EisnerAmper Podcast
Engaging Alternatives Spotlight
Episodes

Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Equity Risk Management
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
Tuesday Oct 05, 2021
In this episode of Alternative Investments Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Ricardo Cortez, Co-CEO of Broadmark Asset Management, an $1.4 billion San Francisco-based tactical investment manager which manages long/short strategies. He shares with us his background of how he got into investing, his outlook for the hedge fund industry, including the greatest opportunities and challenges, and how he is championing DEI on both a firm-level and throughout the alternative investments industry as a whole.

Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
Outlook for the Fund of Hedge Fund Industry
Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
Tuesday Aug 31, 2021
In this episode of Alternative Investments Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Luis D’Amato, Partner and Portfolio Manager of Aston Capital Management, a Florida-based multi-family office, which also manages a multi-strategy fund of hedge funds.
He shares his background of how he got into investing, his outlook for the fund of hedge fund industry, including the greatest opportunities and challenges in the space, how he is inspiring more Latinos to foray into money management, and how his firm is embracing Diversity Equity & Inclusion.

Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Climate Change
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
In this episode of Engaging Alternatives Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Tom Soto, Founder and Managing Partner of the Diverse Communities Impact Fund (DCIF), a Latino-owned lower middle market impact-focused private equity fund based in Los Angeles. Soto, the two time appointee of former President Bill Clinton and Team Lead for The Executive Office of the President’s Transition Team for the White House Council on Environmental Quality for President Obama, shares with us why he is so passionate about climate change, what inspired him to get into politics, his history of activism inspiring more Latinos to foray into money management and more.

Wednesday May 19, 2021
Distressed Credit and Special Situations Opportunities
Wednesday May 19, 2021
Wednesday May 19, 2021
In this episode of Alternative Investments Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Cindy Chen Delano, Partner at Invictus Global Management, an Austin-based alternative asset management firm that specializes in investing across distressed credit and related special situations opportunities. She shares her non-traditional background going into money management, her outlook on alternative investments with respect to distressed credit and special situations, her experience being a women money manager, what she is doing to encourage more women to go into investing, and how the firm is embracing D&I.

Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund and Opportunistic Credit Investing
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
In this episode of Alternative Investments Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Tracy McHale Stuart, Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Corbin Capital Partners, a New York-based $8 billion alternative investment manager that specializes in multi-strategy hedge fund and opportunistic credit investing. She shares her views on alternative investments, how the firm has incorporated ESG into its principles, her experience being a woman in alternative investments, what the firm is doing to champion D&I and more.

Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
Investing in Diverse and Emerging Managers
Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
Wednesday Mar 03, 2021
In this episode of Alternative Investments Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Kelly Chesney, Co-Founder of Pluscios Management, a Women Business Enterprise and alternatives investment specialist in Evanston, Illinois that invests in a portfolio of diverse and emerging managers. She shares her views on alternative investments, how she got into money management, how her firm has been a pioneer in investing in diverse and emerging managers, her experience being a women in investing, what her firm is doing to champion more women at a young age to foray into money management and more.

Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Private Equity Investing in Media and Entertainment
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
In this episode of Alternative Investments Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Vania Schlogel, Managing Partner and Founder of Atwater Capital, a Los Angeles-based international private equity firm that invests in the media and entertainment space, about her views on private equity, the specific opportunities she sees, why she opened an office in South Korea, her experience being a woman in the industry and more.

Monday Dec 14, 2020
Monday Dec 14, 2020
In this episode of Engaging Alternatives Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Lorenzo Esparza, Founding Principal of Manhattan West Asset Management, a Los Angeles-based alternative investments and wealth management firm, about his views on alternative investments, how he got into money management, what is he doing to champion more young Hispanics to go into investing careers and what he is doing at his firm on a whole to embrace diversity.

Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Raising Capital When Everyone Is Scared: A Conversation with Garry Jensen
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
As we continue to explore the capital raising environment for funds in a virtual context against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, we turn to Garry Jensen, Managing Partner of Jensen Capital Partners, to get his insights. With an international track record of success in investment banking and capital markets, Garry is uniquely positioned to comment on the current environment for managers seeking to connect with allocators.

Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Capital Raising During COVID-19
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
In this episode of Engaging Alternatives Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper speaks with Greg Royce, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Maximus Long Short Equity Management, a low-net exposure industrials and materials focused hedge fund. Royce discusses how his firm experienced robust growth in assets under management amid a challenging year of capital raising for the hedge fund industry and how his firm was successful garnering investor allocations in a virtual world as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.