323. Jon Salstrom of Cincinnati Retirement System – Mission and Purpose and Strength in Unity

Jon Salstrom is Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer at the Cincinnati Retirement System, a role he has held for almost two years. He previously worked in a series of consulting and financial analyst roles. Our conversation starts by tracing his earlier career path, and particularly his roles in consulting which set him up well for the c...
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BONUS: Nicolás Dujovne, economist and former Minister of the Treasury of Argentina – a Panorama and a Snapshot

I am delighted to launch this bonus series featuring leading financial thinkers in Latin America with this podcast with Nicolás Dujovne, recorded live in Buenos Aires in late August. Nicolás is an Argentine economist and former Minister of the Treasury between 2017 and 2019 under the administration of Mauricio Macri. He has had a long career in f...
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322. Nadia Cobalovic of Northern Trust and Omnium Services – Pivots and Persistence

Nadia Cobalovic is Senior Vice President at Northern Trust and Global Head of Omnium Services, where she oversees teams encompassing Middle Office Operations, Back Office Administration and Data Delivery. She also contributes to business growth, strategic initiatives and new initiatives. ...
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Series 4 of 2025 – Trailer: From from Santiago to Salt Lake City – Tales that Endure

It has been an exciting summer, but we have managed to squeeze in a set of global guests for Series 4 of our 2025 Fiftyfaces Podcast – which takes us from the evolving world of hedge funds and the support infrastructure needed, to emerging market equities to late-stage venture capital to public pension pooling. ...
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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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