Dr. Dirk Willer is a Managing Director and Global Head of Macro and Asset Allocation at Citi Research in New York. Prior to this role, Dirk headed global Emerging Market Strategy, where he and his teams were consistently ranked in the top three in the institutional investor surveys. Previously, Dirk worked at Omega Advisors and RHG Capital as a global macro strategist and portfolio manager, and at Swiss Bank as a fixed income strategist for Russia and Eastern Europe. Dirk holds a PhD and MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics. Dirk is also the author of an influential book on how to trade emerging market fixed income, published by Wiley in 2020, and of a book on global macro trading, released in 2026. In this podcast, we discuss:

1. Unlearning the QE Reflex
2. Trading "Close to the Fire"
3. The Nearest Neighbour Regime Framework
4. PMIs vs. "Noisy" Indicators
5. Yield Curve Inversions and Fed Lags
6. The "GMO" Bubble Methodology
7. Credit as the Equity Canary
8. The Four-Indicator Dollar Model
9. Fading Geopolitical Shocks
10. The Role of Human Judgment in AI

Dylan is the founder of arcMacro, where he analyses macro and private markets. His previous roles include serving as an economist at Goldman Sachs and Rosenberg Research, and later as a private market consultant at McKinsey. In this podcast, we discuss:

1. The Hormuz Supply Shock
2. Stagflation as the New Base Case
3. AI Capex vs. Energy Headwinds
4. A Hawkish Fed Outlook
5. Canada's Productivity Pivot
6. The USMCA Trade Cloud
7. Private Market Maturation
8. Normalising Credit Defaults
9. AI's Private Market Future

Shawn Edwards is Bloomberg's Chief Technology Officer. Based in New York, he oversees the development of Bloomberg's global technology strategy. In 2017, Shawn was named in the top ten of the Institutional Investor Tech 40 – an annual ranking of financial industry technology leaders. Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2003, Shawn worked for Bear Stearns & Co., where he was a managing director in the company's fixed income trading group. He has also held positions at Mentor Graphics and IBM. In this podcast, we discuss:

1. Engineering Trust through "Entailment"
2. Automating "The Bloomberg Way"
3. ASKB: Reimagining the Terminal
4. Workflow-Specific AI Expansion
5. Actionable Alternative Data
6. Empowering Non-Programmers
7. Accelerating Data Onboarding
8. Competition vs. Domain Knowledge
9. A Cautious View on AGI