The Financial Times and Pushkin Industries have launched Unhedged, a new podcast that will dissect important market trends and discuss how Wall Street's best minds respond to them. The podcast will drop every Tuesday and Thursday.
Unhedged will be hosted by FT financial reporter Ethan Wu, who will be joined on Tuesdays by FT markets editor Katie Martin. The podcast will regularly feature a roster of the FT’s leading markets experts, including US financial commentator Robert Armstrong, Alphaville correspondent Alexandra Scaggs and Alphaville editor Robin Wigglesworth.
Supported by PGIM as the inaugural global advertising partner, Unhedged will explain the big ideas behind financial headlines, from the frenzy over AI technologies to Warren Buffet’s wager on Japanese stocks. Each 15-minute episode will offer a global outlook, industry insights and unique analysis of the latest markets and finance news.
Unhedged is a co-production from the FT and Pushkin Industries, continuing a partnership that produced the award-winning investigative series Hot Money in 2022. The new podcast extends the FT’s Unhedged brand, which includes the newsletter by the same name, written by Armstrong and Wu.
“It's the smart, chatty analysis we've been doing on the Unhedged newsletter, now in audio form,” said Ethan Wu, host of the Unhedged podcast. "Aside from being important to work and investing, talking markets is just good fun. That's something we want to share with anyone who's interested, not only finance professionals."
“We’re excited to be partnering with the fantastic team at Pushkin on another podcast,” said Cheryl Brumley, the FT’s global head of audio. “There's nothing like Unhedged out there. It’s a fresh and essential take on markets news, featuring some of the sharpest minds and wittiest voices in the FT newsroom.”
“Pushkin Industries is thrilled to be making a show with the best finance journalists on the planet,” said Jacob Goldstein, executive producer at Pushkin Industries. “Unhedged is going to be so smart and so delightful.”
Unhedged is available from today at unhedged.ft.com, as well as on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts and wherever you get your podcasts.
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About the Financial Times
The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading business news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. The FT has a record paying readership of 1.2 million, more than one million of which are digital subscriptions. It is part of Nikkei Inc., which provides a broad range of information, news and services for the global business community.
About Pushkin Industries
Pushkin Industries is the audio production company co-founded by Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg in 2018. Pushkin has produced numerous podcasts that have broken into the top 10 on Apple’s Top Podcasts chart, including Gladwell’s hugely successful Revisionist History, as well as Against the Rules, The Happiness Lab, Broken Record, Cautionary Tales, The Last Archive, Deep Cover, Lost Hills and Apple’s Best Show of 2021, A Slight Change of Plans. Pushkin’s podcast hosts include Michael Lewis, Jill Lepore, Rick Rubin, Maya Shankar, Tim Harford, Laurie Santos, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ben Austen, Dana Goodyear, Jake Halpern, Hallie Rubenhold, Sam Fragoso, Glory Edim, Anita Hill, Jacob Goldstein, Brendan Francis Newnam, Eddie Alterman and many more. Pushkin’s audiobooks include the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen, Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis, Fauci by Michael Specter, Heartbreak by Florence Williams, and Malcolm Gladwell’s Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon, The Bomber Mafia and Talking to Strangers.
About PGIM
PGIM is the global asset management business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), a leading global investment manager with more than $1.27 trillion in assets under management as of March 31, 2023. With offices in 18 countries, PGIM’s businesses offer a range of investment solutions for retail and institutional investors around the world across a broad range of asset classes, including public fixed income, private fixed income, fundamental equity, quantitative equity, real estate and alternatives. For more information about PGIM, visit pgim.com.
Prudential Financial, Inc. (PFI) of the United States is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential plc, incorporated in the United Kingdom, or with Prudential Assurance Company, a subsidiary of M&G plc, incorporated in the United Kingdom. For more information please visit news.prudential.com.