Bloomberg's Brad Foster - driving the convergence between public and private markets

About this episode

The episode features Brad Foster from Bloomberg discussing the convergence of public and private markets driven by technology and data.

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode takes us to a hub of market structure, a powerhouse of trading, and a crossroads of public and private markets to discuss how private markets are in the midst of a market structure evolution. We sat down at Bloomberg ’s NYC headquarters with Bloomberg’s Head of Fixed Income & Private Markets Brad Foster to discuss how technology and data are driving a convergence between public and private markets, particularly as it relates to the credit space. Brad is the Head of Fixed Income & Private Markets at Bloomberg, where he’s focused on delivering the data, analytics, and tools clients need to power public and private market investment strategies and workflows. Brad joined Bloomberg in June 2017 to lead its Enterprise Data Content business as well as its Fixed Income Evaluated Pricing (BVAL) offering. He was appointed Head of Fixed Income, including Securitized Products, in early 2023 and Head of Fixed Income & Private Markets in early 2024. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Brad spent almost 20 years on the sell-side in multiple locations, including London, Tokyo, and New York, for Deutsche Bank as a Managing…

People in this episode

Host: Michael Sidgmore

Guest: Brad Foster

Topics covered

• market structure
• public markets
• private markets
• technology
• data analytics
• credit space

Keywords

• alternative investments
• wealthtech
• private markets
• fixed income
• market evolution

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bloomberg, Deutsche Bank

Places: NYC, London, Tokyo, New York

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