Ben Carlson

Talk Your Book: The Next Catalyst for Crypto Assets

On today’s show, we are joined by Chris Kuiper, Director of Research, and Matt Horne, Head of Digital Asset Strategists for Fidelity Digital Assets to discuss narratives surrounding ETH and BTC, use cases around ETH, how advisors can work with Fidelity utilizing digital assets, decreasing volatility in crypto, and much more!

Animal Spirits: Are You Middle Class?

On today’s show we discuss our experience at Future Proof, melt-up possibilities in the stock market, what’s left for ETFs, how many people are actually in the middle class, the death of the minivan, housing prices vs. demographics, cutting the cord, why Twitter is getting worse and much more.

Talk Your Book: Opportunities in Commercial Real Estate Debt

On today’s show, we are joined by Richard Byrne, President of Benefit Street Partners to discuss the chaos within the commercial office space sector, the opportunity for commercial real estate debt, what separates one asset manager from another, how real estate lending works, and much more!

My Career Path

“What do you want to do?” “I want to work in a cool job with cool people.” “OK…doing what exactly?” “um…well…I mean…” This was a conversation that occurred in my senior year of college with the guidance counselor. I knew I wanted to work in finance in some capacity because I liked numbers, but beyond…