From Technology in Focus to Finance with Blackrock's Tony Kim
Masters in Business
Bloomberg
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🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Barry Ritholtz speaks with Tony Kim, Managing Director and Head of the Fundamental Equities’ Global Technology Team at BlackRock. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2013, Tony held key roles at institutions like Artisan Partners, Neuberger Berman, and Merrill Lynch. He is also a member of the Advisory Board for Columbia Business School’s Digital Future Initiative. On this episode, Barry and Tony discuss the success of passive investing at BlackRock, the general tech investing landscape, and what it takes to build a career that combines a passion for technology with finance.
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| 0:00.0 | Enterprises are busy embracing the technologies that underpin industry 4.0, such as AI |
| 0:06.0 | and automation. But now the fifth industrial revolution is coming. So what is it and what |
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| 0:14.5 | Are you looking for a new podcast about stuff related to money? |
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| 0:22.2 | I'm Matt Levine. |
| 0:23.2 | And I'm Katie Greifeld. |
| 0:24.7 | And we are the hosts of Money Stuff, The Podcast. |
| 0:28.0 | Every Friday, we dive into the top stories about Wall Street, finance, and other stuff. |
| 0:32.9 | We have fun. We get weird. And we want you to join us. |
| 0:36.4 | You can listen to Money Stuff, the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
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| 0:59.7 | This is Masters in Business with Barry Rittoltz on Bloomberg Radio. |
| 1:04.7 | This week on the podcast, another extra special guest. |
| 1:12.1 | Tony Kim is managing director at BlackRock, where he heads the Fundamental Equity Technology group, helping to oversee all of the active technology investments BlackRock makes, in addition to being a |
| 1:18.4 | portfolio manager and running a number of mutual funds and ETFs. He is just a world-class |
| 1:24.1 | technology investor who understands the sector like few other people do. Not only |
| 1:31.4 | has he put up a very impressive track record, his entire approach to the ecosystem of technology, |
| 1:40.0 | covering everything from robotics to AI to software to semiconductors is really quite fascinating. |
| 1:48.0 | If you're at all interested in technology, in AI, in the process of thinking about tech investing, |
| 1:57.8 | then you're going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. With no further ado, |
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