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Abaxx Technologies Inc.
SmarterMarkets™ brings you the entrepreneurs, icons, and executives of commodities, capital markets, and technology to rant on the inadequacies of our systems and riff on ideas for how to improve them. Our weekly episodes explore how technology can be leveraged to redesign and improve markets to meet society’s biggest challenges, including climate change and the energy transition.
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Dec 31, 2022 • 57min
Holiday Special Part 2 | Robert Friedland, Founder & Executive Chairman, Ivanhoe Mines and Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO, Abaxx Technologies
We close out the year with Part 2 of our Holiday Special with Robert Friedland, Founder & Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, and Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Robert and Josh to continue looking back at how the SmarterMarkets™ vision has developed over the past two years and discuss where it’s going next.

Dec 24, 2022 • 58min
Holiday Special Part 1 | Robert Friedland, Founder & Executive Chairman, Ivanhoe Mines and Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO, Abaxx Technologies
This week, we present Part 1 of our end-of-year Holiday Special. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Robert Friedland, Founder & Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, and Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, to look back at how the SmarterMarkets™ vision has developed over the last two years and discuss where it’s going next.

Dec 17, 2022 • 34min
Financing the Energy Transition Episode 7 | Mark Frayman, Managing Partner, Orion Industrial Ventures
We close out our Financing the Energy Transition series this week with Mark Frayman, Managing Partner at Orion Industrial Ventures. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Mark to discuss the role of venture capital in decarbonizing mining and heavy industry.

Dec 10, 2022 • 26min
Financing the Energy Transition Episode 6 | Leah Wieczorek, Vice President, Global Carbon, Macquarie Group
We continue our Financing the Energy Transition series this week by welcoming Leah Wieczorek into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Leah is Vice President of Global Carbon at the Macquarie Group. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Leah to discuss the role that banks like Macquarie play in scaling the carbon markets and in financing the energy transition.

Dec 3, 2022 • 46min
Financing the Energy Transition Episode 5 | Adam Bornstein, Lead, Innovative Finance & System Change, Danish Red Cross
This week, we welcome Adam Bornstein into the SmarterMarkets™ studio as we continue our Financing the Energy Transition series. Adam is the Lead of Innovative Finance & System Change at the Danish Red Cross. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Adam to discuss how ESG, impact investing, and carbon finance can be put to work to fund humanitarian relief and resilience to a changing climate.

Nov 26, 2022 • 47min
Financing the Energy Transition Episode 4 | John Goldstein, Head of the Sustainable Finance Group, Goldman Sachs
We continue our Financing the Energy Transition series by welcoming John Goldstein back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. John is Head of the Sustainable Finance Group at Goldman Sachs. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with John to discuss how ESG and impact investing has evolved over the past two years and where we need to be doing the hard work right now to finance the energy transition.

Nov 19, 2022 • 33min
Financing the Energy Transition Episode 3 | Don Casturo, Founding Partner & CIO and Matt Schwab, Head of Investor Solutions at Quantix Commodities
This week, we welcome Don Casturo and Matt Schwab of Quantix Commodities into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Don is Founding Partner & CIO and Matt is Head of Investor Solutions at Quantix. Don and Matt sit down with SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely to discuss the role of commodity futures indices in financing the energy transition.

Nov 12, 2022 • 38min
Financing the Energy Transition Episode 2 | Nikita Singhal, Managing Director and Co-Head of Sustainable Investment & ESG, Lazard Asset Management
We continue our Financing the Energy Transition series with Nikita Singhal, Managing Director and Co-Head of Sustainable Investment & ESG at Lazard Asset Management. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Nikita to discuss her approach to ESG investing and building investment strategies in public equities.

Nov 5, 2022 • 50min
Financing the Energy Transition Episode 1 | Nat Bullard, Senior Contributor, BloombergNEF and Venture Partner, Voyager Ventures
We kick off our new series, Financing the Energy Transition, with Nat Bullard, Senior Contributor at BloombergNEF and a Venture Partner at Voyager Ventures. Nat writes weekly for Bloomberg Green on energy, transport, technology, climate, and finance. We start our new series by exploring with Nat the size of the investment that’s happening in the energy transition, where it’s coming from, and where it’s going to.

Oct 29, 2022 • 40min
Winter is Coming Episode 9 | Greg Sharenow, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for Commodities and Real Assets, PIMCO
This week, we welcome Greg Sharenow into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Greg is the Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for Commodities and Real Assets at PIMCO. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Greg to discuss the European energy crisis, commodity markets, inflation, and what it all means for investors.