- July 29, 2023
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Our Summer Playlist rolls on this week with Arjun Murti. Arjun is the Former Head of Equity Research on the Energy Sector at Goldman Sachs, a Partner at Veriten, and the publisher of “Super-Spiked” on Substack. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely catches up with Arjun midway through the year to get his thoughts on where we are in the energy super vol cycle.
Arjun’s Summer Playlist book picks:
- Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure by Vaclav Smil
- How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going by Vaclav Smil
- Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World by Vaclav Smil
- The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes by Bryan Burrough
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- July 22, 2023
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We kick off our Summer Playlist with Guy Turner, Founder & CEO of Trove Research. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Guy to discuss what’s happening in the voluntary carbon markets and the research that Guy and his team are doing at Trove to help us push past the rhetoric and better understand the reality of how carbon offsets are being used.
Guy’s Summer Playlist book pick: How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn’t by Ian Dunt.
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- July 15, 2023
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On the final installment of our Days of Futures Past series, we welcome Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Host David Greely sits down with Josh to discuss his vision for building smarter markets and why the future of smarter markets begins with launching a futures exchange and clearinghouse in Singapore.
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- July 8, 2023
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This week on our Days of Futures Past series, we welcome Parag Khanna into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Parag is Founder & CEO of Climate Alpha and Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap. He is the author of seven books including Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization and The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict, and Culture in the 21st Century.
SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Parag to explore the influence of Asia and the new Asian values on markets, as well as to discuss the markets we’ll need to build an increasingly connected future.
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- July 1, 2023
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We continue our Days of Futures Past series this week with Andy Home, Senior Metals Columnist at Thomson Reuters. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Andy to explore the history, the crises, and the scandals of the metals markets and the London Metal Exchange (LME). Together, they discuss what lessons we can learn from these histories in order to build better and smarter metals markets for the energy transition.
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- June 24, 2023
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This week on our Days of Futures Past series, we welcome Adi Imsirovic into the studio. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Adi to discuss the history of the Brent crude oil market and speculate on its future.
Adi Imsirovic is Director at Surrey Clean Energy, Former Global Head of Oil Trading at Gazprom Marketing & Trading, and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. He is the author of Trading and Price Discovery for Crude Oils: Growth and Development of International Oil Markets and the editor of Brent Crude Oil: Genesis and Development of the World’s Most Important Oil Benchmark.
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- June 17, 2023
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We continue our Days of Futures Past series this week with two guests from Abaxx Exchange: Dan McElduff and Joe Raia. Dan is President, Head of Strategy & Development and Joe is Chief Commercial Officer at Abaxx Exchange.
SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Dan and Joe to discuss the launch of ClearPort at the NYMEX in 2002, which brought the backing of the clearinghouse to the global OTC markets and today clears transactions from 1,800 listed contracts across multiple asset classes.
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- June 10, 2023
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On this week’s installment of our Days of Futures Past series, we welcome Walt Lukken back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Walt is the President & CEO of the Futures Industry Association (FIA) and Former Acting Chairman & Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Walt to turn back the clocks to Lukken’s time at the CFTC. Throughout the episode, they cover the economic globalization of the early 2000s and its role in the growth of the exchange-traded derivatives market, the lasting influence of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CFMA), Enron’s collapse and its impact on energy market regulation, and Lukken’s advice for future policymakers.
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- June 3, 2023
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We continue our Days of Futures Past series with Michel Marks, the former chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Michel to discuss the creation of the modern energy futures markets.
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- May 27, 2023
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This week on our Days of Futures Past series, we welcome Dave Howson and Jos Schmitt into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Dave Howson is EVP & Global President at Cboe Global Markets and Jos Schmitt is President & CEO of Cboe Canada and SVP & Global Head of Listings for Cboe Global Markets.
SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Dave and Jos to discuss the history of – and lessons from – the Chicago Board Options Exchange as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.
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- May 20, 2023
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In the second installment of our Days of Futures Past series, we welcome John Lothian into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. John is Executive Chairman at John J. Lothian & Company and Founder & Publisher of John Lothian News. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with John to discuss the people and times that created the modern futures exchange in Chicago.
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- May 13, 2023
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This week, we kick off our new series, Days of Futures Past, where we will be talking with the people who built these markets and those who know them best as we explore the lessons we need to make our commodity markets ready for the future.
Our first guest is professor and author Scott Irwin. Scott is the Laurence J. Norton Chair of Agricultural Marketing at the University of Illinois and the author of Back to the Futures: Crashing Dirt Bikes, Chasing Cows, and Unraveling the Mystery of the Commodity Futures Markets.
SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Scott to discuss some of the lessons of the past that we can use to build commodity futures markets that survive, flourish, and remain the beating heart of our economy.
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- May 6, 2023
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In the final episode of our Carbon Frontiers series, we welcome David Antonioli, CEO of Verra, back into the studio. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Antonioli to discuss how the VCM can grow and develop into mature markets and what Verra is doing to help make that happen.
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- April 29, 2023
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We continue our Carbon Frontiers series this week with John Dowd. John is the CEO of GoGreen Investments, a Special Purpose Acquisition Company helping private companies working on solutions to climate change raise funds on Wall Street. Before joining GoGreen, John managed multi-billion dollar portfolios at Fidelity Investments and co-led the Fidelity Energy Research Team.
SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with John to discuss how to successfully and responsibly invest in the energy transition. David and John also explore GoGreen’s investment in mining the battery metals needed to decarbonize our energy system.
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- April 22, 2023
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This week, we present a special episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from last month’s FT Live Commodities Global Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely attended the summit and worked with the Financial Times to record interviews from this gathering of commodity experts, practitioners, and trading houses.
The Financial Times’ Natural Resources Editor, Leslie Hook, provides an introduction to this special release, with guest appearances from Goldman Sachs’ Jeff Currie, RBC Capital Markets’ Helima Croft, Vitol’s Michael Curran, International Emissions Trading Association’s Alasdair Were and Joe Raia of Abaxx Exchange.
Throughout the interviews featured in this special episode, host David Greely sits down with these guests to examine the future of carbon markets and climate action, the under-appreciated risks to our commodity markets ecosystem, balancing critical mineral supply and demand, the need for clear regulatory messaging from governments, and energy security amidst a changing geopolitical landscape.
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- April 15, 2023
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This week on our Carbon Frontiers series, we welcome Rachel Walsh into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Rachel is Carbon Innovation Analyst within Equity Research at BMO Capital Markets. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Rachel to discuss how recent press coverage of voluntary carbon markets is impacting the companies that participate in them, how companies are using the voluntary carbon markets to meet netzero commitments, and the big trends that will help determine where we go from here.
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- April 8, 2023
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We continue exploring Carbon Frontiers this week with Bruce Tozer, Former Head of Environmental Markets at JP Morgan, Carbon Advisor at Abaxx Technologies, and a Non-Executive Director on a number of agribusiness & carbon-related boards. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Bruce for a conversation about the future of our food systems and to discuss what’s happening on the carbon frontier at the intersection of agriculture, climate, the environment, and technology.
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- April 1, 2023
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This week on Carbon Frontiers, we dive in with Yao Huang, Investor and Board Director at Carbon Optimum. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Yao to discuss her perspective on the different financing needs of carbon removal tech versus other tech startups, as well as her company’s experience deploying new technology that uses algae to transform carbon emissions into food, feed, fuel, and fertilizer.
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- March 25, 2023
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We continue our Carbon Frontiers series this week with Leslie Biddle, Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary for Infrastructure at the US Department of Energy and former partner at Serengeti Asset Management. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Leslie to discuss how the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill of 2021 are transforming US energy policy and accelerating the energy transition to a low carbon economy.
Resources mentioned throughout the conversation:
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- Access the DOE Liftoff Reports
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- March 18, 2023
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This week on our Carbon Frontiers series, we welcome Peter Zaman back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Peter is a Partner at HFW in Singapore and has been practicing law in climate finance and the environmental markets since 2004.
One year after Peter took us deep into Article 6, we’re circling back to discuss the progress that’s been made — and the work that still remains. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Peter to tackle the legislation and mechanisms allowing countries to voluntarily cooperate with each other to achieve emission reduction targets set out in their NDCs.
With over 20 years of experience across UK, EU, and Asia, Peter’s rare combination of commodities and climate finance expertise provides a uniquely holistic view of the carbon market ecosystem, crucial to support businesses in their energy transition pathways.
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