Media
19 September 2024, National Public Radio | Marketplace
22 May 2023, Mindscape podcast
7 March 2023, Washington Post
Want to Rein in Russian Oligarchs? Target the Wealth Managers, Study Says.
For more than a year, Western nations have used sanctions to target connected Russian businessmen in the hope they would pressure President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine. From Sardinia to Fiji, authorities seized superyachts and villas tied to the oligarchs. In Washington, the Justice Department formed a special task force, KleptoCapture, to track down the hidden assets of Russia’s blacklisted elite.
23 February 2023, National Public Radio | Marketplace
16 January 2023, New Yorker
The Getty Family’s Trust Issues
Heirs to an iconic fortune sought out a wealth manager who would assuage their progressive consciences. Now their dispute is exposing dynastic secrets.
11 March 2022, National Public Radio | Marketplace
7 March 2022, New Yorker
Turning the Focus on America’s Oligarchs
Could the scrutiny of Putin’s favored billionaires hastened by the war in Ukraine extend to the hidden money that subverts democracy in the United States?
4 March 2022, Inside The Hive/ Vanity Fair podcast
15 April 2022, CNN, Jim Sciutto Interview
6 April 2022, CNN, Don Lemon Tonight Interview
23 March 2022, CNN, Anderson Cooper Interview
3 May 2020, New Yorker
How Greenwich Republicans Learned to Love Trump
To understand the President’s path to the 2020 election, look at what he has provided the country’s executive class.
20 November 2017, Jacobin.com
How the Rich Stay Rich
A peek inside the world of wealth managers, offshore tax havens, and the uber-wealthy.
9 November 2017, WYNC | On The Media
5 November 2017, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Offshore Trove Exposes Trump-Russia Links and Piggy Banks of the Wealthiest 1 Percent
A new leak of confidential records reveals the financial hideaways of iconic brands and power brokers across the political spectrum.
11 August 2017, Inc.
6 Ways to Build Customer Trust, According to a Wealth Management Expert
2017, Inc.
This interview for Thomas Stewart’s and Patricia O’Connell’s column in Inc. focuses on the organizational implications of Capital without Borders, particularly as they pertain to provision of luxury services.
Keywords: luxury service, wealth management, trust
3 January 2017, Who Makes Sense podcast
Who Makes Sense Podcast
24 October 2016, NPR | Hidden Brain podcast
23 May 2016, Suddeutsche Zeitung
Offshore-Paradiese sind unheimliche Orte
Interview with Suddeutsche Zeitung–the newspaper that broke the Panama Papers.
Keywords: Panama Papers, offshore finance, wealth management
5 April 2016, BBC Sounds podcast
BBC
Sounds podcast
April 5, 2016
5 April 2016, National Public Radio | The World
20 December 2015, Politiken
Er du megarig, behøver du ikke at følge loven
Feature article on my research in Denmark’s leading newspaper.
Keywords: wealth management, offshore, professionals, ethnography
28 November 2015, Børsen
Sådan slipper de ultra-rige for skat, kreditorer og dyre skilsmisser
Feature article on my wealth management research in Denmark’s leading business newspaper.
Keywords: wealth management, inequality, ethnography, professions
17 November 2014, New Yorker
Valley Boys
Gender discrimination is the norm in high-tech, both in hiring and promotion. This is despite research—like the kind in Pop Finance—showing that gender-diverse groups outperform male-dominated ones in terms of decision quality and investment returns.
Keywords: gender, diversity premium, employment discrimination
4 February 2013, Wall Street Journal
Fun Fades at Investment Clubs–Wary of Market Uncertainty, Interest Wanes in Get-Togethers; Stocks Are ‘Scary’
How the 2008 global financial crisis not only scared investors around the world but dealt a near-death blow to the investment club movement that thrived on confidence in the 1990s. Quotes my research on investment clubs.
Keywords: investment clubs, investor confidence, 2008 financial crisis
26 June 2011, National Public Radio | Europe
16 April 2008, Thinking Aloud with Laurie Taylor podcast
Thinking Aloud with Laurie Taylor
17 February 2001, Washington Post
Investing Isn’t About Sex
Opinion piece by financial journalist Jane Bryant Quinn, lamenting the condescending way that financial services firms market themselves to women. Quotes my research on investment clubs, later published in Pop Finance.
Keywords: gender, financial services, investment risk
8 January 2001, Newsweek
What Investing Women Want
Finance columnist Jane Bryant Quinn punctures absurd claims about women as “overly cautious” or “girly” investors. Quotes my research on investment clubs, later published in Pop Finance.
Keywords: gender, financial services, investment risk
5 September 1999, New York Times
Mars and Venus Do Better Together
Summary of my diversity premium findings, showing not only that investment groups composed of men and women together make more money than single-sex groups, but why. Reviews research findings later published in Pop Finance.
Keywords: investment clubs, gender, diversity premium, groupthink