Never Done by Aladdin

About Never Done by Aladdin

Across the globe, from consumer products to financial markets— technology today, is a living thing that breathes change. Introducing Never Done by Aladdin®—stories about innovation, transformation, and technology—for and by the Aladdin community.

Publisher

Aladdin

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 May 2025

Latest episode

17 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

13 of 15 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Where trusted data meets investment innovation with UPP

   Aaron Bennett, CIO of the University Pension Plan, and James Davidson, Aladdin Client Engagement, BlackRock, explore how trusted data and governance drive investment innovation and AI in this interview.

2. 

   30 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Built to scale: rewiring asset management through technology with TCW - Part 2

   Melissa Stolfi, Global COO at TCW, and Meera Jessa discuss how AI transforms asset management, enhancing insights, scaling operations, and creating new investment opportunities.

3. 

   21 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Reducing time to insight: how AI is reshaping risk management

   Pavan Pemmaraju and Jess Fitzgibbon discuss how AI accelerates time to insight in risk management, reshaping investment decision-making in this interview.

4. 

   22 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Built to scale: rewiring asset management through technology with TCW

   Melissa Stolfi, Global COO at TCW, and Meera Jessa, Head of Aladdin Client Engagement for the Americas at BlackRock, explore how TCW scales asset management by modernizing its technology and embracing a whole portfolio approach.

5. 

   27 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   From cookies to crypto: redefining the future of investing with Coinbase

   Brian Foster of Coinbase and Robert Mitchnick of BlackRock explore how digital assets are institutionalized, reshaping markets through tokenization and partnership.

6. 

   29 Mar 2026

   It takes guts: redefining scale and insight with Alpha FMC

   Laura Kayrouz of Alpha FMC and Timothy Garbien of Aladdin explore how asset managers achieve scale and insight through a total portfolio approach in this interview.

7. 

   10 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Renovating the house: reimagining operating models with Citisoft

   Citisoft Partner Ben Keeler and BlackRock's Cameron Skinner discuss how asset managers are redesigning operating models with data-centric foundations and real-time workflows in this interview.

8. 

   12 Jan 2026

   Trading, Market Structure, and Anacott Steel with Aviva Investors

   Kate Hill and Kamya Somasundaram discuss how technology and regulation reshape market structure and trading in this interview.

9. 

   10 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Humans in the loop; Robots on the team with Microsoft - Part 2

   Adrian Crockett and Syril Smith Garson explore generative AI's impact on user interfaces, copilots, and multimodal AI in this interview.

10. 

    6 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

    Humans in the loop; Robots on the team with Microsoft - Part 1

    Adrian Crockett and Syril Smith Garson explore how generative AI and copilots will humanize user interfaces over the next decade, building essential trust in this interview.

11. 

    16 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT

    The invisibility of the engine

    Chris Scott-Hansen and Woo Fung Kwong explore how a risk-centric approach transforms the advisor-client relationship in wealth management.

12. 

    29 Sept 2025TRANSCRIPT

    The journey to democratize private markets

    Tarek Chouman, Global Head of the Aladdin Client Business, and Mark O’Hare, Vice Chairman for BlackRock, share their journeys in private markets—with eFront and Preqin respectively—and discuss how innovation in data and technology is driving democratization and a whole portfolio approach.

13. 

    29 Jul 2025TRANSCRIPT

    Capturing "change alpha"

    Martin Huber, Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey & Company, and Pia Schaefer, Global Head of Value Engineering, BlackRock Aladdin, discuss the concept of “change alpha”—increasing performance and operating leverage through digital transformations and tech-led change management events.

14. 

    18 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT

    The art of the possible with Sudhir Nair, Global Head of Aladdin

    Sudhir Nair, Global Head of Aladdin, discusses technology's impact on industries with Meera Jessa, focusing on data and AI's transformative role in investment management in this interview.

15. 

    28 May 2025TRANSCRIPT

    Never Done by Aladdin trailer

    This trailer introduces Never Done by Aladdin, a podcast exploring innovation, transformation, and technology within the Aladdin community.

Inside a recent episode

Where trusted data meets investment innovation with UPP

Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] If you look at pretty much partly in the States and partly in places like the UK, public pensions sit in a certain range of the investment sort of scale. But Coming to Canada, I got a bit of education on the trading desk when I first arrived here. And if you look back to the 1980s where Canadian pensions were quite different, they were very government controlled. But in the 90s, there was a real concerted effort to change that. It really enabled them to almost be private sector style investment firms, really owning their own operating decisions. I think that was a big turning point for them. Institutions then built these professional investment teams. […]

Who has been a guest on Never Done by Aladdin

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Aaron Bennett
• James Davidson
• Melissa Stolfi
• Pavan Pemmaraju
• Jess Fitzgibbon

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 12 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

12

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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