are we experiencing a new stagflation? Part 1
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
William Dinning is the CIO and chair of the Asset Allocation Committee at Waverton. This is the first of a two-part episode where we discuss the cause...
Luke Hyde-Smith: Why invest in real assets?
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Luke Hyde-Smith is co-manager of the Waverton Real Assets Fund and Head of Third-party Fund Selection at Waverton.In this episode Luke defines the opp...
William de Gale: Why invest in global technology?
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
William de Gale is the founder of Blue Box Asset Management and lead manager of the Blue Box Global Technology Fund.In this episode, William defines t...
Jennifer Fisher: Why invest in equities?
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jen Fisher is Head of Equities at Waverton. In this episode we discuss the three key disruptive themes of technology, geopolitics and ESG and cover ho...