The New Fund Order
The New Fund Order
JB Beckett
Deep from inside the City's shadows... author, speaker, NED and ex investment gatekeeper Jon 'JB' Beckett explores the Industry's taboo and hot topics. Dear Citizens of the People's Republic of Podcast, welcome! The New Fund Order is here; from existential risk to the human condition, a contrarian exploration of the Darkside, the Frontier and the Fringe of; Asset Management, Finance, Fintech, Mutual Funds and Macro. Bringing you news, views and interviews. Like a philosophy-economics mash up with science fiction, B-movies, Kung Fu films, cold war spy films, to Spaghetti Westerns... all delivered from the left-field with an Orwellian chill.. #newfundorder ALL VIEWS ARE INDEPENDENT. PLEASE check out my book website: https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/7337318-newfundorder-2-0 and Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClzN8gpccuVtdfW47TM_pPQ Season 2 ‘Fight Club’ is here ...
Path to Cop - Finance - Global Ethical Finance Initiative - Natalie Jackson and Nordea
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Path to COP (26) Podcast by Nordea Asset Management and in association with the Global Ethical Finance Initiative. Produced and Hosted by New Fund Order. Episode 1 - Finance agenda: "Mobilising Public and Private Finance Flows at Scale for Mitigation and Adaptation". Join me, JB Beckett, your host and guests Natalie from GEFI and Harry from Nordea for the first Path to COP podcast, covering; 1) The Race to Net Zero: When it comes to Net Zero targets, are we ...
Jun 15, 2023
45 min
Path to Cop - Gender - Global Ethical Finance Initiative - Bev Shah of City Hive and Nordea
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Path to COP (26) Podcast by Nordea Asset Management and in association with the Global Ethical Finance Initiative. Produced and Hosted by New Fund Order. Episode 2 - Gender agenda: "Full and Meaningful Participation of Women and Girls in Climate Change". The UNFCC had already specifically noted how climate change was impacting women globally, more than men, whilst at the same time the tone within our own industry… with respect to the social agenda, worker ine...
Jun 15, 2023
42 min
Path to Cop - Roundup - Global Ethical Finance Initiative - Sarah Wilson and Nordea
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to The Path to COP (26) Podcast by Nordea Asset Management and in association with the Global Ethical Finance Initiative. Produced and Hosted by New Fund Order. Episode 3 - COP Round-up: Was anything achieved, was there progress or more gradualism? What effect and impact will decisions taken have on Society and Finance? What does it mean for investors? What does COP mean for engagement, stewardship, diversity, broader ESG and climate goals? Did COP aid a 'just tran...
Jun 15, 2023
58 min
Fight Club Round 1 - Active versus Passive Investing
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Fight Club! For Season Two of the NFO podcast, step beneath the surface to debate the difficult issues facing asset management. Time to take this underground! Each round is a panel debate of two teams, one captain per team plus 2 team members. Active versus Passive 🥊 💥 Round 1 Active captain Simon Evan-Cook will be joined by Lucy Walker, CFA and Ben Conway 💥 Passive captain Mark Northway will be joined by Robin Powell and Larry Swedroe 👊 Equal time...
May 16, 2022
1 hr 22 min
Season Finale: Into the Mind with Nuala Walsh
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Darkside of Fund Management and Research... the New Fund Order. Episode 20: Into the Mind The sky arcs obsidian, as thunderous clouds roll in and heavy rain pours down. We are forced to open an iron door and take refuge inside an old hospital only to be greeted by the wails of its patients within. What dark horrors await us in this place? Step into our asylum of cognitive discourse to explore the dark corners of the mind of the fund selector. Everything from...
Oct 17, 2021
38 min
Talk About Black: Diversity in Selection (with Justin Onuekwusi)
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the New Fund Order. An Orwellian journey into the Darkside, the Frontier and the Fringe of Finance. In our ever ending journey to tackle the tough topics in our industry, I talk to Justin Onuekwusi about his ‘I am’ campaign and ‘Talk about Black’. We discuss why there is a lack of diversity, why there is not enough black representation in finance and asset management… and indeed fund selection. What are the industry biases, what are the structural barriers to pr...
Oct 3, 2021
34 min
The Sironi Files: The Anthropology of Selection & Financial Market Transparency
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the New Fund Order. An Orwellian journey into the Darkside, the Frontier and the Fringe of Finance. We open The Sironi Files with Fintech supreme Paolo Sironi on his seminal work on Financial Market Transparency (‘FMT’), anthropology, gamification and data platforms and how these are changing asset management and fund selection from the outside in, and inside-out. In this intrigue rich episode is it mission impossible or mystery to be solved? Why is uncertainty ...
Sep 19, 2021
28 min
Crowd Chaser: When Fund Selection Faced a Pandemic
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the New Fund Order. An Orwellian journey into the Darkside, the Frontier and the Fringe of Finance. We speak with SharingAlpha.com co-founder Oren Kaplan on creating his innovative global platform, the wisdom of the crowd, building community and insights against the backdrop of a global pandemic. In a more distanced world, is SharingAlpha.com the real ‘new normal’? "SharingAlpha went live in April 2016 and has already become the world's largest community of profe...
Sep 5, 2021
24 min
The Big W: Bets, Lies and Variable Tips (Debate)
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the New Fund Order. An Orwellian journey into the Darkside, the Frontier and the Fringe of Finance. Our first New Fund Order debate, about 'that manager'... We debate the ins and outs, the ups and downs of that 'Oracle of Oxford' and the whole sad and sorry affair which rocked fund allocators, distributors and the divinity of the star manager. Helping guide us through the detail are the two prominent writers David Ricketts of 'When the Fund Stops' and Owen Walke...
Aug 22, 2021
1 hr 7 min
The Nordisk Connection: The Scandi-fication of Finance
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the New Fund Order. An Orwellian journey into the Darkside, the Frontier and the Fringe of Finance. Ny fondordre Episode #15 The water ripples as the air chirps to the sound of bicycles. It could only be Copenhagen! I sit down and discuss what makes fund selection different in Denmark and the wider Scandi-fication of wealth management across Europe and beyond. We tackle ESG, diversity, quantification and the introduction of ETF products. A fascinating and insight...
Aug 8, 2021
30 min
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