Dan Taylor, an accounting professor of the Wharton School, and director of the Wharton Forensic Analytics Lab, describes his effort to define, identify, and address illegal insider trading through his academic research and policy advocacy.

Ira Hammerman, general counsel of the trade association SIFMA, joins our episode to discuss how regulation is shaping massive changes in the brokerage industry. He addresses controversial topics like payment for order flow, gamification of trading, and the role of investor choice and advice giving under new regulation Best Interest.

London Business School professor Alex Edmans, a leading scholar on ESG related issues, and author of the recent book “Grow the Pie,” joins this episode to explain a new way to think about evaluating company performance, dispelling the common belief that corporate purpose and profit can’t co-exist.