Fiduciary Investors Series

About Fiduciary Investors Series

The COVID-19 global health and economic crisis has highlighted the need for leadership and capital to be urgently targeted towards the vulnerabilities in the global economy. Through conversations with academics and asset owners, the Fiduciary Investors Podcast Series is a forward looking examination of the changing dynamics in the global economy, what a sustainable recovery looks like and how investors are positioning their portfolios. The much-loved events, the Fiduciary Investors Symposiums, act as an advocate for fiduciary capitalism and the power of asset owners to change the nature of the investment industry, including addressing principal/agent and fee problems, stabilising financial markets, and directing capital for the betterment of society and the environment. Like the event series, the podcast series, tackles the challenges long-term investors face in an environment of disruption, and challenges investors to look differently at how they make decisions and allocate capital.

Publisher

Amanda White

Category

business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 May 2020

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

44 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Myron Scholes on the real promise of the total portfolio approach

   The real promise of the total portfolio approach is not simply greater flexibility in choosing investments, but the ability to dynamically manage risk as market conditions change. Nobel Prize-winning economist Myron Scholes, the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at Stanford Graduate School of Business, argued that institutional investors focus too heavily on selectivity and average returns, when managing downside risk can be critical to improving compound returns over time. “Every period matters. There’s no long run. The long run is made of a sequence of short runs,” Scholes said, arguing that investors should dynamically adjust their risk budgets and preserve capacity to deploy capital when markets are under stress. In this live recording from the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Stanford University in September 2026, Scholes explores risk, drawdowns and why dynamic risk management should sit at the heart of the total portfolio approach.

2. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Inside Anthropic: Jack Clark on AI, Power, and the Pentagon

   Artificial intelligence is entering a new era, moving beyond systems that simply answer questions to agents capable of carrying out complex tasks and taking actions over extended periods. Jack Clark, co-founder and head of public benefit at Anthropic, said the shift from chat to agents brings enormous opportunities, from greater economic efficiency to accelerating scientific discovery, but also creates a new generation of safety and governance challenges. Clark said AI could dramatically multiply the effectiveness of scientists, describing its potential to accelerate scientific progress as “maybe the biggest deal of the century”. In this live recording from the Fiduciary Investors Symposium at Stanford University in September 2026, Clark explores the rapid evolution of AI, agentic systems, safety and alignment, and what could come next as the technology becomes increasingly capable.

3. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Ross Levine on the quiet accumulation of risk in the US financial system

   The risks building in the US financial system may not come from a single dramatic policy decision, but from the quiet accumulation of individually defensible changes that together encourage excessive risk-taking. (https://www.top1000funds.com/podcasts/michael-pettis-on-chinas-overinvestment-paradox-and-the-japan-style-reckoning-still-to-come/) That was the warning from Stanford University economist Ross Levine, who said a series of regulatory and supervisory changes in the US are expanding explicit and implicit government backstops while weakening the mechanisms designed to constrain risk-taking. In this live recording from the Fiduciary Investors Symposium, hosted by Top1000funds.com at Stanford University in September 2026, Levine examines the “quiet accumulation” of risk across the US financial system and what it could mean for institutional investors.

Who has been a guest on Fiduciary Investors Series

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• Stephen Kotkin
• Danny Quah
• Nick Chamie
• Colin le Duc
• Julia Newbould

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1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 30 / 100

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Quality

60

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0

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