Alpha Exchange
A podcast by Dean Curnutt
216 Episodes
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Mitchell Garfin, Co-Head of Leveraged Finance, BlackRock
Published: 6/5/2025 -
Sayings on Vol and Risk...A Fresh Five
Published: 6/4/2025 -
Benjamin Bowler, Managing Director and Global Head of Equity Derivatives Research at Bank of America
Published: 5/20/2025 -
Corey Hoffstein, CIO, Newfound Research
Published: 4/30/2025 -
The VIXgilantes Strike Back
Published: 4/28/2025 -
Matt King, Founder, Satori Insights
Published: 4/25/2025 -
Steve Englander, Head of G10 FX and North America Macro Strategy, Standard Chartered
Published: 4/23/2025 -
The Vol Shock Heard 'Round the World
Published: 4/7/2025 -
Campbel Harvey, Professor of Finance, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Published: 3/31/2025 -
GeoVolitics and Gold
Published: 3/24/2025 -
Owen Lamont, Senior Vice President, Acadian Asset Management
Published: 3/11/2025 -
Roxton McNeal, QIS Lead Portfolio Manager, Simplify Asset Management
Published: 3/4/2025 -
GeoVolitics, Implied Correlation and Option Pricing
Published: 3/3/2025 -
Is There a Plumbing Problem in Equity Correlation?
Published: 2/10/2025 -
Eric Balchunas, Senior ETF Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence
Published: 1/30/2025 -
Anniversary Episode: Reflections on the Podcast
Published: 1/23/2025 -
Digital Gold and Actual Gold
Published: 1/11/2025 -
IBIT…the Hottest Option on the Planet
Published: 12/18/2024 -
Ali Samadi, Managing Director, Equity Derivatives, Nomura Securities
Published: 12/17/2024 -
Michael Green, CFA, Portfolio Manager, Chief Strategist, Simplify Asset Management
Published: 12/10/2024
The Alpha Exchange is a podcast series launched by Dean Curnutt to explore topics in financial markets, risk management and capital allocation in the alternatives industry. Our in depth discussions with highly established industry professionals seek to uncover the nuanced and complex interactions between economic, monetary, financial, regulatory and geopolitical sources of risk. We aim to learn from the perspective our guests can bring with respect to the history of financial and business cycles, promoting a better understanding among listeners as to how prior periods provide important context to present day dynamics. The “price of risk” is an important topic. Here we engage experts in their assessment of risk premium levels in the context of uncertainty. Is the level of compensation attractive? Because Central Banks have played so important a role in markets post crisis, our discussions sometimes aim to better understand the evolution of monetary policy and the degree to which the real and financial economy will be impacted. An especially important area of focus is on derivative products and how they interact with risk taking and carry dynamics. Our conversations seek to enlighten listeners, for example, as to the factors that promoted the February melt-down of the VIX complex. We do NOT ask our guests for their political opinions. We seek a better understanding of the market impact of regulatory change, election outcomes and events of geopolitical consequence. Our discussions cover markets from a macro perspective with an assessment of risk and opportunity across asset classes. Within equity markets, we may explore the relative attractiveness of sectors but will NOT discuss single stocks.