Money, Riches & Wealth - The Podcast

MRW - Podcast - Niall O_Malley (guest) - November 9, 2016

Drew and Chris are joined by Niall O’Malley.

Niall O’Malley founded Blue Point Investment Management, LLC, in 2006. As Blue Point’s Portfolio Manager, he leverages a keen understanding of the creative destructive cycle that governs innovation, 12-years of international experience and his understanding of the capital markets to add value for clients.

Niall has often been quoted in the press by the Baltimore Business Journal, Baltimore Sun, Bloomberg, Citybizlist Baltimore, Financial Advisor, Markets Media, Seeking Alpha and The Trade. He has been a radio show guest on VoiceAmerica’s Insightful Investor, and WCBM’s Money, Riches and Wealth. He has been a guest speaker at the Baltimore Business Journal, Baltimore Family Office Group, CFA Society Pittsburgh, CFA Society Stamford, Carey School of Business, Loyola University Financial Management Association, Towson University Investment Group’s International Markets Summit and the Wednesday Club. As an Adjunct Professor, he has taught “Investments and Equity Security Analysis” and “Financial Principles of Financial Management” at Towson University’s College of Business and Economics. He served as President of the CFA Society of Baltimore, and now serves on the Board and the Program Committee. Niall founded the Society’s Baltimore Business Review and serves as Co-Editor.

MRW - Podcast - OPEN SHOW - November 2, 2016

This week, Drew and Chris took the time to answer the pressing questions listeners have on personal finance, investing, the economy and much more! ...

MRW - Podcast - David Stockman (guest) - October 26, 2016

Drew and Tom are joined by David Stockman.

David Stockman is the ultimate Washington insider turned iconoclast. He began his career in Washington as a young man and quickly rose through the ranks of the Republican Party to become the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan. After leaving the White House, Stockman had a 20-year career on Wall Street.

Stockman’s career in Washington began in 1970, when he served as a special assistant to U.S. Representative, John Anderson of Illinois. From 1972 to 1975, he was executive director of the U.S. House of Representatives Republican Conference. Stockman was elected as a Michigan Congressman in 1976 and held the position until his resignation in January 1981.

He then became Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan, serving from 1981 until August 1985. Stockman was the youngest cabinet member in the 20th century.

Although only in his early 30s, Stockman became well known to the public during this time concerning the role of the federal government in American society. After leaving government, Stockman joined Wall Street investment bank Salomon Bros. He later became one of the original partners at New York-based private equity firm, The Blackstone Group. Stockman left Blackstone in 1999 to start his own private equity fund based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Stockman was born in Ft. Hood, Texas. He received his B.A. from Michigan State University and pursued graduate studies at Harvard Divinity School. He lives in Aspen, Colorado, with his wife Jennifer Blei Stockman. They have two daughters, Rachel and Victoria.​

MRW - Podcast - Cathy O_Neil (guest) - October 19, 2016

Drew and Chris are joined by Cathy O’Neil.

Cathy O’Neil is a data scientist and author of the blog mathbabe.org. She earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard and taught at Barnard College before moving to the private sector, where she worked for the hedge fund D. E. Shaw. She then worked as a data scientist at various start-ups, building models that predict people’s purchases and clicks. O’Neil started the Lede Program in Data Journalism at Columbia and is the author of Doing Data Science. She appears weekly on the Slate Money podcast.

MRW - Podcast - Wade Pfau (guest) - October 5, 2016

Drew and Chris are joined by Wade Pfau.

Wade D. Pfau, Ph.D., CFA, is a Professor of Retirement Income in the Ph.D. program for Financial and Retirement Planning at The American College in Bryn Mawr, PA. He also serves as a Principal and Director for McLean Asset Management, helping to build retirement income solutions for clients, and Chief Planning Strategist of software provider inStream Solutions. He holds a doctorate in economics from Princeton University and publishes frequently in a wide variety of academic and practitioner research journals on topics related to retirement income. He hosts the Retirement Researcher website, and is a monthly columnist for Advisor Perspectives, a RetireMentor for MarketWatch, a contributor to Forbes, and an Expert Panelist for the Wall Street Journal. His research has been discussed in outlets including the print editions of The Economist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Kiplinger’s, and Money Magazine. He recently authored his first book, Reverse Mortgages: How to Use Reverse Mortgages to Secure Your Retirement.

MRW - Podcast - Roemer McPhee (guest) - September 28, 2016

Drew and Tom are joined by Roemer McPhee.

Roemer McPhee was born in Washington D.C. and resided there for several years while his father was special legal counsel to President Eisenhower. Always interested in writing and history, at age 17 he entered Princeton University, where he studied history and was able to write to his heart’s content about his favorite subject. In 1979 he saw a few articles in Forbes and Barron’s magazines on investor Robert W. Wilson, and was fascinated by Wilson’s success. Since money and finance were another favorite interest of McPhee’s, he entered Wharton Business School and majored in finance.

McPhee found a job working as a trader for Morgan Stanley, and his career in investing began. Now, he works as a private investor and is very active in the futures market and cash markets. McPhee was surprised one day to find that his mother-in-law knew Wilson, the legendary investor who had inspired McPhee. She set up a private meeting between the two men, which turned into a long-term friendship and they got together several times over the years to talk about money, philanthropy, or to mingle at various cocktail parties. Like Wilson, McPhee believes in giving back, and volunteers some of his time to Amnesty International.

Fascinated with Wilson’s work and life, McPhee wanted to write it down and try to answer the question so many others were asking: how did Wilson make so much money? McPhee combined his love of writing, his interest in gathering historical detail, and his knowledge in finance to craft an autobiography that does just that in Killing the Market: Legendary Investor Robert W. Wilson.

In his free time, McPhee likes to play squash and tennis, and enjoys cycling. He also loves to sail and travel. Aside from his new book on Wilson, McPhee is the author of the book The Boomer's Guide to Story: A Search for Insight in Literature and Film, in which he writes about themes in story that mirror everyday life. McPhee is married and has one son. He lives in New York City.

MRW - Podcast - OPEN SHOW - September 21, 2016

This week, Drew and Tom took the time to answer the pressing questions listeners have on personal finance, investing, the economy and much more! ...

MRW - Podcast - Fred Amrein (guest) - September 14, 2016

Fred Amrein is a nationally recognized expert on the entire college funding process. His personal financial planning knowledge helps families make better college funding decisions. Fred’s unique approach brings together the financial aid process, college saving plans, educational tax strategies and the various financing options to lower the cost of education. In addition, he has an understanding of the importance of the educational outcome that includes knowledge of student loan repayment, consolidation and forgiveness.

He is the author of Financial Aid and Beyond: Secrets to College Affordability. As the book title imply, the college financial decision goes beyond the financial aid process for most families. Fred’s goal is to provide better financial information and improve the financial literacy within the college decision.

Fred also developed EFC PLUS, innovative college financial software that projects the financial outcome of each college based on each family’s financial situation. The EFC PLUS Planner software generates all of the complicated financial numbers for families and organizes it in one place.  As development continues, the EFC PLUS software will provide a solution from saving for college to student loan forgiveness, in one place. It will eliminate the complications and confusion that most student and parent face as they go through this process.

Fred has a MBA in finance and Bachelor degree in both accounting and marketing from Saint Joseph’s University. His is a board member for the National College Advocacy Group (NCAG) and a member of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors.

MRW - Podcast - OPEN SHOW - September 7, 2016

This week, Drew and Chris took the time to answer the pressing questions listeners have on personal finance, investing, the economy and much more! ...

MRW - Podcast - OPEN SHOW - August 31, 2016

This week, Drew and Tom took the time to answer the pressing questions listeners have on personal finance, investing, the economy and much more! ...