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Many Happy Returns — 235 episodes

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Will AI Hack My Accounts and Steal All My Money?

2

Mind Your Step: Before You Build a Bond Ladder

3

Zero Sum: Investing in a World Without Growth

4

Defending the Yen: Can Governments Beat Currency Markets?

5

Record Profits: The Importance of Beating Earnings

6

Senior Management: Who Looks After Your Money When You Can't?

7

Beta Noire: Unsolved Mysteries of the Market

8

Gilt Complex: Is Britain in Hock to the Bond Market?

9

The Declaration of Outperformance: Is America Still Exceptional?

10

Portfolio Positions: Your Starting XI of Asset Classes

11

Your Career is a High-Yield Bond (And It’s Probably Junk)

12

Sequence and Sensibility: Is Now a Good Time to Retire?

13

How the AI Investment Boom Ends, with Tom Stevenson

14

Paws and Reflect: The Surprising Science of Who Wins at Investing

15

Reserve Judgment: How To Run a Central Bank

16

Space Oddity: Is the Biggest IPO in History a Problem for Index Funds?

17

Rising Yields: Gilty Until Proven Innocent?

18

Britain's Slow-Motion House Price Crash

19

Making Sense of a Weird Market: Record Highs, Sticky Inflation, and Silent Alarms

20

Do Your Own Research: What Real Investment Research Actually Looks Like

21

Statistical Sleight of Hand: How Good Numbers Hide Bad Investments

22

Shopping the Drop: Is Anything Actually Cheap?

23

Your Portfolio Wasn't Built for This

24

The War of Unintended Consequences: Oil, Inflation, and Interest Rates

25

Damien Talks Money: What Investors Click vs. What They Need

26

Capital Preservation: The Art of Not Losing Money, with Jasmine Yeo from Ruffer

27

The Tariffs Are Dead. Long Live the Tariffs.

28

Crypto Winter 2.0: Be Careful What You Wish For?

29

Kiss Your SaaS Goodbye: The AI Threat to Software Stocks

30

Gold & Silver Crash: Is Bullion’s Bull Run Over?

31

Vanguard Goes Global: Is Home Bias a Mistake?

32

Does Europe Have the Financial Firepower to Stand Up to Trump?

33

Investing in Crazy Times: Should You Carry on as Normal?

34

Investing vs. Gambling: How to Tell the Difference

35

2026 Watchlist: Trends That Could Shape the Year Ahead

36

10 Investing Facts That Can't be True (But Are)

37

The Naughty List: Assets That Misbehaved in 2025

38

The 2025 Stress Test: The Banks Are Safe... Are You?

39

Devil in the Details: Is the Budget Worse Than Imagined for Investors?

40

The Physics of Financial Markets

41

How to Pick Your Perfect Portfolio, with Tyler from Portfolio Charts

42

FIRE Drill: Is Financial Independence Still Possible?

43

So You’ve Decided to Time the Market…

44

Beyond the Gloom: The UK's Hidden Stock Winners, with Ed Croft

45

The Debasement Trade: Faith, Fear, and the Fall of Fiat?

46

Closed-Circuit Capitalism: Inside AI’s Trillion-Dollar Money Loop

47

The Unbalanced Sheet: What Is Your Net Worth, Really?

48

What I’ve Learned: Keeping Your Portfolio (and Yourself) on Track

49

Cash on the Sidelines: Are Brits Scared to Invest?

50

Gold is a Terrible Investment (And Why You Should Own It)

51

Stick or Twist: Should You Second Guess the Autumn Budget?

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Stocks vs. Bonds: Who Wins the Next Decade?

53

The Visible Hand: Is America Abandoning Free-Market Capitalism?

54

FCA Lifts the Ban: UK Investors Can Buy Crypto ETNs—But Should You?

55

Has Trump Won the Trade War?

56

Can We Still Trust the Economic Data?

57

The Everything Bubble: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

58

The Unicorn Farm: Betting on AI Startups

59

Why Can't I Retire Early?!

60

Is the UK Stock Market Dying?

61

Neural Net Worth: What If AI Isn’t a Bubble?

62

Fragile Ceasefire: Are Markets Complacent?

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Crash Course: The Scariest Days in Stock Market History

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Outsmarting the Index: Strategies That (Sometimes) Work for Active Funds

65

Section 899: America’s Revenge Tax on International Investors

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ISAs Under Review: Will Cash Savings Get Capped?

67

Know Thyself: How Risk-Tolerant Are You Really?

68

When the Free Lunch Bites Back: Navigating Changing Asset Correlations

69

Buffett Bows Out: Can Berkshire Thrive Without Him?

70

100 Days Down: Making Sense of Trump's Market Shockwaves, with Katie Martin

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What to Buy in Your ISA In 2025: Is This Year Different?

72

Stars and Strife: Is This the End of American Exceptionalism?

73

The Orange Swan: Surviving the $10 Trillion Selloff

74

The Trillion Pound Question: Is Government Debt Out of Control?

75

Quid’s In: How Much Can You Invest Tax-Free?

76

The Hidden Bull Market: The Stocks Defying the Gloom

77

New World Disorder: Investing Amid the Chaos

78

The Road to Wealth: 10 Financial Milestones Worth Celebrating

79

Whale Watching: What If the Biggest Investors Dump Their Holdings?

80

Wall Street Wisdom: The Truth Behind Investing Clichés

81

Are Your Investments Secretly Leveraged?

82

Trade War Truce: Crisis Averted or Just Delayed?

83

Trump, Tariffs and AI: The Stories Shaping Markets in 2025

84

Meltdown: Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse, with Duncan Mavin

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Soaring Gilt Yields and Strained Public Finances, with Simon French

86

Red Flags: China’s Economic Troubles, with George Magnus

87

Jingle Bulls, Jingle Bears: Are Investors Overconfident Heading into 2025?

88

Emerging Markets: Risky Bet or the Next Big Bargain?

89

Kaput: The End of the German Miracle, with Wolfgang Münchau

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Stoic Investing: Are We Worrying About the Wrong Things?

91

Trump 2.0: Political Risk and Complacent Markets, with Economist Larry Hatheway

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Maxed Out Markets: Investing When Everything Is Expensive

93

Gilt Yields and Ghosts of Budgets Past: Who's Afraid of Bond Vigilantes?

94

Chance, Risk, and the Art of Uncertainty, with Sir David Spiegelhalter

95

Election Economics: Will A Trump Win Upend Markets?

96

Time vs Money: How the Clock Transforms Your Investments

97

Bracing for the Budget: Tax Rises, Black Holes & Growth, with Paul Johnson from the IFS

98

Beijing’s Big Gamble: Stock Markets Soar On China's Stimulus

99

Productivity Crisis: Is Europe A Basket Case?

100

Smart Ways to Stash Your Cash: Banks, Bonds & Money Market Funds

101

Confronting Uncertainty: Building a Financial Plan in an Uncertain World

102

Mean Reversion in Markets: What Goes Up Must Come Down?

103

Boom and Bust: Ranking the Biggest Bubbles in History

104

The Default Pension Trap: What to Consider BEFORE You Switch Pension

105

Volatility Trading: Making Money from Market Swings

106

Market Mayhem: Flash Crash or Full Blown Crisis?

107

Metal of the Future: Has Copper Come A Cropper?

108

Don't Get Burned: Avoid Single Points of Failure in Your Finances

109

David vs Goliath: Small-Cap Stocks Finally Surge

110

UK House Prices: Is the Slump Over?

111

Home Country Bias: Should You Overweight Domestic Stocks?

112

Mid-Year Market Update: Are Things As Good As They Seem?

113

Will A Labour Government Be Good For Investors?

114

Interest Rate Cuts: Coming to a Central Bank Near You?

115

Trade Wars: How Will Tariffs on China Impact Your Investments?

116

Building a Multi-Factor Stock Portfolio, with Ed Croft

117

Bond Battle: Individual Bonds or Bond Funds?

118

Building a Bulletproof Retirement Portfolio, with Tyler from Portfolio Charts

119

Earnings Season: Can US Stocks Deliver the Goods?

120

Payout Puzzle: Does Dividend Investing Make Sense?

121

Should you de-risk your portfolio before retirement?

122

Is The Bank of England Broken?

123

How To Invest a Lump Sum in 2024

124

Are Investors Rational? Lessons From the Late Daniel Kahneman

125

Bad Apple: The Trustbusters Target Big Tech

126

Bubble Trouble: Are Investors Right to be Worried?

127

Sustainable Investing: The End of ESG?

128

9 Things to Do Before the End of the Tax Year

129

The Rise and Rise of Nvidia: AI Breakthrough or Bubble?

130

UK Recession: Investing During an Economic Downturn

131

Schrödinger's Flat: How Big a Problem is Commercial Real Estate?

132

Are UK Stocks Really a Bargain?

133

The Best Free Investing Tools

134

Weird Portfolios and Wonderful Companies, with Value Stock Geek

135

10 Things They Don't Tell You About Stocks

136

What I learned from talking to 1,000 people about their investments

137

Demographic Shifts: Will Population Ageing Derail Stock Returns?

138

Soft Landings Are Hard: How Has the US Economy Achieved the Impossible?

139

Merry Market Quizmas: Can You Outsmart Ramin?

140

Charlie Munger's Wisdom: Profit, Polemics and Peanut Brittle

141

The Most Important Number in Investing

142

How to Fight Investing FOMO

143

Treasury Doom Loop: The World's Most Dangerous Trade?

144

Passive Power: Do Index Funds Hurt the Economy?

145

The Magnificent Seven: What if Big Tech Starts to Shrink?

146

Are UK Investment Trusts A Bargain?

147

Is Buy-to-Let Investing Dead?

148

Are Government Bonds Really Risk-Free?

149

The King of Passive Investing: No Longer at the Vanguard?

150

Small caps are cheap. Why do they keep getting cheaper!?

151

Has the Bank of England Bottled It?

152

Macro Mysteries: The Shocking Revision to UK GDP

153

Advice to My Younger Self: What I Wish I'd Known About Investing

154

BRICS: Bigger Is Better?

155

Tales from the Trading Floor: The Truth About Investment Banks

156

Is Value Investing Dead?

157

The Upside of Down Earnings: Plummeting Profits and Soaring Stocks

158

Is the China Growth Story Over?

159

Structured Products: An Expensive Free Lunch?

160

How To Stress Test Your Portfolio

161

Politics vs Economics: What Politicians Misunderstand About Markets

162

How To Live Off Your Investments In Retirement

163

Mid-Year Market Review: Time To Get Off The Bull?

164

How High Will Interest Rates Go?

165

The War on Crypto

166

Markets Are Quiet. Too Quiet.

167

How Late Is Too Late To Get Started Investing?

168

Japanese Stocks Surge: Is It Time To Buy?

169

What Will Cause The Next Market Crash?

170

Stock Market Rally: Fundamentals vs FOMO

171

Has inflation finally peaked?

172

Active Stock Picking Is Getting Harder

173

Rain or Shine: Building an All Weather Portfolio

174

Stunted Growth: Scottish Mortgage vs ARK

175

Contagion: Chain Reactions and the CoCo Powder Keg

176

Silicon Valley Bank collapse: The Fallout and the Bailout

177

Dry Powder: Where to Park Your Cash

178

Raging Bullion: Is Gold a Good Investment?

179

Seven Ways to Slice the Stock Market

180

Love Contractually: How to Invest as a Couple

181

How to Make Better Investing Decisions

182

Broken Records: Why are music catalogues so valuable?

183

Smart Money: If you don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy

184

Defaulty Towers: How dangerous is the US Debt Ceiling?

185

Surreal Estate: How far will house prices fall?

186

Tesla: What goes up Musk come down

187

Ready for a portfolio shakeup? What to consider before making a move

188

2022 Merry Market Recap: Claus for concern

189

Don't be fooled by 'Dreamwashing'

190

Tricks of the trade-off: How to balance priorities in investing

191

The Stock Market World Cup

192

The worst week in crypto history... so far.

193

The Long Covid Economy: Will the pandemic permanently change our society and investments?

194

Banana skin in the game: How to learn from your investing mistakes

195

Trick or Treat: Which assets will rise from the dead?

196

Gilt Trip: Did UK government bonds almost blow up the financial system?

197

Rate accompli: Are rising interest rates bad for all assets?

198

The Ten Commandments of Investing

199

Mini budget. Major problems.

200

The Bond King, with Mary Childs

201

How bad will the recession be?

202

Will artificial intelligence transform investing?

203

Is it dumb to invest in IPOs?

204

Investing in China: Year of the Bear?

205

Currency fluctuations: Take the hedge off?

206

Is inflation rigged?

207

Baby Buffett: How to invest for children

208

Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money.

209

The Weirdest ETFs: Moats, Goats and YOLO

210

The Big Shortage: What happens if Russia turns off the gas?

211

Leverage: No margin for error

212

Government bonds just got interesting

213

Market timing: Signs of the top and bottom

214

UK Stocks: No tech please, we're British

215

This is the new oil... honest.

216

What is risk?

217

How earnings season moves stock markets

218

Stablecoin collapse: The horse has bolted

219

Stock Market Myths

220

Warren Buffett: Is the magic back?

221

Should you hedge your investments against inflation?

222

Emerging Markets: Is it time to invest?

223

Could house prices crash?

224

How much is enough?

225

Meme Reversion

226

In the Toilet: Macroeconomic indicators

227

Bear in Mind: Cognitive bias in investing

228

Russian for the Exits

229

Satellite Navigation: Portfolio part 2

230

Core Strength: Portfolio part 1

231

It's not ESG being green

232

Tech Shares on the Titanic

233

Factor Fiction?

234

Bubble or Nothing?

235

Buffeted by Inflation