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The Wall Street Skinny
Every week, Kristen and Jen (best friends since the second grade) have smart, funny. and honest conversations about investing, tech, and business. From Princeton and Brown to Morgan Stanley, as former investment bankers turned entrepreneurs and podcasters, Kristen and Jen take the most complex deals, market moves, and tech breakthroughs and distill them into stories you care about. From conversations with the biggest names in investing to deep dives people can’t stop sharing --- not to mention…
Episodes
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85. The Skinny on Citadel White Label Sales & Trading
Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, we discuss Citadel's potential white label offering of their Equities trading operations to investment banks --- discussed…
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84. How to Rob a Bank: Inside Financial Fraud Red Teams
Send us Fan Mail Financial fraud is something we hear about ALL the time. It feels like there's a new headline about losses stemming from a hack at a financial…
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83. The Skinny on the Paramount Deal Structure and Congressional Trading
Send us Fan Mail This week on The Skinny On ("TSO") we dive into the Paramount deal structure and discuss insane returns by congress, as well as a new law that…
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82. The Finance of HBO's "Succession" Season 3 Part 2!!
Send us Fan Mail Our long-awaited third season recap of the hit show "Succession" is HERE! Even if you watched the show and loved it, you might not have…
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81. Why Banks Are Hiring More English Majors
Send us Fan Mail Happy 4th of July! We wanted to discuss an article from Fortune Magazine that's been making the rounds, where the COO of Blackrock said "We…
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80. The Finance of HBO's "Succession" Season 3 Part 1
Send us Fan Mail Our long-awaited third season recap of the hit show "Succession" is HERE! Even if you watched the show and loved it, you might not have…
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79. What’s the Max Age to Break into Wall Street and Tech | TWSS x IGLE
Send us Fan Mail We get asked every day by listeners of ALL ages, "am I too old to start a career in finance??" When you ostensibly need to have internships on…
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78. What It Takes to Become the Most Powerful Woman on Wall Street Feat. Zoe Cruz, Founder and CEO of Menai Financial Group.
Send us Fan Mail Today we are speaking with Zoe Cruz, who was the Head of the Fixed Income Division at Morgan Stanley when Jen started her career as a summer…
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77. Private Equity Secondaries 101 Feat Justin Resnick of Evercore
Send us Fan Mail Today we sit down with Justin Resnick, a Managing Director at Evercore to discuss private equity secondaries --- one of the fastest growing…
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76. The Skinny on the Paramount Deal Drama, Inflation Data, and Turning 40!
Send us Fan Mail "The Skinny On..." the Paramount deal that is now OFF, inflation data, turning 40, and more! Shop our Self Paced Courses: Investment Banking &…
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75. Bankers vs. Lawyers
Send us Fan Mail Our long awaited Bankers vs. Lawyers podcast episode! Wondering about the differences and similarities between traditionally "good" jobs like…
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74. The Skinny on ECB Cutting Rates, GameStop Continued and Being “Too Thin”
Send us Fan Mail The Skinny on ECB Cutting Rates, GameStop Continued and Being "Too Thin" Shop our Self Paced Courses: Investment Banking & Private Equity…
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73. What It Takes to Be a Credit Investor Feat. Ty Wallach, CIO of Credit at Atlas Merchant Capital
Send us Fan Mail In the second of our three SALT iConnections interview series, we sat down with Ty Wallach, a living legend in the credit investing world. Ty…
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72. The Skinny On T+1 Settlement Change, Citi's Fat Finger Trade, Hedge Fund Fund Raising, and Private Credit
Send us Fan Mail The Skinny On T+1 Settlement Changes, Citi's Fat Finger Trade, Hedge Fund fundraising woes, and Private Credit! Shop our Self Paced Courses…
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71. From Wall Street to the White House and Back Feat. Anthony Scaramucci
Send us Fan Mail Live from SALT iConnections in NYC, we are joined by Anthony Scaramucci, a financial, political, and pop culture icon here in America. Anthony…
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70. The Skinny On NVDA's Stock Split, SALT iConnections Recap, and Gold Decoupling
Send us Fan Mail We're BACK from a whirlwind 48 hours in NYC, fully rested and ready to give you the skinny on the latest in global markets. First, a quick…
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69. How Hedge Funds Raise Money Feat. Ron Biscardi, CEO of iConnections
Send us Fan Mail We talk about Hedge Fund, Private Equity, and other "Alternative" Investment Funds all the time. But we don't always stop to ask, "how do they…
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68. The Skinny On AI and the GPT-4o Update, Meme Stocks Return, and Golf & Finance
Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we share our thoughts on the new Ghat-GPT4o update in light of Apple's controversial commercial, our thoughts on the…
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67. Finance, Philosophy, and the Yen Carry Trade feat. John Normand
Send us Fan Mail We often talk about institutional investors as the allocators of capital to the public and private markets. They are huge, active participants…
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66. The Skinny on "FTX Found the Money"...plus Boston vs NYC, Middle School, and Phobias
Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is a bit lighter. We get into what it means that "FTX found the money" as well as catch up about some super random stuff…
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65. Personal Finance 101: How to Become Wealthy feat. Katy Song
Send us Fan Mail Many assume that those who are skilled in high finance are also experts in personal finance and managing their own money. But NOTHING could be…
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64. The Skinny on Bank Balance Sheets and the Paramount Deal
Send us Fan Mail In this week's edition of "The Skinny On", we get into an update on the Fed, Jen rants about bank balance sheet reqs, and Kristen gives you…
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63. Credit Strategy 101 feat. Dominique Toublan
Send us Fan Mail Credit Strategy: how does it work, who are the players, and what are the career opportunities? Today we are discussing the structure of the…
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62. The Skinny on Kim Kardashian's PE Firm, "Risk Off”, & TikTok Ban
Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we give you the Skinny on PCE (Personal consumption expenditures), we define "Risk Off", we chat about the news that Kim…
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61. Private Equity Associate Tell-All: How to Start Your Career in PE
Send us Fan Mail So many finance hopefuls dream of a career in Private Equity. But what do you actually DO during your internship, starting out as a full-time…
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60. The Skinny on Jane Street Raising Debt & RIFs
Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode we talk about the market's response to geopolitical risks, Jane Street's atypical transparency around Q1 earnings ahead…
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59. Real Estate Investment Banking 101
Send us Fan Mail Want to understand commercial real estate investing? Real estate banking? What about starting your own investment bank? Or succeeding in the…
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58. The Skinny on CPI & Earnings
Send us Fan Mail In our latest edition of our new weekly markets breakdown, we cover yesterday’s CPI release and its impact on the interest rates, credit, and…
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57. What You Must Know About Commodities (And More!) Feat. CNBC's Guy Adami
Send us Fan Mail Guy Adami is an original member of CNBC's Fast Money. Guy began his career at Drexel Burnham Lambert as a commodity trader on their precious…
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56. The Skinny on Non-Farm Payrolls and Unwritten Rules
Send us Fan Mail We're mixing it up with new weekly episodes where we give you the skinny on what's happening in the markets and big deals in the news, and…
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55. Women on Wall Street: Is There a Problem with Female Managers?
Send us Fan Mail The Wall Street Journal recently published an article titled "Women Aren't Getting the Big Jobs at Goldman Sachs, and They're Heading for the…
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54. Global Macro Trading 101 Feat. Wall Street's First Blind Trader
Send us Fan Mail Ever wondered what global macro trading looks like at the world's most elite hedge funds like Citadel, Balyasny, and Bluecrest? You might…
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53. Intro to Crypto (Part II)
Send us Fan Mail Today is part II of our "intro to crypto" series. We're back with Chris Newhouse to discuss breaking into careers in the digital currency…
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52. Intro to Crypto (Part I): What's going on in the Crypto Markets?
Send us Fan Mail Bitcoin is at an all-time high. New digital currency ETFs are coming to the market, broadening access to and increasing the legitimacy of an…
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51. Private Wealth Management "PWM" 101 (for the Ultra Rich) Feat. Tony Abbiati
Send us Fan Mail Managing the wealth of the world's richest clientele is an exciting, prestigious, high stakes business. We sat down with Tony Abbiati, CEO of…
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50. The Finance of HBO's Succession Season 2
Send us Fan Mail Back by popular demand!! We continue a listener favorite: the finance of "Succession", the hit HBO series. We explore the hot topics of…
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49. Project Finance 101 & Infrastructure Investing Basics
Send us Fan Mail What is Project Finance? In this episode, we are joined again by Rahul Culas, Julie Kim, and David Albert to get into the basics of this…
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48. Healthcare Private Equity Investing
Send us Fan Mail Today as a followup to last week's episode where we sat down with two doctors, we are chatting with two investors in the Healthcare Private…
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47. Doctors vs. Bankers
Send us Fan Mail Many ambitious young people (Kristen included) consider pursuing a number of prestigious careers outside the financial services industry, and…
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46. Wall Street Compensation 101: How to Get PAID
Send us Fan Mail Let's talk about MONEY. Maybe you're hoping to land a high paying job on Wall Street . Maybe you're hoping to maximize your earnings potential…
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45. Private Equity 101: Lower Middle Market PE Deep Dive, Feat AJ Tracey
Send us Fan Mail Today we take a deep dive into Private Equity --- specifically, Lower Middle Market PE. We sit down with experienced investor A.J. Tracey and…
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44. Search Funds 101: The Best Kept Secret in Private Equity
Send us Fan Mail Ever heard of a Private Equity "search fund" aka entrepreneurship through acquisition? Well, we hadn't either... until this episode! Search…
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43. Hedge Fund Investing: Point / Counterpoint
Send us Fan Mail The news --- and the finmeme space --- has been abuzz with headlines talking about hedge fund returns (or lack thereof) in 2023. In a year…
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42. Networking 101
Send us Fan Mail Whether you are looking to break into your first job, trying to move up through the ranks or pivot within your current firm, or you are…
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41. Caesars Part III: Interview with Sujeet Indap, Author of Caesars Palace Coup
Send us Fan Mail Wrapping up our 3-part Caesars Palace Coup series by interviewing one of the authors, Financial Times writer Sujeet Indap. Sujeet explains…
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40. Distressed Debt and Restructuring 101: Caesars Palace Coup (Part II)
Send us Fan Mail In Part II of this three-part case study of Sujeet Indap and Max Frumes' book Caesars Palace Coup, we pick up in 2008 after Apollo and TPG's…
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39. LBO Deep Dive: Caesars Palace Coup, Part I
Send us Fan Mail Private equity is one of the most coveted job opportunities on the buyside in the current market environment. In this episode, we do a deep…
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38. Predicting the "Future" (Fed Funds Futures 101)
Send us Fan Mail Interest rates drive everything in the markets, and expectations of rate cuts or hikes by the Fed can move the markets and make or break…
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37. Private Equity and Hedge Fund Recruiting Feat. GoBuyside (Part 2)
Send us Fan Mail Part II of our conversation with Cameron Boland and Kate Kourlis from executive recruiting firm GoBuyside. Our focus shifts to off-cycle…
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36. Wall Street Holiday Party Horror Stories
Send us Fan Mail Happy holidays from The Wall Street Skinny! We are giving your brain a bit of a break this week. We share some fun stories of holiday parties…
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35. SPACs 101: AppleTV’s “WeCrashed” Explained
Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we use WeWork as a case study to break down SPACs, for a deeper dive into the IPO process, the bankruptcy and we explore…
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34. Jane Street, FTX, and Crypto: Michael Lewis’ “Going Infinite” Explained
Send us Fan Mail A job in Private Equity isn't the highest paying or even the hardest to get... it's actually a job at high frequency trading firms like Jane…
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33. The Ozempic Trade: "Health" and Body Image on Wall Street Feat. Lindsey Lusson
Send us Fan Mail Ozempic and similar drugs are dominating the conversation about culture, health, and financial markets right now. But what does it mean for…
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32. Private Equity Recruiting 101 Feat. GoBuyside (Part 1)
Send us Fan Mail Want to get an elite job on the buy side? A recruiter --- otherwise known as a headhunter --- plays a significant role in the recruiting…
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31. Equity Capital Markets 101: The IPO
Send us Fan Mail Whether you are an investment banker working with the hottest new tech start up to take it public, working in private equity and 'exiting' an…
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30. Consulting 101: Feat. Jane Licurse
Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we break down everything you've ever wanted to know about consulting ranging from a day in the life, how do projects get…
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29. Q&A! The WACC, Interview Tips, Circularity in Models, and Essential Skills for Traders
Send us Fan Mail Another listener favorite Q&A episode, where Kristen and Jen tackle real questions submitted by our listeners. We use these questions as…
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28. NYC Survival Guide: The Economics of Working on Wall Street
Send us Fan Mail So you've finally landed your first job on Wall Street at an investment bank, consulting firm, hedge fund, private equity fund, asset manager…
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27. Venture Capital 101
Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we sit down with Camilo Acosta, founder & general partner of Perceptive Ventures, an early stage venture firm, and walk…
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26. Valuation 101: How Do You Value a Company?
Send us Fan Mail What is a company "worth"? We are tackling this question in a multi-part series, starting with valuation 101. We walk through the three…