21/10/2017 0:10 - Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Jim Ross, the executive vice president of State Street Global Advisors and chairman of global SPDR. He also serves as chairman of the board of SSGA Funds Management, and as chairman and chief executive officer of State Street Global Advisors Funds Distributors. In addition, he won the 2016 ETF Lifetime Achievement Award. Ross explains how SPY, the S&P 500 ETF offered by State Street, became one of the biggest exchange-traded funds. He also discusses the origin of the Spyders Gold Trust, which briefly was bigger than SPY. ...
13/10/2017 17:10 - Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Paul Wilmott, the financial consultant specializing in derivatives, risk management and quantitative finance. He has worked with many leading U.S. and European financial institutions and has written several books, including the recent "The Money Formula: Dodgy Finance, Pseudo Science, and How Mathematicians Took Over the Markets." Wilmott really wants you to know his feelings about quantitative models -- he calls them the “engine room of both the global economy and its most recent meltdown.” ...
06/10/2017 1:10 - Fred Fox is the founder and CEO of Planalytics, a company specializes in business weather intelligence -- the study, development and commercialization of weather analytics. His clients are companies and NGOs who seek to better understand the impact of weather-related events. Fox advocates developing a corporate weather history in order to make assessments when future events occur. Planalytics gets granular with its data -- so much so that it can reasonably forecast how much an inch of snow will impact the month’s and quarter’s sales. ...