Welcome to the thirty-seventh episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 Nearing close to the end of another month and it's time for another recap... 🗣️ Our resident crypto and equity experts respectively, Jeremy and Dylan, join us again for a SPECIAL edition of our regular monthly economic recap episodes. While there's been a lot happening in markets this month, we thought it'd be prudent to go through the two MAIN events that have really shaken up investors. And of course, what we're talking about is...

Welcome to the thirty-sixth episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 One of our most SENIOR and EXPERIENCED guests so far... 🫡 This week, it is our utmost pleasure to be joined by Jeremy Takle! He has over 25 years experience building banks globally, both as a FinTech CEO and as a Managing Director at Barclays. Most recently, he co-founded Pennyworth, a wealthtech company that puts a digital private banker in the pockets of busy people to help them reach their goals. So, with such an extensive journey,...

Welcome to the thirty-fifth episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 More episodes, more insights and EVEN MORE learnings... 🫡 For this episode, we're pleased to host Mohammed Darvesh, a Portfolio Analyst at St. James Place! Now for some of our eager followers, you may recognise Mohammed from our first ever short-form Q&A series surrounding the Bright Network festival, but we loved his journey and enthusiasm for the sector and so got him on for a full episode! A bit more about our guest,...

Welcome to the thirty-fourth episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 Returning with another interview with a professional guest... This week we're joined by Augustine Kabui, a Commercial Risk Broker at Aon! It is a pure crime that we haven't gone this in depth into the insurance industry on the show, but better late than never! More about our guest, Augustine has recently completed a graduate scheme and has built a STRONG foundation at Aon by leveraging on his academic background within Accounting...

Welcome to the thirty-third episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 Our resident experts, Dylan and Jeremy, join us again for the October economic recap! As always, a lot to talk about in this month's overview but also a big build up to a HUGE upcoming month! Again, we kick off on a macro level, breaking down some key US economic data and comparing trends alongside similar data from the UK. And (in case you didn't know! 😂) there's also a US election around the corner. So, we touch on Kamala's attempt...

Welcome to the thirty-second episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 ⚠️ Apologies for the slight lack in audio quality! ⚠️ For this weeks episode, we're honoured to bring to you a conversation that carries emotion, challenges, redemption and success... We're extremely privileged to be joined by Carlo Weaver, the CEO of Apprentago, an early careers technology platform focused on helping students, employers, and training providers with apprenticeships. Carlo is a Google-Recognised Technologist...

Welcome to the thirty-first episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 We're keeping this run of insane guests going! For this week's episode of Dumb Money, we're joined by Rich McDonald. He has over 20 years of experience in the financial industry and has also had the pleasure of working at esteemed institutions such as Credit Suisse (as their Former Head of Emerging Markets) and Macquarie (as a Former Director). Alongside his plethora of experience, he's also amassed over 50,000 followers on TikTok...

Welcome to the thirtieth episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 ⚠️ Apologies for the slight lack in audio quality! Somehow and someway, we have made it to Episode 30 of Dumb Money... And we're simply honoured to be joined by a household name for aspiring finance students, Anthony Cheung! For the small number of our listeners that don't know who Anthony is, he has spent the past 18 years at the forefront of financial news and analysis. He began his career as the Head of Market Analysis at...

Welcome to the twenty-ninth episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 It's September recap time! Another rollercoaster month full of news events that have a direct impact on both the equity and crypto markets. Including wider events that have a larger outcome on global economies. But, as usual, we're joined by Dylan Ilett and Jeremy Okornoe, our resident experts, to guide us through these headlines and how they might impact financial markets! Also, a bit of a different format to the episode this...

Welcome to the twenty-eighth episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 It's a great privilege to be joined on this week's episode of Dumb Money by Sohaib Ashraf! Sohaib is an Islamic Finance Portfolio Manager and content creator, but he didn't start his career with that in mind... After two summer internship programs at Lloyd's and KPMG, he moved to London in 2020, and started his career in corporate finance as an analyst. A few years later, he realised that he could learn more by building something, so...

Welcome to the twenty-seventh episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 This week, we're joined by Tayyab Farid, a mortgage and protection adviser under a large FTSE 250 company! He's also a social media content creator with a mission to educate and inform consumers regarding the mortgage market and various myths surrounding the field. Alongside this, he regularly advocates for young people wanting to enter the field of mortgage advisory through building up their network! We've barely scraped the...

Welcome to the twenty-sixth episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 A topic that has long been on our minds but now we've finally covered it! This week, we're joined by not ONE, but TWO finance degree apprentices, Jasneet Grover and Martin Lin. Jasneet is going into his third year as a Financial Services Degree Apprentice at JP Morgan! And Martin is going into his second year as a Consulting Degree Apprentice at KPMG! Both work very closely with one of our partners, Young Asians in Finance (stay...

Welcome to the twenty-fifth episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 It's August recap time! Another month of micro and macro news events affecting both the crypto and equities markets, as well as the broader economy as a whole. Luckily, we're joined by Jeremy Okornoe and Dylan Ilett, our resident experts, to guide us through some key news events and how they might impact different industries and markets! We start off with some brief comments on the Japanese Carry Trade, which we missed in last months...

Welcome to the twenty-fourth episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 Thrilled to be joined by another professional guest in the financial services sector! This week our guest is Mohamad Jaber, a seasoned finance professional with a rich background in economics and credit analysis! Holding a degree in Economics from the Lebanese University, Mohamad began his career in Lebanon, where he honed his analytical skills over four years as a credit analyst. His expertise for finance soon led him to the UK,...

Welcome to the twenty-third episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 For this episode, we're very pleased to be joined by a member of the Dumb Money team, Mekail Fazil! Mekail is our social media manager and is regularly behind-the-scenes of almost every Dumb Money episode. We've been trying to get him on for a while but luckily we managed to touch on his unique story live at the studio! We always like to start off from the early days. GCSEs, A-Levels and his aspirations as a child. But we also move...

Welcome to the twenty-second episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 No guest this week, instead an important topic that students (like us) can get their teeth into! We define and explain divisions in finance that are sometimes overlooked and slightly underrated by keen students wishing to break into the world of finance. We've chosen five of these divisions that we feel fit this description and we researched, reached out and spoke with various professionals within these respective sectors to ask them...

Welcome to the twenty-first episode of Dumb Money!🔥 It's that time again! This week we're joined by our resident experts Jeremy Okornoe and Dylan Ilett, for their monthly economic recap episode. Covering major news and significant events that occurred in July within the crypto and equities markets! As always, we start with the economic news, and this time this means the cut in UK interest rates, reflections on the latest FOMC meeting and a chat about inflation. Then swiftly moving onto...

Welcome to the twentieth episode of Dumb Money!🔥 Somehow we've made it to another milestone episode, and we've not stopped with the special guests! This week, we're joined by fellow digital content creator, trained Doctor and DeFi enthusiast, Wajahat Mughal! Currently, Waj is part of the core team at IVX, a novel options protocol being built on Berachain and he also spends his time creating educational content, with a focus on DeFi, yield generating strategies and protocol specific...

Welcome to the nineteenth episode of Dumb Money! For this episode, it is our honour and privilege to be joined by our BIGGEST guest to date, Andrew Osayemi! Andrew was raised in South London, graduated from Warwick University with a degree in Economics, spent 5 years at RBS as an FX Derivative Trader, and then started his very own TV production company and produced the hit TV show Meet the Adebanjos! Now he's back in the world of finance, in the sector of recruitment, and is the Head of...

Welcome to the eighteenth episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 For this weeks episode, we're joined by an experienced and very knowledgeable final year finance student, Liam Proctor! He has just recently completed a year-long placement at Hazlewoods, one of the UK's Top 35 independent Business Advisers and Chartered Accountants, and joined us to chat about his story surrounding his journey to securing a placement. As with all of our guests, we love to start with their thought process in Sixth Form,...

Welcome to the seventeenth episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 WE'RE BACK! 🤩 After a two week break, we're back in business and what better way to return than to be joined again by our resident experts, Jeremy Okornoe and Dylan Ilett for their monthly economic overview episode, covering major news and significant events throughout the crypto and equities markets! In case you didn't realise, the UK has got a new Prime Minister, (and we filmed this the day after voting day!) so for this episode we...

Welcome to the sixteenth episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 In this weeks episode, instead of focusing on a specific topic, we thought it best to provide a new perspective on some topics we've touched on before! After just finishing our first year of university, we've made some mistakes, learnt more than a few things and, most importantly, progressed in someway. So, this time, we discuss everything you need to know as a first-year student aiming for the world of banking. From setting a routine...

Welcome to the fifteenth episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 This week we're joined by Pal Kulcsar, a recent finance graduate and accomplished individual, who has a multitude of sector-specific knowledge. We touch on his background from when he first started to pursue the financial industry to his views on it now! Then we move on to discuss the surge in popularity of passive investments, the topic of Pal's final dissertation. We break down all of the different contributing factors while also...

Welcome to the fourteenth episode of Dumb Money! 🔥 For this weeks episode, we touch on aiming for a specific division in finance! Touching on only being able to keep your options wide open for so long, eventually a choice needs to be made on what you want to pursue. We break down the most popular sections of the banking sector that students aim for, while consolidating our own knowledge at the same time. With the hopes of helping people like us settle on a division they'd want to work...