Advanced Investing The Rational Reminder Podcast Episode 74: Playing with FIRE, Having a Belief System, and Term Life Insurance PWL Capital 2019-12-2T11:45:43 December 2, 2019 We are proud to say that last week’s show received our highest amount of downloads yet, with 10 000 in its first week, so a big thank you to our listeners for that. We begin our discussion this week with some takeaways from the Playing With FIRE documentary about doing affordable things that feel good as a way of cutting costs.
Advanced Investing The Rational Reminder Podcast Episode 73: Finance for Physicians: Personal Finance for High Income Earners with the Loonie Doctor 2019-12-2T10:46:48 December 2, 2019 In today’s episode, we are joined by an exciting guest, The Loonie Doctor, of The Loonie Doctor blog to talk about his work not only on physician finance but also on holistic wealth. A physician by training, The Loonie Doctor has scaled back his practice to put more work into the blog and financial education.
Advanced Investing The Rational Reminder Podcast Episode 72: Interest Rates, Optimal Asset Location, and Reverse Mortgages 2019-11-14T05:30:54 November 14, 2019 Today on The Rational Reminder Podcast, we talk about the relationship between asset allocation and outcome, the ins and outs of reverse mortgages, and finally, life insurance (or lack thereof) in Canada. However, we begin by sharing some interesting points covered in a recent Barry Ritholtz interview with Eugene Fama and David Booth for his Masters in Business show.
Advanced Investing The Rational Reminder Podcast Episode 71: Everything that you could ever know about ETFs with Dave Nadig 2019-11-7T05:30:41 November 7, 2019 Today we welcome Dave Nadig onto the show, who joins us off the back of a brilliant presentation he gave at the Wealth Stack conference last month in Scottsdale. Dave is the founder of etf.com and has had key positions at FactSet, Barclays Global Investors, and Cerulli previously.
Advanced Investing The Rational Reminder Podcast Episode 70: Fee-only Financial Planning, Home Country Bias, and Big RRSPs 2019-10-31T05:30:15 October 31, 2019 On today’s episode, we cover a variety of topics, such as some tips for DIY investors, highlights from a conference Cameron recently attended, home country investment bias and whether it’s possible to have too much money in your RRSP.
Advanced Investing The Rational Reminder Podcast Episode 69: Quantitative Investing: The Solution to Human Bias with Wes Gray 2019-10-24T05:30:17 October 24, 2019 Today we are joined by Wesley Gray who is the CEO of Alpha Architect, a firm in the US that specializes in concentrated factor strategies. Having completed his MBA and PhD at the University of Chicago – the Harvard of the finance world – Wes is an authoritative voice when it comes to quantitative research and factor investing.
Advanced Investing The Rational Reminder Podcast Episode 68: Listener Questions and Re-Framing Risk 2019-10-17T05:30:57 October 17, 2019 Welcome back to the podcast everybody, we have another great round-up episode for you where we field questions that you sent in and cover a bunch of things we think you need to hear!
Starting Out Benjamin Felix Are You Ready for a Recession? 2019-10-14T10:39:36 October 14, 2019 It has been more than a decade since the last U.S. recession. Prior to that, the longest gap between recessions was exactly a decade. Moreover, when I started drafting this post and its related video, the U.S. yield curve had briefly inverted, which means longer-term bond rates were lower than shorter-term bond rates. Besides this being a bit Alice-in-Wonderland-like, inverted yield curves also have been good predictors of coming U.S. recessions.
Advanced Investing The Rational Reminder Episode 67: The Pursuit of Finances and Fun with Jill Schlesinger. 2019-10-10T05:30:36 October 10, 2019 From a trader on Wall Street to a financial advisor with her own firm, our guest today, Jill Schlesinger, has accumulated a lifetime of knowledge in the investing and financial world. Today she is a household name and well-known media personality, appearing on a variety of CBS shows and hosting her own podcast called Jill on Money.
Advanced Investing The Rational Reminder Podcast Episode 66: Asset Allocation Funds, Private Equity IPOs, and The Efficient Market Hypothesis. 2019-10-3T05:30:23 October 3, 2019 We kick off today’s episode with a discussion about the gap between investor performance and fund performance, the potential reasons why asset allocation funds produced a positive gap and the role that timing and volatility play in a negative behaviour gap.
Advanced Investing The Rational Reminder Podcast Episode 65: Investing Based on the Evidence Pyramid: A Few Lessons from the Medical Profession with Dr. Wendall Mascarenhas. 2019-09-26T05:30:49 September 26, 2019 Our guest today on the Rational Reminder Podcast is Dr. Wendall Mascarenhas. Wendall is a listener, DIY investor a medical professional. He actually reached out to us on Twitter and suggested this episode, a listener-centric discussion as well as one comparing the different approaches to evidence from the medical and the financial communities.