Sustainable Investing Part 1: A Sustainable Overview

Alas, all good things must come to an end. Today, I wrap our “Best of” series by revisiting one of our most important NDQ videos to date. When it comes to your investments, do you ever find yourself wondering something like, “Hey, what have they got that I haven’t?” If so, beware.

In this episode of the Rational Reminder Podcast we welcome Robin Powell. Robin is a journalist and content creator who has dedicated the more recent part of his career to helping spread the word on research backed investing and turning the tide on the history of investment advice.

This is Episode 26 of the Rational Reminder Podcast, with Cameron Passmore, Benjamin Felix and very special guest, David Goetsch, writer and Co-Executive Producer of the Big Bang Theory.

As we continue with our “Best of No Dumb Questions” series, there’s one question I don’t think we can repeat too often: How can you tell whether the advice you’re receiving is in YOUR best financial interest?

This is Episode 25 of the Rational Reminder Podcast with Cameron Passmore and Benjamin Felix.

Global markets show considerable local variation and investors can expect higher risk adjusted returns from international diversification (with one exception).

In my final podcast episode of 2018, I’m joined by Larry Swedroe, who has long been one of my favourite authors on investing and financial planning. Larry and I discuss his latest book, Your Complete Guide to a Successful & Secure Retirement, and we focus on the challenges investors face as they approach the end of their careers.

If you’re hoping I’m going to tell you how to successfully pick winning stocks, you might as well shift your attention elsewhere. Instead, I’m going to show you the evidence on just how risky it is to even try.

It’s hard not to feel a little depressed when you pick up the newspaper or switch on the TV news these days. There seems to no end to the trouble in the world. From the latest antics in Washington to tensions with China to the Brexit mess to riots in France to the lack of progress on climate change, the problems just seem to keep piling up.

If there’s an overnight success story to be savored from 2018, it would be Vanguard’s Asset Allocation ETFs. Since their launch earlier this year, their combined assets under management have already exceeded $800 million. What’s not to like about gaining access to a low-cost, self-rebalancing globally diversified portfolio with the click of a mouse?