Benjamin Felix

Exciting new technologies, and the companies that create them, seem like obvious investment opportunities. Why wouldn’t you want to invest in the companies leading a new world-changing technological paradigm? Each past technological revolution has changed the world in profound and distinct ways, but their relationship with financial capital has been remarkably consistent. While we can’t predict how emergent technologies will change the world, we can draw insight from how financial markets have behaved through past technological revolutions.

Dr. Brian Portnoy and Josh Brown’s book How I Invest My Money, captures the stories and investment strategies of 25 top financial advisors. The book highlights that while there are established dogmas that tell you how and why you ought to invest, there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ way to invest. Today we speak with Brian and Josh about the key insights that we can derive from their work.

Thank you for tuning in to this episode of the Rational Reminder. We start this show with some great news about the comment section and our migration to Discourse. Having an open dialogue has always been crucial for us—it has even led to our latest hire—so we felt it was time to add more structure to it.

Are you wondering how the upcoming U.S. presidential election might affect your investments? This is not a new kind of concern. Elections are stressful times, and the heightened rhetoric from across the political spectrum doesn’t help. With so much at stake, it may seem obvious the outcome could impact the stock market. I cannot turn down the volume, nor am I going to take a political side. But I can tell you what the data say about the relationship between U.S. presidential elections and U.S. stock markets. Bottom line, what may seem so “obvious,” may not be. Not even when the election could be a tight one.

Despite the mountain of evidence against it, day trading is thriving. Today we dive into the research and explore why the practice is alive and well before answering the question — “Can too much confidence lose you money?” After touching on investing news, listener feedback, our books of the week, and our take on the ‘Ultimate Ned Debate,’ we open our discussion on day trading.

What are the psychological conditions that allow investors to make rational decisions, and how do these processes of decision-making occur? These are the questions that our guest, Victor Ricciardi, is dedicated to answering and what he is here on the show today to talk about!

Good decision-making is a fundamental part of achieving our goals, so getting better at it would be in anybody’s best interest. Here to talk about making better decisions is Annie Duke, expert poker player and author of How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Decisions, and Thinking in Bets. 

Thank you for tuning in to this episode of the Rational Reminder. We start this show with some great news about the comment section and our migration to Discourse. Having an open dialogue has always been crucial for us—it has even led to our latest hire—so we felt it was time to add more structure to it.

So, why not just concentrate your investments in these biggest and most exciting companies? Between their extraordinary recent returns and their world-changing products and services, it’s easy to believe this time is different, and these are the only stocks you need to own.

For the first part of today’s discussion, we are joined by Don Coletti from The Central Bank of Canada. He is here to talk about their upcoming recommendation for a monetary policy framework for the next five years which is incorporating public feedback into its development through the survey, Lets Talk Inflation.