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Incentivizing the Energy Transition Episode 1 | Peter Fusaro Talks Green and Sustainable Investing Feb 13, 2021

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In the first episode of a series on Environmental, Socially Responsible, and Governance-focused Investing, SmarterMarkets presents Peter Fusaro, veteran sustainability investor and organizer of the Wall Street Green Investing Conference. We discuss everything relating to ESG investing.

Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 11 | Ben Hunt on Narrative Management in Finance and Society as a Whole Feb 06, 2021

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Epsilon Theory founder Dr. Ben Hunt joins Smarter Markets to weigh in on how social media is being used to engineer the narratives which shape both financial markets and society more broadly. We discuss the influence of social media then go on to discuss how financial markets no longer serve society in the way they were intended, and what needs to be done to fix them.

Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 10 | Kirstine Stewart Weighing in on the Influence of Social Media in Markets and Society Jan 30, 2021

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Former senior Twitter executive and current head of Media, Sport & Entertainment for the World Economic Forum Kirstine Stewart weighs in on the growing influence of social media on financial markets and society as a whole, including whether and how social media should be governed to control abuse of its power of influence.

Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 9 | Mark Fisher Musing on How to Improve the Futures Markets Jan 23, 2021

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Commodity legend Mark Fisher shares some choice stories, including how the Hudson River can be used as a risk management tool to cure over-trading, then goes on to reflect on how the design of commodities futures markets could be improved.

Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 8 | Jos Schmitt Calling Out What’s Wrong with Conventional Equity Markets — and How to Fix Them Jan 16, 2021

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NEO Stock exchange founder Jos Schmitt explains why most existing stock exchanges give an unfair trading advantage to some customers over others, and explains why he launched a new exchange specifically designed to level the playing field for all investors.

Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 7 | Frank Lavin on Why Singapore Will Thrive as Asia’s New Financial Capital City Jan 09, 2021

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Former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore Frank Lavin weighs in on Singapore’s suitability as the emergent Asian Financial Capital City and Singaporean regulators’ willingness to consider new and innovative approaches to designing smarter financial markets.

Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 6 | Mike Green on Market Deficiencies and Incentives for Not Fixing Them Jan 02, 2021

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Logica Funds’ Mike Green explains why he and most of the smartest people in finance are in the business of exploiting and profiting from deficiencies of current markets, rather than fixing them. Mike explains why incentives don’t favor fixing what’s broken, and what we need to do to change the system and enable migration to a new generation of Smarter Markets.

Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 5 | Charlie McGarraugh on Translating Tokenization Jargon to Digestible English Dec 26, 2020

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Charlie McGarraugh is Chief Strategy Officer for Blockchain.com, the largest self-custodied crypto wallet provider globally. Previously he was a Goldman Sachs Partner and former head of metals trading, so his native language is finance. In this interview, Charlie explains Tokenization in terms that Finance professionals can relate to, then goes on to explain what this change will mean both to financial markets and to the people who work in them.

Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 4 | Thom McMahon Reflecting on Friedland, Ayati, and Currie’s Visions for Building Smarter Markets Dec 19, 2020

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Abaxx co-founder Thom McMahon weighs in on the company’s activities to actually design and build the fully tokenized commodity trading system envisioned by Robert Friedland, Maryam Ayati and Jeffrey Currie in our first three episodes. Thom also explains why a physical delivery LNG contract is essential to the green energy revolution, and how Abaxx Exchange is designing that contract right now to establish Singapore as the global benchmark market for LNG price discovery.

Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 3 | Jeff Currie on New Technologies and Finding a Price for Carbon Dec 12, 2020

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Goldman Sachs commodities chief Jeff Currie weighs in on the next commodity cycle, the return of inflation, and why it’s essential for the marketplace to figure out how to put a price on carbon in order to enable the realization of ESG objectives. Jeff goes on to describe tokenization of commodity futures warehouse receipts as the best use case he’s heard for distributed ledger (aka “Blockchain Technology”).

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