Inside the ICE House

Roger Ibbotson, Chairman and CIO of Zebra Capital Management, visits to talk how his research into behavioral finance reveals the stock market has hot and cold securities. He believes that identifying those cool stocks will provides better returns over the long-term. His firm has partnered with the NYSE to create the NYSE Zebra Edge Index to employ his strategy and help people plan a financial future to not outlive their money.

Vince Birley, CEO of Vident Financial, cofounded Vident to implement his Principled Reasoning Investment Philosophy. He has put that theory to work developing rules-based smart indexes to create an investment method to account for a company’s values in its valuation. To support Hanna’s Homes, the Ethiopian orphanage mentioned in the episode purchase Hanna’s Coffee here: .http://aromaridge.com/coffee-for-a-cause/hannas-blend-coffee/

Jessica Lappin, President of the Alliance for Downtown New York, just released a report hot off the presses envisioning how to revitalize the Stock Exchange District, the historic birthplace of the global capitalism. Since 9/11, when security priorities closed the streets, the crossroads lost some of its soul, but the future is bright if Lappin can build on the support she’s galvanized to revitalize the area. Find out more at: https://www.downtownny.com/stockexchangedistrictstudy

Tim Byun, the Chief Regulatory Officer of OKCOIN, stepped Inside the ICE House to offer his thoughts on where crypto is headed and forecast the regulatory and compliance hurdles arising as the market grows. Today, there are nearly 200 cryptocoin exchanges located around the world and over 4,500 types of cryptocoin. Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are seeing a dramatic hike: over $2 billion in new ICOs, in March 2018, compared to just $19.5 million in March 2017, according to CoinDesk.

LIBOR, the London Interbank Offered Rate, has been called “the world’s most important number.” Tim Bowler, President of ICE Benchmark Administration, is responsible for managing ICE LIBOR, along with other benchmarks including the LMBA Gold & Silver Prices. LIBOR’s rates underpin between $200-$300 trillion of financial products & serve as a gauge of market expectation regarding central bank interest rates. How LIBOR will evolve in the months ahead is a focus of daily headlines, & Tim tells us why.

Smartsheet’s CFO Jennifer Ceran and SVP of Product Gene Farrell, visited the ICE House just minutes after the company started trading to share their IPO journey and what it takes for a company to transition into the public markets. Built on a rock solid culture, Smartsheet has deployed a cloud-based platform that encourages the same type of innovative collaboration for its clients through planning & project management workflows. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Michael Schlein, President and CEO of Accion, visits the ICE House to discussing how fintech, microlending, and seed investment is opening up access to capital and lifting millions across the globe out of poverty.  Accion’s mission for the last fifty years has been to give people the financial tools they need to improve their lives and Michael sees fintech as the pathway to an inclusive financial system of the future. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Dr. Adam Back, the co-founder and CEO of Blockstream and the inventor of hashcash, visits the ICE House to discuss his career and the future of the block chain and financial cryptography. Over the last year, we've seen steep run-ups in the price of cryptocurrencies, often followed by precipitous falls. In spite of this extreme volatility, the crypto markets continues to grow and some estimate it could reach a valuation as high as $1 trillion in 2018.

John Doerr, the legendary Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist, has penned what he calls his “love letter to the future.” It’s called “Measure What Matters” &chronicles how everyone from Bill Gates and Bono to the entrepreneurs of a new pizza startup can accelerate their ambitions through “OKRs”. John weaves the stories from his fabled career into practical mentoring of how we can all achieve the best outcomes at work or in life. For more information on John Doerr or OKRs: www.whatmatters.com

With over 45 years of experience in energy markets and international affairs, Ed Morse joins the ICE House to bring us on a journey of how oil moves markets. The price of crude oil and the fundamentals that drive the global oil market are critically important to businesses and consumers around the world, and Ed explains it in a way that we can all understand.

Mark Penn, author of Microtrends Squared, The New Small Forces Driving the Big Disruptions Today, joins the podcast to breakdown the trends that are driving the modern world. Microtrends and countertrends often make up only one percent of the American public, but create massive social movements capable of changing the commercial, political and social landscapes.

Entrepreneurs have the ability to create a movement that radically changes business models and consumer behavior. In this episode, we invite the NYSE’s Jose Cobos back into the ICE House with Tyler Sloat, CFO of our newest tech listing, Zuora, a company that is driving the subscription economy. Coming off a rigorous road show and a successful IPO, Tyler discusses this once in a lifetime experience, including how to prepare for an IPO and grow as a business, while maintaining a strong corporate culture.

Navigating the evolution from being a private company to a public one is never easy. Tech companies from Silicon Valley have their own set of challenges. A trusted guide through the minefield is Jose Cobos, the NYSE’s West Coast-based Head of Technology Capital Markets. A former Navy SEAL & investment banker, Jose leads the Exchange’s efforts to help innovators raise capital so they can bring their innovative ideas to the world. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-hou

More than one out of every five dollars under professional management in the United States is now being invested according to a sustainable, responsible, and impact investing or SRI strategy. Our guest today, Richard Cea, is leading UBS’s first foray in the U.S. ETF market with a couple ETFs aimed at SRI investors with the launch of InsightShares Patriotic Employers ETF and InsightShares LGBT Employment ETF. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Big Show visited earlier this week to ring the Opening Bell and sat down Inside the ICE House to talk about his efforts to return to the ring in time for WrestleMania 34. Now a Giant with Abs, we talk about the lifestyle changes he made to make sure he will entertain us for years to come. From [19:30-27:30] Show talks about his reaction to Bill Simmon’s documentary ‘Andre the Giant’ by HBO Sports, WWE, JMH Films and Ringer Films. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ic