321. Lisa Laird of Mercy Investments: On the importance of Kindness as a Path to Impact

Lisa Laird is CIO at Mercy Investment Services in St. Louis. She has previously held senior strategist roles as well as other healthcare leadership roles, and currently holds a number of additional board roles....
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320. Nick Spencer of Milliman: Risk as a Lens, Impact as a Mission

Nick Spencer is a senior consultant and sustainability risk specialist in the Milliman Life and Financial Services practice based in London. He is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and past Chair of its Sustainability Board and a past Council Member. He has written extensively on the integration of climate risks into actuarial work...
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Bonus Episode: Are We Losing Our Minds – Part II: Carolina Pacheco-Punceles Stopping the Slide

In Part 1 of this special series focused on our brain power and whether we are losing our minds, we addressed the slide we are reported to be experiencing in terms of attention span and critical thinking capacity.   Now In Part 2 we ask what we can do now to address slide. We are joined again by Carolina Pacheco-Punceles. She is a Behavioral Ec...
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319: Kristen Van Gelder of Evanston Capital Management, Running her Own Race in Hedge Funds and Beyond

Kristen Van Gelder is Partner and Co-CIO at Evanston Capital Mangement, where she has spent her entire career since college.  We begin our conversation with the roots of Kristen’s career, which corresponds quite closely with the roots and growth of Evanston Capital Management from the Northwestern University Endowment Management Team. Her c...
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Bonus Episode: Are We Losing Our Minds, Part I – A conversation about cognitive function with Carolina Pacheco-Punceles

Are we slipping in our intellectual abilities? Have we lost the ability to read, reason, analyze, and more importantly pay attention? Over the past decade we have seen a deluge of challenges – from Covid and its disruptive effect on education, to the rising use of screens and smart phones to the more recent threat from LLMs and an increasingly...
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318. Artemiza Woodgate PhD of Integrated Quantitative Investments LLC : 3Ms Define a Trajectory

Artemiza Woodgate is Founding Partner at Integrated Quantitative Investments LLC, based in Seattle.  She has spent most of her career in the quantitative investment arena, including close to 5 years with Numeric, Man Group, and over 11 years with Russell Investments. ...
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317. Henry Song: Fixed Income Portfolio Manager at Diamond Hill – Finance as a People Business

Henry Song is a portfolio manager for Diamond Hill, a asset manager headquartered in Columbus Ohio with approximately $30 bn in AUM. He joined the firm in 2016. Prior to joining Diamond Hill, Henry was a portfolio manager at J.P. Morgan Asset Management from 2005 to 2016.  He specializes in securitized credit....
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316. Jo Kempton, Head of Lincolnshire Pension Fund, Reflections on a career in Public Service and a Time of Transformational Change

Jo Kempton is Head of Lincolnshire Pension Fund, where she has spent most of her career in various roles, including as the manager of an internal UK equity portfolio. She is an active participant on the local government pension scheme circuit.  ...
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315. Stuart Dunbar of Baillie Gifford: On Transparency and Doing Worthwhile Work

Stuart Dunbar is a Partner at Baillie Gifford, based in Edinburgh, where he has worked since 2003. He previously held a range of institutional marketing roles, but before that there were some unexpected interests and pursuits....
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