Private Capital

Zoe Cruz is a prominent figure in the financial services industry, known for her significant contributions and groundbreaking achievements as one of the highest-ranking women on Wall Street. She was named one of the Forbes top 50 women in business four years in a row.  With a career spanning over 25 years at Morgan Sta

Michael Weisz has a real knack for finding unconventional opportunities and a strong entrepreneurial spirit.  He cut his teeth in real estate, but quickly found his nuanced understanding of mis-priced risk prepared him for creative investments like litigation and receivable finance and strategies like loans to professi

Today’s guest is Ted Seides from Capital Allocators podcast.  I first did a print interview with Ted exactly seven years ago, when he had just completed his first book So You Want to Start a Hedge Fund? and had just started his podcast.  Since then he has written two more books, Capital Allocators and today’s topic Pri

Greg Fleming is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Rockefeller Capital Management, a role he has held since the firm, formerly known as Rockefeller & Co., launched in March 2018. Greg and I discuss the pivotal Lehman weekend in September of 2008 when he was instrumental in the sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of

Ken Kencel is the President & CEO of Churchill Asset Management, a $50 billion dollar platform serving over 700 institutional clients.  He shared valuable insights on the growing private credit market, the evolution of the industry, his first job at Drexel, working at Carlyle and then going out on his own to start Chur

Jason Schwarz is Deputy Chief Executive Officer and President at Wilshire, which currently manages over $100 billion in assets and advises on $1.3 trillion.  Jason was raised in a legal family, but his path diverged from the expected, fueled by a desire to carve his own niche. He told me, “I think you see this with son