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A Conversation With The Wealthy Barber (Dave Chilton) | #433

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How Leveraged ETFs Really Work (Marco Sammon & Chris Murray) | #432

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The Madness of Markets (Alex Edmans) | #431

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The Truth About Leveraged ETFs | #430

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Who Causes Stock Market Anomalies? (w/ Victor Haghani) | #429

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Wealthy People Are Hiding in Plain Sight (ft. Owen Zidar) | #428

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What to Know Before (and After) You Hire an Advisor (w/ Matthew Taylor) | #427

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The Finances of Marriage | #426

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The Ethics Problem in Financial Services (Dr. Moira Somers & Philippa Hann) | #425

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50 Years of Evidence-Based Investing (w/ David Booth) | #424

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The Future of AI in the Workplace | Special Episode (Mike Sullivan and Vinay Gidwaney)

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The Biggest Myths in Personal Finance

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80 Years of Financial Knowledge in 53 Minutes | #422 (Bill Bernstein)

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Barry Ritholtz: "90% of financial products are crap" | #421

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Answering Your Financial Questions | #420

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The State of Retirement Research | #419 (Jean-Pierre Aubry)

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"I Sold 50% of My Portfolio. What Now?" | #418 (AMA)

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A Financial Plan For Your Entire Life | #417 (Dr. Paul Kaplan)

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Is VEQT Costing You? (& Other Questions) | #416

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Shannon Lee Simmons: How To Stop Feeling Broke | #415

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Answering Your Financial Questions | #414

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How Canadian ETFs Actually Work | #413 (Morley Conn)

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Ben Carlson: Investing at All-Time Highs | #412

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Market Simulations & Financial Planning | #411 (John Yang)

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Episode 410: The State of Investing in 2026

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Episode 409: Investment Banker - What Private Equity Doesn't Tell You

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Episode 408: Elroy Dimson – Investing & Optimism

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Episode 407: Michael Kothakota - The Shape of Financial Planning

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Episode 406: When Massive Private Companies Go Public

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Episode 405: Timothy Edwards - Inside S&P DJ Indices

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Episode 404: The Finance Paper that Changed Everything

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Episode 403: Patrick Adams - When Stock Crashes Matter for Long-Term Investors

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Episode 402: The Problem with Private Markets

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Episode 401: Eduardo Repetto & Caitlin Ebanks - Opening the Avantis CAGE

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Episode 400: The Evolution of Index Fund Investing

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Episode 399: James Choi - Portfolio Theory in a Spreadsheet

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Episode 398: Tom Hardin - Ethics, Financial Crime, and Redemption

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Episode 397: Hendrik Bessembinder - Constant Leverage & Measuring Investor Outcomes

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Episode 396: Theresa Ebden - Protecting Investors at the OSC

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Episode 395: Charles Chaffin - The Psychology of Financial Planning

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Episode 394: Equal Weight vs. Market Cap Weight Index Funds

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Episode 393: Engineering Financial Outcomes

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Episode 392: The Rise of ETF Slop

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Episode 391: How Assumptions Shape Financial Planning Outcomes

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Episode 390: The "AI Bubble" and Stock Market Concentration

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Episode 389: How the Rational Reminder Podcast is Made

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Episode 388: AMA #11 - Your Parents' Advisor, 100% Equity Portfolios, and Investing $10 Billion

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Episode 387: Lessons from The Wealthy Barber (2025)

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Episode 386: Is anyone doing dd? with Aravind Sithamparapillai

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Episode 385: A Case Study on Pension Benefits vs. Commuted Values

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Episode 384: Mamdouh Medhat - A Profitability Retrospective, and Private Fund Performance

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Episode 383: AMA #10 - Dollar cost averaging & mutual funds vs. ETFs

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Episode 382: Ted Cadsby - The Power of Index Funds, and Being Human

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Episode 381: Investing 101

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Episode 380: John Y. Campbell - Fixing Personal Finance

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Episode 379: AMA #9: Covered Call ETFs, Currency Hedging, and Bond Misconceptions

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Episode 378: Learning from Market History

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Episode 377: Investing in Your Health

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Episode 376: Climbing The Wealth Ladder

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Episode 375: Covered Calls: A Devil's Bargain

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Episode 374: The Underperformance of Target Date Funds

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Episode 373: Asset Allocation in Practice

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Episode 372: Elie Hassenfeld - (Approximately) Optimal Philanthropy

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Episode 371: Banks Sell Products, Not Advice

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Episode 370: Dave Chilton (The Wealthy Barber): Timeless Financial Advice

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Episode 369: The Most Important Quotes in Investing

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Episode 368: Jim Rowley & Andy Maack - Implementing Index Funds at Vanguard

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Episode 367: AMA #8 + Insurance Needs Analysis with Louai Bibi

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Episode 366 - Avoiding Investment Scams

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Episode 365 – Rob Carrick's Eight Lessons Learned in 27 Years of Covering Personal Finance

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Episode 364 – Martijn Cremers: Is the Conventional Wisdom on Active Management Wrong?

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Episode 363 - The (Underappreciated) Risk of Individual Stocks

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Episode 362 – AMA #7

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Episode 361: Alex Edmans - Finding "The Truth" in Economics, Finance, and Life

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Episode 360 – Gerard O'Reilly: The Components of Net Returns

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Episode 359 - The Most Controversial Topics in Personal Finance

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Episode 358 – Dr. Eli Beracha: Renting versus Buying a Home

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Episode 357 – AMA #6

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Episode 356 – Abby Davisson: How to Make Decisions About Money and Love

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Episode 355 – Do Index Funds Incur Adverse Selection Costs?

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Episode 354 - Jason Pereira: Expert Financial Planning

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Episode 353 – AMA #5

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Episode 352 – Jessica Moorhouse: Everything But Money

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Episode 351 – DFA vs Vanguard

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Episode 350: Scott Cederburg: A Critical Assessment of Lifecycle Investment Advice

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Episode 349 – AMA #4

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Episode 348 - Andrew Barclay (StatCan): Measuring Inflation

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Episode 347 - The Case for Index Funds

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Episode 346 - Hendrik Bessembinder: Why It's So Hard to Beat the Market

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Episode 345 - AMA #3

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Episode 344 - Michael Mauboussin: The One Job of an Equity Investor

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Episode 343 - How to Choose an Asset Allocation

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Episode 342 - Matthew Ringgenberg: When Do Anomaly Returns Happen?

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Episode 341 - PWL's Next Chapter

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Episode 340 - Ben Mathew: The Lifecycle Model vs. Safe Withdrawal Rates (SWR)

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Episode 339 - 2024 Year-End AMA Pt 2

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Episode 338 - Peter Mladina: Factor Betas and ICAPM in Practice

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Episode 337 - 2024 Year-End AMA

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Episode 336 - Steve Utkus: Investor Beliefs and Financial Advice

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Episode 335 - "What About Warren Buffett?"