Trinity SMF Podcast

🎙 Trinity SMF Podcast | Jim Chanos | Inside the Golden Age of FraudMatthew Barnes sits down with Jim Chanos - founder of Kynikos Associates, the short seller who called Enron, and lecturer on the history of financial fraud at Yale.Jim's career began in 1980, when Wall Street was so far out of favour that he earned more in three months at a steel mill than in his first full year in finance. The first major company he analysed, Baldwin-United, became the largest bankruptcy in US history. Two decades later he read Enron's footnotes and recognised the same accounting. In between he was fired by Deutsche Bank over a front-page story about short sellers, and turned that firing into Kynikos Associates.In this conversation, he reflects on how bubbles repeat across cycles, what Baldwin-United and Enron had in common, why he calls this the golden age of fraud, and what the AI capital expenditure boom has in common with the telecom build-out.For podcast enquiries please contact [email protected]🔔 Subscribe for new conversations with leaders in business, finance, and beyond.🎧 Also available on Youtube and Apple Podcasts.🔗 Trinity SMF Podcast Youtube | https://www.youtube.com/@trinitystudentmanagedfund7865🔗 Trinity SMF Linkedin | https://www.linkedin.com/company/trinity-smf/🔗 Trinity SMF Website | https://trinitysmf.com/🔗 Host's Linkedin | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewcmbarnes/Trinity Student Managed Fund is Europe's oldest and largest student-run investment fund, with more than €800,000 AUM.#jimchanos #enron #shortselling #fraud #AIbubble #TrinitySMF #trinitycollegedublin #investing #finance #podcast

🎙 Trinity SMF Podcast | Julian Coulter | Navigating Emerging MarketsMatthew Barnes sits down with Julian Coulter - Global Managing Director at Google, leading the Food, Beverages, and Restaurants vertical, with over two decades operating across emerging markets from Poland and Russia to South Africa, Peru, and Mexico.Julian's career took him from a graduate sales role at Bass Brewers in the English Midlands to regional director for Britvic International by age 26, through leadership roles at SAB Miller across South Africa and Latin America, and into his current role at Google. Along the way he built brand strategy under a former Coca-Cola global CMO, launched and lost a premium soft drink in Poland, and helped shape how one of the world's largest companies thinks about marketing in the developing world.In this conversation, he reflects on why he chose developing markets over the well-trodden banking and consulting path, what a failed product launch in 1990s Poland taught him about strategy, how head office and the operators on the ground negotiate tension, and where AI fits into closing - or widening - the gap between developed and emerging economies.For podcast enquiries please contact [email protected]🔔 Subscribe for new conversations with leaders in business, finance, and beyond.🎧 Also available on Youtube and Apple Podcasts.

Matthew Barnes sits down with Bethany McLean - contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and co-author of The Smartest Guys in the Room, the definitive account of Enron's collapse.In 2001, Bethany was the first journalist to publicly question Enron's valuation, publishing "Is Enron Overpriced?" in Fortune months before the company's implosion became one of the most notorious corporate bankruptcies in American history. She went on to cover the 2008 financial crisis, co-authoring the book "All the Devils Are Here" with Joe Nocera. In this conversation, Bethany reflects on the Enron story, the blurry line between visionary and fraudster, and the 2008 financial crisis. For podcast enquiries please contact [email protected]🔔 Subscribe for new conversations with leaders in business, finance, and beyond.🎧 Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.🔗 Trinity SMF Podcast Spotify | https://open.spotify.com/show/2KCU3PAzG5vzeg6nKshDvk?si=3c1fd802e0064a2a🔗 Trinity SMF Linkedin | https://www.linkedin.com/company/trinity-smf/🔗 Trinity SMF Website | https://trinitysmf.com/🔗 Host's Linkedin | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewcmbarnes/Trinity Student Managed Fund is Europe's oldest and largest student-run investment fund, with more than €800,000 AUM.#bethanymclean #2008 #financialcrisis #enron #TrinitySMF

🎙 Trinity SMF Podcast | Brendan McDonagh | Lessons from 3 Decades in Global BankingMatthew Barnes sits down with Brendan McDonagh - former Chief Executive of HSBC North America, former Deputy Chairman of AIB, and Chairman of PEAL Capital.Brendan's career has spanned more than than thirty years in global banking, holding senior roles in seven countries, Brendan led HSBC out of the 2008 financial crisis. n this conversation, he reflects on what it takes to lead through a crisis of that scale, the decisions made under pressure when the system was breaking, and the lessons that still hold for finance and leadership today.Brendan also discusses his time at Trinity, his role on the advisory board of Trinity Business School, and his advice for students still at the university.For podcast enquiries please contact [email protected]🔔 Subscribe for new conversations with leaders in business, finance, and beyond.🎧 Also available on Youtube and Apple Podcasts.🔗 Trinity SMF Podcast - Apple Podcasts⁠🔗 Trinity SMF Podcast - Youtube🔗 Trinity SMF Podcast - Apple Podcasts⁠🔗 ⁠Trinity SMF - Linkedin⁠🔗 ⁠Host's Linkedin⁠Trinity Student Managed Fund is Europe's oldest and largest student-run investment fund, with over €800,000 AUM.#TrinitySMF #brendanmcdonagh #hsbc #banking #finance #2008financialcrisis #investmentbanking #leadership #podcast #trinitycollegedublin

🎙 Tune in to the Trinity SMF podcast with Emanuele Roncalli di Montorio-Veronese as he speaks with Trotter's Chiara BertarelliChiara is the founder of Trotter. Chiara, a recent Harvard graduate, was inspired to create a travel social media platform while exploring South America with her friends in 2023. She wanted a centralized platform to help people search, plan, book, and share their travel adventures, while also connecting them with like-minded individuals. Since launching her app, she's expanded her vision and created a luxury lifestyle platform with a 24/7 concierge service, an itinerary planner, a social