Ep. 312: Deepak Gurnani on Five Steps for Using AI in Investing
Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez
Release Date: 06/12/2025
Ep. 314: Marvin Barth on Trump’s US Resurgence, No Fed Cuts and Dire Europe
Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez
Marvin Barth is the creator of Thematic Markets and ‘Seriously, Marvin?!’ Thematic Markets is rigorous, institutional-quality research aimed at market professionals, while Seriously, Marvin?! presents more accessible takes on contrarian musings Marvin does not have time to research at Thematic Markets. Both publications benefit from the uniquely broad perspective on the global political economy Marvin has gained from a three-decade career spanning nearly every asset class, academia, central banking, a finance ministry, and international institutions. This includes working at Barclays...
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Ep. 313: Tom Montag on the Undiscovered Potential of Carbon Markets
Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez
Tom Montag is the founding Chief Executive Officer of Rubicon Carbon. Tom has over 20 years of experience in financial markets. Previously, he was the Chief Operating Officer and President of global banking and markets at Bank of America. Tom was also a member of the company’s executive management team, overseeing all businesses serving corporations, institutional investors and government entities. Before this Tom was a partner at Goldman Sachs, a member of the management committee, and was co-head of the Securities Division. In this podcast we discuss the dawn of derivatives at Goldman...
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Ep. 312: Deepak Gurnani on Five Steps for Using AI in Investing
Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez
Deepak Gurnani is the Founder and Managing Partner of Versor Investments. He is the former CIO of Investcorp’s Hedge Fund Group and was one of its founding members in 1996. Deepak was also a member of its Management Committee. He retired from Investcorp in March 2013. Prior to Investcorp, Deepak spent six years with Citicorp. In this podcast we discuss everyone talking about data being important gets it wrong, five steps of applying AI/machine learning in investment management, conventional vs. alternative and unstructured data, and much more. Follow us here for more amazing...
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Ep. 311: Ralph Sueppel on Quant Trading Macro the Right Way
Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez
Ralph Sueppel is Managing Director for Research and Trading Strategies at Macrosynergy. Previously, he was an Executive Member and Portfolio Manager at Graham Capital. During his tenure there, he created the Systemic Risk and Systematic Value Project (now Macrosynergy Research), a non-profit project dedicated to educating the broader financial community on the merits of socially responsible macro trading strategies. Before Graham, Ralph was head of quant macro and algorithmic strategies at UBS and worked as Senior Strategist and Portfolio Manager at BlueCrest Capital. Ralph began his career at...
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Ep. 310: Helen Thomas on Trump’s Controlled Demolition Strategy
Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez
Helen Thomas is the CEO of Blonde Money, an independent consultancy firm that analyses and monitors mispriced risks in financial markets in the US, UK and the EU. Helen has a long and distinguished career in both finance and politics. She was an adviser to the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne. Previously, Helen has been a partner in the global macro hedge fund, ABD Investment Management, and a former Head of Currency Alpha for State Street Global Advisors. In this podcast we discuss the return of political risk after unusual low interest rate/low volatility world, S&P 500...
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Ep. 309: Adam Frank on Aliens, AI and Climate Collapse
Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez
Adam Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester. A self-described ‘evangelist of science,’ Adam regularly writes and speaks about subjects like intelligent life forms in the universe, high-energy-density physics, space exploration and missions, climate change and more. In this podcast we discuss public science communication and scientific denialism, intersection of science, art and spirituality, searching for aliens – SETI and the Fermi Paradox, and much more. Follow us here for more amazing insights:
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Ep. 308: Tobias Harris on Why Japan Matters
Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez
Tobias Harris is the Founder and Principal of Japan Foresight LLC. He has observed Japan as a political risk analyst at Teneo Intelligence and as a researcher at universities and think tanks. He is also Senior Advisor for Japan at Aurora Macro Strategies. Tobias is the author of ‘The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe and the New Japan’. In this podcast we discuss how Japan became key US ally since WW2, why Japan shifted its view on its global role since 2000s, Abe Shinzo’s role in transforming Japan’s political system and centralising power, and much more. Follow us here for more...
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Ep. 307: Michael Sandel on Populism, Saving Democracy, and Tyranny of Merit
Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez
Michael Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University. His writings – on justice, ethics, democracy, and markets – have been translated into more than 30 languages. His course ‘Justice’ is the first Harvard course to be made freely available online and on television, being viewed by tens of millions worldwide. Michael has served on the President’s Council on Bioethics and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Michael’s books relate enduring themes of political philosophy to the most vexing moral and civic questions of our time. His most recent works...
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Ep. 306: Ken Rogoff on Dollar Decline, Debt Worries and Fed Independence
Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez
Kenneth Rogoff is Maurits C. Boas Professor at Harvard University, and former chief economist at the IMF. He has long ranked among the top dozen most cited economists and is an international grandmaster of chess. His influential 2009 book with Carmen Reinhart, This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, shows the remarkable quantitative similarities across time and countries in the roots and aftermath of debt and financial crises. Rogoff is also known for his pioneering work on central bank independence, and on exchange rates. He is co-author of the widely used graduate text,...
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Ep. 305: James van Geelen on ‘Haves vs Have Nots’ Theme, AI and Tariffs
Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez
James van Geelen, founder of Citrini Research, which specializes in illuminating and demystifying the transformative 'megatrends' poised to shape societies, economies, and the market’s distribution of returns for years to come. In this podcast we discuss crossovers between emergency medicine and trading, importance of a beginner’s mindset, humility, and learning from others, macro and micro equals one feedback loop, and much more. Follow us here for more amazing insights:
info_outlineDeepak Gurnani is the Founder and Managing Partner of Versor Investments. He is the former CIO of Investcorp’s Hedge Fund Group and was one of its founding members in 1996. Deepak was also a member of its Management Committee. He retired from Investcorp in March 2013. Prior to Investcorp, Deepak spent six years with Citicorp. In this podcast we discuss everyone talking about data being important gets it wrong, five steps of applying AI/machine learning in investment management, conventional vs. alternative and unstructured data, and much more.
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