EisnerAmper Podcast

Kaelan Castetter, Managing Director of the Castetter Cannabis Group, shares his insights on navigating New York's cannabis landscape. He discusses the complicated licensing framework, emphasizing social equity initiatives amid ongoing litigation. Castetter highlights the financial challenges due to tax regulations and the impact of MasterCard's recent decision on payment transactions. The conversation also delves into the potential implications of federal legalization and how it could reshape state rights and the industry’s future.

In this episode of Engaging Alternatives Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Director, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Howie and Jason Schwartz, father and son and co-founders of Always Legit, which invests in sneakers as an asset class.   The duo share their outlook for sneakers as an asset class, including the greatest opportunities and challenges and more.

In this episode of Engaging Alternatives Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Director, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Alex Orn, Principal, Parallaxes Capital, an alternative investment manager focused on tax receivable agreements.  Alex shares his outlook for investing in tax receivable agreements, including the greatest opportunities and challenges and more.

Founder and CEO of Reimagining Lab Information (“reLIMS”) and current President of TiE Silicon Valley Anita Manwani has a career distinguished by a series of pivots. In this TechTalk episode, Anita has a conversation with EisnerAmper's West Coast Technology and Life Sciences Practice Leader Amar Bhatkhande about her journey from seasoned corporate executive to successful healthtech founder—and how she’s helping foster entrepreneurship among the next generation.

In this episode of Engaging Alternatives Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Director, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with Carlos Arcila-Barrera, CIO of Sigma Advanced Capital Management, a Chicago-based CTA focused on the commodities and carbon markets.  Carlos shares his outlook for CTA investing in commodities and carbon markets, including the greatest opportunities and challenges, how the firm is embracing ESG, sustainability and more.

Real estate specialists discuss trends in multifamily and commercial real estate investing, lender reactions to market uncertainty, challenges of refinancing, and issues in the office real estate sector.

In this episode of Engaging Alternatives Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Director, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with David Horowitz, Co-Founder and CEO of Touchdown Ventures, a venture capital firm that partners with corporations to invest in early and growth-stage companies. David shares the outlook for VC investing in early and growth stage companies, including the greatest opportunities and challenges, how the firm is integrating ESG and DEI and more.

TechTonic is a podcast series brought to you by Aimann Rasheed, one of EisnerAmper's digital transformation specialists, who guides listeners through seemingly complex topics relating to technology and their use cases. In this episode, we discuss how digital transformation has been an integral part of the automotive industry.

In this episode of CannaCast, Eric Altstadter, Partner and leader of EisnerAmper’s Cannabis and Hemp Group, speaks with David Mederrick of Team Screening about some of the issues employers need to consider when hiring and vetting employees.

Nels Stemm, Principal at Fairview Partners, discusses the outlook for private debt investing, including opportunities and challenges. They explore distressed debt investing and potential opportunities in private debt, such as loan purchases and high yield situations. They also discuss strategies to gain an edge in the market and evaluating risk in investments.