Standards & Pours, Episode 1

StandardsnPours — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:54:00 GMT

Markets move with a rhythm all their own, echoing—at least in retrospect—their established themes. As is the case with great musical compositions, these echoes emerge sometimes through emphatic repetition, sometimes through nuanced variation, and occasionally with dissonant, unpredictable counterpoint. In real time, however, those apparent structures are often obscured—buried beneath noise, volatility, and conflicting signals. We hear the market’s “music” only later, when we impose form on what first seemed random. And just as a performer must attune to phrasing, tempo, and dynamics to bring a work fully to life, so too must an investor stay alert to the cues of timing and inflection that reveal the market’s deeper movements.

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on Wednesday, October 8 at 4PM EDTJoin us at the crossroads of finance and song with our special guest, the legendary Marty Fridson, for this insightful deep dive into the fascinating Venn overlap of culture and commerce.

In honor of Marty’s appearance, we’ve created a survey to determine what our listeners are predicting for the markets at year-end 2025. For each of the four categories, choose the song that you believe we’ll be singing at midnight on December 31. We’ll report the results both here on the website and in an upcoming broadcast.

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About The Guest

Martin Fridson, CFA

Chief Investment Officer, Lehmann Livian Fridson Advisors, LLC

Martin Fridson is “perhaps the most well-known figure in the high yield world,” according to Investment Dealers’ Digest. At brokerage firms including Salomon Brothers, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch, he became known for his innovative work in credit analysis and investment strategy. For nine consecutive years he was ranked number one in high yield strategy in the Institutional Investor All America Research Survey.

Fridson received his B.A. cum laude in history from Harvard College and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He has served as president of the Fixed Income Analysts Society, governor of the CFA Institute, director of the New York Society of Security Analysts, and consultant to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

The Financial Management Association International named Fridson the Financial Executive of the Year in 2002. In 2000, he became the youngest person inducted up to that time in the Fixed Income Analysts Society Hall of Fame. A study based on 16 core journals ranked Fridson among the ten most widely published authors in finance in the period 1990-2001. In 2013 Fridson served as Special Assistant to the Director for Deferred Compensation, Office of Management and the Budget, The City of New York. The CFA Society New York, presented Fridson with its Ben Graham Award in 2017.

In 2000, The Green Magazine called Fridson’s Financial Statement Analysis “one of the most useful investment books ever.” The Boston Globe said his 2006 book, Unwarranted Intrusions: The Case Against Government Intervention in the Marketplace, should be short-listed for best business book of the decade.

Fridson’s commentary on economics and financial markets can be found on reuters.com

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