The Master Investor Podcast with Wilfred Frost

Stephanie Link, Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager at Hightower Advisors, returns to The Master Investor Podcast to offer a constructive, theme-driven, bullish case for US equities. She explains why she has repeatedly “bought the dip” at moments of crisis – from the Silicon Valley Bank collapse and April 2025 ‘Liberation Day’ lows through to the recent March 2026 Iran war sell-off – arguing that investors who sell at su...

Jeremy Grantham is one of the greatest investors of all time, and is famous for correctly identifying the four major stock market bubbles of his 60 year investment career. He joins Wilf to discuss the key ideas of his new book The Making of a Perma Bear: The Perils of Long-Term Investing in a Short-Term World and what they mean for investors today.

Jeremy and Wilf explore the factors that drove him to admire value stocks; what make...

Wilfred Frost welcomes back Larry McDonald, founder of The Bear Traps Report and bestselling author of “A Colossal Failure of Common Sense” (2009) and “How to Listen When Markets Speak” (2024), for a timely, in-person conversation in London. 

Larry thinks the SP500 is “a screaming sell” and would use the post Iran War ceasefire announcement as an opportunity to sell the index, especially Mag7 tech names, which he continues to view ...

In this episode of The Master Investor Podcast, Wilfred Frost sits down with Peter Boockvar, CIO of OnePoint BFG Wealth Partners and editor of The Boock Report, to dissect what the Iran War means for markets - highlighting the stocks and commodities poised to benefit, and the rallies investors should be cautious of.

Peter shares his view thesis on why inflation was proving far more persistent than markets and central banks were wil...

Rick Wurster, CEO of Charles Schwab – who have $12 TRILLION of client assets across 38 million accounts – joins Wilf to explain how the world’s biggest retail investment platform is trying to “democratise” every corner of finance, what has powered its long-term growth since Chuck Schwab founded the firm in 1971 and more importantly, what’s driving it today and shaping its future.

Rick reflects on the many factors driving their gr...

Dan Morehead returns to The Master Investor Podcast for a timely update on why he still believes Bitcoin – and the broader digital asset space – remains “the most asymmetric trade” of his career, even after a 50% drawdown from the cycle peak in October 2025.

The Pantera Capital founder and former Tiger Management and Goldman Sachs macro trader unpacks the current crypto cycle, and why this correction has been milder than past 75–85...

Former Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein joins Wilfred Frost in London for a candid conversation about risk, resilience and what it really takes to survive multiple crises at the very top of global finance. In this episode of The Master Investor Podcast, Lloyd reflects on his journey from the Brooklyn projects to running Wall Street’s most famous firm, why he was initially rejected by Goldman, and how a scrappy commodi...

Wilf sits down with Tony Yoseloff, executive managing member and CIO of Davidson Kempner, to explore how one of the world’s most enduring alternative asset managers navigates today’s markets. Tony, who manages around 40 billion dollars across opportunistic credit and event-driven strategies, shares his macro framework for the current environment, comparing it to both the 1970s and the early 2000s, and discusses how market concentra...

Scott Bessent, US Treasury Secretary and one of the most successful global macro investors of his generation, joins Wilfred Frost in the Cash Room at the Treasury for a rare, wide-ranging conversation that bridges markets, geopolitics and public service.​ In a gripping real-time interruption, Secretary Bessent is called to the Situation Room by President Trump in the middle of the interview, then returns to detail the administratio...

Ruchir Sharma, Chair of Rockefeller International and Founder and CIO of Breakout Capital, joins The Master Investor Podcast for a sweeping tour of today’s markets, the fading of “American exceptionalism” and what he thinks investors are getting wrong about risk. After 25 years at Morgan Stanley, where he ran emerging markets and served as Chief Global Strategist, Sharma now splits his time between managing money and writing bestse...

In this special bonus episode, author, journalist and Founder and CIO of Breakout Capital, Ruchir Sharma, explores and interprets the market reaction to the US-Israel war with Iran so far. Ruchir, who is also Chairman of Rockefeller International, and former Chief Investment Strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, argues the market reaction is relatively calm and that most of the negative reaction has been de-grossing o...

Greg Peters oversees $1.2 trillion of fixed income investment as the co-CIO of Fixed Income at PGIM, and in this episode of The Master Investor Podcast offers a bond investing masterclass from the basics to the factors driving his current positioning.

Greg breaks down how he analyses long-term government debt – including debt sustainability, growth outlook, central bank independence and the rule of law – and why US Treasuries still...

Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance at NYU Stern School of Business, joins Wilf to reveal that he is more cautious of the equity market today than at any point in his career.

Because of this he has “more cash in my portfolio now than at any time in history”, and says this is a time to harvest profits gained in recent years as opposed to sowing more crops. He has recently sold his position in Nvidia accordingly. 

Aswath shares hi...

Mason Morfit is the co-CEO and CIO of ValueAct Capital and in this incredibly rare extended interview he outlines the unique investment approach that defines ValueAct - “quiet” but highly engaged activism, using long-term partnerships with management teams to transform great but drifting companies like Microsoft in 2013 and Salesforce in 2022.

Mason contrasts the short-term, transactional culture he saw as a young banker during the...

Cameron Dawson, Chief Investment Officer at NewEdge Wealth, joins Wilf to explore whether recent market rotation away from mega-cap growth marks the start of a new “tectonic shift” or just a counter-trend rally.

She compares today’s market to the Nifty 50 era and the dot‑com bubble, and the warning signs those moments provide today, plus what it means for growth versus value over the next several years.

Cameron digs into the wealth...

Sonali Basak joins the Master Investor Podcast to discuss her transition from Bloomberg anchor to Chief Investment Strategist at iCapital, a key player in democratising access to private markets.

The former lead Wall Street correspondent at Bloomberg Television and host of "Bullish," shares insights on iCapital's role in this new age of retail investing, explaining how technology is lowering minimum investment levels without removi...

Rene Haas is CEO of Arm Holdings, the British chip designer at the heart of the global AI race and the previous smartphone revolution. Haas explains to Wilf in plain English where Arm sits in the semiconductor value chain, why its CPU designs power virtually every tech device on the planet, and how its partnerships with giants like Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft and OpenAI are shaping the next decade of computing.

They discuss Arm’s evol...

Helima Croft, one of Wall Street’s most influential energy strategists and Head of Global Commodity Strategy at RBC Capital Markets, unpacks the new geopolitics of energy in a world reshaped by wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, OPEC+ policy shifts, and the increasing but volatile drive toward decarbonisation. 

Helima, who began her career as a CIA analyst, explains how energy is once again a tool of statecraft. She discusses why...

Tom Lee returns to The Master Investor Podcast to lay out his bullish – but bumpy – roadmap for markets in 2026. He is the co-founder and head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, chair of Ethereum treasury company Bitmine Immersion and CIO of Fundstrat Capital which runs the rapidly growing Granny Shots ETF suite (now $4.7bn AUM).

In this episode Tom explains why he still thinks we are early in a 10‑year bull market that bega...