Syz the Future is a monthly podcast hosted by Richard Byworth, partner at Syz Capital, the alternative investment firm. The show dives into the critical issues shaping our world today and its uncertain future: from forever wars to energy security, sustainability and monetary debasement to disruptive technology and geopolitics. Each episode tackles one of these key challenges we are facing in depth, clarifying tangible steps to move forward, while examining how this might inform capital alloc ...
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Ep.12: Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich – The Future of Capital is Here
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40:19Simon Gerovich (https://x.com/gerovich) is the President and Board Rep Director of the top company in the world right now in stock performance, Metaplanet ($MTPLF). After adopting a bitcoin treasury strategy following the footsteps of Michael Saylor's Strategy formerly Microstrategy ($MSTR). Metaplanet shot up to the top of the Japanese stock marke…
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Ep.11: Banque Syz CIO Charles-Henry Monchau – "Underinvested, Undervalued": The Opportunity
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39:25Charles-Henry Monchau (https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-henry-monchau-cfa-cmt-caia-4003096/) is the Chief Investment Officer at Bank Syz and leading voice on investing in global markets. Charles-Henry is a true citizen of the world -- Swiss-French by birth, growing up in Africa and having worked all over Europe and the Middle East. He drops into…
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Ep.10: Luzius Meisser and Yves Bennaïm – Swiss Democracy and the Bitcoin Public Initiative
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37:22The Bitcoin Public Initiative is a direct democratic effort by Luzius Meisser and Yves Bennaïm for the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to include bitcoin in its reserves. Luzius is a board member of Bitcoin Suisse and Bitcoin Association of Switzerland as well as founder of Meisser Economics and Frankencoin. Yves is founder of 2B4CH, a think tank on bitc…
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Ep.9: Ex-Goldman Sachs Advisor Jennifer Wines – What is Real Wealth?
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37:52Jennifer Wines (https://x.com/jennifer__wines) is the Author of Invisible Wealth and a Certified Wealth Planning Advisor with novel insights into the evolution of wealth in our modern age. After many years spent at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Fidelity, she observed that clients were reconceptualizing their definition of wealth (largely in part due …
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Ep.8: Geophysicist Dr. Jason Box – Climate, Conspiracy and Capital
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39:50Geophysicist and glaciologist Professor Jason Box (https://x.com/climate_ice) joins Richard in the studio to discuss extreme weather, water security and the politics of it all. As a scientist, Dr. Box has spent 30 years in the field studying empirical data collecting quantitative metrics on ice, meltwater and other earth atmospheric measurements in…
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BONUS: Year End Special – Jeff Booth Keynote
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55:03As a bonus to the regular programming of the Syz the Future Podcast, we are providing this keynote address from one of our favorite guests, Jeff Booth, at the Syz Capital Alternatives Summit held in Zurich in May 2024. Please enjoy this little new year gift from Jeff and us! X (Twitter): https://x.com/syzthefuture Richard's X (Twitter): https:// x.…
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Ep.7: Woonomics' Willy Woo – Money in the Next 10,000 Years: Kardashev and Beyond
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36:43Willy Woo (https://x.com/woonomic) is the Managing Partner of CMCC Crest Fund and an innovative financial markets leader truly at the vanguard of on-chain analysis of blockchain data. He joins Richard in the studio after a 3 year hiatus from the public to discuss the historical framework measuring technological innovation, the evolution of money an…
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Ep.6: GREED & Fear's Chris Wood – Trump, Trade and Treasure: Navigating the New World Order
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39:16Chris Wood, the award winning equity strategist at Jefferies/CLSA, author of the long-running investing newsletter GREED & Fear and former Bureau Chief at The Economist joins us to discuss the tectonic shifts in macroeconomics and financial markets in the age of Trump's re-election. This episode explores the incoming administration, US-China geopol…
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Ep.5: JAN3/Ex-Blockstream's Samson Mow – Convenience or Privacy: CBDCs, Digital IDs, an Upgrade?
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37:11Samson Mow (https://x.com/Excellion) of JAN3 / ex-Blockstream fame, is a regular advisor to Nation States on integrating Bitcoin to manage sovereign debt and an accomplished gaming and tech entrepreneur. He discusses how his work with digital money and technology has come into contact with notions of privacy and freedom and how our love of more and…
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Ep.4: Jeff Booth – How the Dollar is Shortchanging You
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33:57Jeff Booth is the celebrated bestselling author of the Price of Tomorrow, GP of Ego Death Capital and a well-known thought leader in investment strategies involving Bitcoin. We sit down with Jeff to discuss the mounting pressure we are all feeling in money markets as a result of the out of control money printing by central banks, including, especia…
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Syz the Future is a monthly podcast hosted by Richard Byworth, partner at Syz Capital, the alternative investment arm of the Syz Group. The show dives into the critical issues shaping our world today and its uncertain future. From forever wars to energy security, sustainability and monetary debasement to disruptive technology and geopolitics, each …
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Ep.3: Eric Syz – Lessons from Building a Bank: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Culture
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32:06Eric Syz is the inspirational innovator that founded the iconic Swiss bank, Bank Syz. The discussion covers the challenges and bright spots in building Bank Syz, his view for the legacy of the bank, advice to other entrepreneurs and alternative portfolio construction. X (Twitter): https://x.com/syzthefuture Richard's X (Twitter): https://x.com/R…
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Ep.2: Benjamin J Butler – The Future of Government in the Era of Public Institutional Collapse
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39:16In a wide-ranging discussion with Benjamin J Butler (https://x.com/englishfuturist), we discuss the growing distrust of our public institutions, the future of government, environmental sustainability, systemic corruption, and the real way forward: bypassing the catchy slogans to truly address the real problems. Inflation as a permanent issue versus…
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Ep.1: Geopolitics Expert Dr. David Legg – Energy Security: Climate Solution or Forever Wars?
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38:20David Legg is an expert on global geopolitics and advisor to governments on energy security. This discussion covers the various forever wars being fought across the globe and their linkage to energy security. How we can actually have a significant impact on the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and how nuclear can shake its negative stigm…
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