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Helping Financial Advisors Think Through Private Market Investing with Apollo's Lucy Xin

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Rule #1: Be Someone Clients Want to Take a Phone Call From – With Creative Planning’s Jeff Stolper

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Solving Financial Advisors’ Organic Growth Problem with FINNY Founder Eden Ovadia

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Impacting One Million Lives with Savant Wealth CEO Brent Brodeski

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Morningstar Wealth's 2026 Investment Outlook with Chief Investment Officer Philip Straehl

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Where Did the Small Caps Go?

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Advisor–Client Relationships Are Stronger When Goals Come First

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Morningstar Wealth’s Midyear Outlook—Where Is Opportunity Knocking?

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International Stocks – A Portfolio’s Missing Piece?

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Stay on Track Through Market Volatility—with Research, Not Reaction

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The Public-Private Convergence: How Private Market Investing Is Becoming More Accessible

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Financial Advisors Take Back Time with AssetMark

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2025 Outlook: Rotating Between Defense and Offense

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Post-Election Recap: Diversification, Fundamental Analysis, and Valuations Will Likely Drive Future Success

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Strange Times in the US Housing Market – Breaking it All Down

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Principles-Based Investing, Industry Trends, and Getting to Know Morningstar Wealth CIO, Philip Straehl

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Opportunity Awaits: A Midyear Outlook

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Lifetime Financial Advice: Enhanced Personalization by Considering Human Capital

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Baby Boomers to Millennials: Working Across Generations to Help Them Achieve Financial Goals

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U.S. Stocks: Beyond the Magnificent Seven

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2024 Outlook: Economy, Inflation, Best Ideas, and AI

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AI's Role in the Future of Wealth Management, Featuring the AI Character "Morningstar Mo"

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The Cutting Edge of Advisor Technology: Ezra Group's Craig Izkowitz

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BlackRock's Liz Koehler on Financial Advice, Using Models, and Raising the Bar

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Game-Changing Advisor Trends, With Cerulli and SMArtX

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30,000-Foot View of Financial Advisor Challenges, Including Data and New Regulations

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What Actions Add Value in This Environment?

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2023 Outlook: Inflation, Recession, Valuations, and Retirement

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An Inside Look at Direct Indexing

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“Advisors Will Want to Run a More Profitable, Growing, Scalable Practice” - Daniel Needham to Financial Advisors

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Latest Research on Stagflation & Market Impacts

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Investing in Today's Volatile Markets: New Season, 100th Episode

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Episode 100 Coming Next: But First, Listen To Our Most Downloaded Episode So Far

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Behavioral Science & Tips in Volatile Markets

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Getting Personal: Getting to Know How Advisors Get to Know Their Clients (Episode 13 Rebroadcast)

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What Does Good Forecasting Look Like—and Why Are Weather Forecasters So Good at It? (Episode 65 Rebroadcast)

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Our Insights on the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

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Investing Amidst Uncertainty

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Is Dollar-Cost Averaging Irrational? Compared to What? (Episode 30 Rebroadcast)

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Dump the Dow: Why What You Pay Attention to Matters (Episode 14 Rebroadcast)

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Demonstrating ESG Commitments for Advisors and Investors (Episode 74 Rebroadcast)

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Fear of the Unknown: Inflation and Rising Rates

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Key Investing and Behavioral Messages for Advisor-Client Meetings (Episode 51 Rebroadcast)

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Risk, Downside Protection, and the Goal Mindset

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Overconfident? Cognitively Rigid? How Investors Can Make Better Decisions by Dealing With Emotions and Biases (Episode 50 Rebroadcast)

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2022 Outlook

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ESG in 2022: a Simple, but Not Easy Short

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Easing Inflation Worries

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Sizing up Risks and Opportunities in Chinese Equities

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The Potential Impact of Corporate Tax Hikes on Equities

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The Sustainability Stress Test

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Our Global Convictions Following Q2 2021

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2021 Inflation Insights

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Global Energy Stocks: In Structural Decline or a Buying Opportunity?

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Our Reactions: 2021 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting

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Our Investment Convictions: Searching for Select Opportunities

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Will Consolidation Destroy Personalization for Financial Advisors?

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We're Temporarily Moving to a Biweekly Cadence

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Dividend Stocks: How Coronavirus, Value/Growth, and Interest Rates Have Affected Income

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Is Dollar-Cost Averaging Irrational? Compared to What? (Ep. 30 Rebroadcast)

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To Annuitize or Not? (Episode 35 Rebroadcast)

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Rules as Tools: Using Heuristics to Help Empower Financial Success

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South Korean Stocks: Has the Luster Faded After a Strong Finish to 2020?

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Demonstrating ESG Commitments for Advisors and Investors

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GameStop, Reddit, & Robinhood vs. Investing for the Long Run

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From 'the Ibbotson Chart' to Popularity: Lessons Learned From 5 Decades of Asset Allocation

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Our Investment Convictions: Finding Balance After a Significant Q4 Rebound

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Pairing Portfolios With an Investor's Goals

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Daniel Needham: How Changes in Active Management May Create Opportunities for Investors

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Theories, Crowds, Bubbles, & Bees: Daniel Needham on Contrarian Investing (Ep. 27 Rebroadcast)

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Thinking in Bets (and About Biases): A Deep Dive into Using Behavioral Science Techniques in Investing (Ep. 6 Rebroadcast)

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20 Years of 'Tipping': What Investors Can Learn From Gladwell's Classic Book (Ep. 34 Rebroadcast)

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Please Take Our Short Survey

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Opportunities in Equities

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The Rise of Big Tech

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Value Investing: Intelligent Investing Aims to Get More Than You Pay For (Ep. 16 Rebroadcast)

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What Does Good Forecasting Look Like? (And Why Are Weather Forecasters So Good at It?)

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How Should Investors Interpret the U.S. Election Returns?

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The Election, the Economy, and the Road to Recovery

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Our Investment Convictions: Why We’re Staying Off the Sidelines

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Risk in 2020: How to Help Investors Succeed

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Will Growth Stocks Outperform Value Forever?

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The Election Cycle: What Really Matters to Investors?

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Advisor Profile: For Ephie Coumanakos, Good Advice Is Personal Advice

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Does ESG Investing Lead to Weaker Returns?

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Investing in a Global Recession: Is This Time Different?

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Ask the PM: Finding ‘Robust, Reliable, and Growing’ Dividends in Today’s Markets

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Advisor Profile: From Yale to His Advice Practice, it’s All Hometown to John Caserta

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Key Investing and Behavioral Messages for Advisor-Client Meetings

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Overconfident? Cognitively Rigid? How Investors Can Make Better Decisions by Dealing With Emotions and Biases

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Advisor Profile: Kevin Schaefer Coaches Clients to Have a 'Simple Smile'

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U.S. vs. International Stocks: Will Next Decade’s Performance Look Different From the Last?

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‘Essential Businesses’: Managing Focused Stock Portfolios in a COVID-19 World

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Is This Rebound for Real? And Is Now a Good Time to Double-Check Risk Tolerance?

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Advisor Profile: Erik Bowman Moved Quickly to Adapt His Practice to COVID-19

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Markets in Crisis: What Are Potential Implications for Inflation?

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Markets in Crisis: Finding Income in Today's Markets

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Markets in Crisis: What’s Important to Remember During Trying Times?

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Markets in Crisis: Q1 Update and a Look Ahead

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Advisor Profile: How Has COVID-19 Affected Derek Notman's Practice? 'Not at all'