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Two Quants and a Financial Planner — 144 episodes

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Tech Down 10%. Earnings at Record Highs. Which One Is Lying? | 5 Things We Learned This Week

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Expensive Market. AI Backlash. Are Investors Pricing the Wrong Risk? | 6 Things We Learned This Week

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Easy Bubbles. Hard 100 Baggers. Useless AI | 6 Things We Learned This Week

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Expensive Market. Record Issuance. Can the Story Still Hold It Up? | 6 Things We Learned This Week

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When the Fire Hose Meets the Megatrend | The Weekly Wrap

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The $1.75T IPO No One Can Price | 6 Things That Surprised Us This Week

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They Lose on Purpose — And Still Come Out Ahead | The Weekly Wrap - 5/31/2026

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He Studied 100 Years of Bubbles. He Exposed Private Equity's Volatility Illusion | The Weekly Wrap

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He Invested Through Five Bubbles. He Wrote the Book on Them | The Weekly Wrap - 5/17/2026

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The S&P 500 is Just 46 Stocks. 89% of the Economy is Flatlining | What We Learned This Week

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Outperformed by Mom | The Weekly Wrap – 5/2/2026

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We Asked David Rosenberg, Chris Bloomstran and Cameron Dawson What This Market Is Getting Wrong

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We Asked Liz Ann Sonders, Jim Grant, and Brent Donnelly What Investors Miss About This Market

14

The Recession Signal Hidden in Walmart | The Weekly Wrap - 4/12/2026

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The 1 in 18,900 Bet | Practical Lessons from Michael Maboussin, Katie Stockton, Ben Hunt, Kuppy and Aahan Menon

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The Shock No One Can Price | The Weekly Wrap - 3/29/2026

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The War No One Can Price | The Weekly Wrap – 3/22/2026

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14% for Tech. 1% for Everyone Else | The Weekly Wrap – 3/14/2026

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From AI Hype to Hard Money | The Weekly Market Insight – March 8, 2026

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The Question No One Asks | What Great Investors Taught Us About Portfolio and Purpose

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The Retirement Rule No One Gets Right | Practical Lessons from Bill Bengen

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The Most Underutilized Concept in Investing | Four Lessons from Michael Mauboussin

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How to Avoid Selling Your Next 100-Bagger | Practical Lessons from Chris Mayer

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The Fourth Turning is Here. But It Isn’t What You Think | Practical Lessons from Neil Howe

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When Easy Markets Hide Hard Truths | Practical Lessons from Richard Bernstein

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QE Myths. Free Trade Lies. Fatal Mistakes | 12 Great Investors Share Their Most Unpopular Beliefs

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20,000 Watched in Silence. Then Buffett Dropped the Bombshell. | What It Means for Berkshire

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The Great Distortion: The Hidden Impact of Passive Investing | Practical Lessons from Mike Green

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Sequence Risk Can Derail Your Retirement: Here is How to Stop It | Practical Lessons from Wade Pfau

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The Seismic Shift Markets Are Missing | Practical Lessons from Ben Hunt & Grant Williams

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The Diversification Delusion | The Risk that Leaves Both Stocks and Bonds Exposed

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The Irrecoverable Error: Risk, Ruin, and the Rules of Wealth | Practical Lessons from Guy Spier

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The Dark Side of Value Investing: Practical Lessons from Aswath Damodaran

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Tariffs Are Here. The Market is Down. Here is What It Means for Investors

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Most Great Traders Failed First: These Key Rules Saved Them | Practical Lessons from Jack Schwager

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75% of Investors Will Disagree with These Ideas: Evidence Says They are True

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The Great Moderation is Over: Here is What Comes Next | Practical Lessons from Liz Ann Sonders

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Value Investing: Dead or Just Misunderstood? | Special Guest: Tobias Carlisle

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Practical Lessons from Bob Elliott

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Practical Lessons from Warren Pies

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Practical Lessons from Cem Karsan | Inside the Hidden Forces Moving Markets

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Practical Lessons from Jim Paulsen

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Practical Lessons from Jason Buck

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Practical Lessons from Ed Yardeni

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Practical Lessons from Cliff Asness

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Practical Lessons from Warren Buffett | Timeless Wisdom from the Oracle of Omaha

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Practical Lessons from Larry Swedroe | Why Evidence Beats Market Narratives

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The Unforecast Episode: Making Our 2025 Market Calls to Show Why Forecasting is a Waste of Time

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Do You Really Need International Diversification? 10 Top Investors Debate

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Practical Lessons from Andy Constan | Bridgewater, Macro Pillars and Navigating Deleveragings

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10 Great Investors Share Their Most Important Lesson

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Practical Lessons from Ben Carlson

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What the Rise of Passive Investing Means for Your Portfolio | Special Guest: Dave Nadig

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The Six Most Controversial Takes from Excess Returns in 2024

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Practical Lessons from Cullen Roche

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Practical Lessons from Tobias Carlisle | Value Investing, Buffett and the Importance of Survival

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Practical Lessons from Meb Faber | Dividends, Trend Following and a Timeless Asset Allocation

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Practical Lessons from Rob Arnott

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Practical Lessons from Jerry Parker

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Practical Lessons from Guy Spier

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Practical Lessons from Chris Davis

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Practical Lessons from Michael Mauboussin

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Quality and Low Volatility: The Factors That Get No Respect

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Practical Lessons from Aswath Damodaran

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The Case Against Value Investing

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Our Guests Gave Us 119 of Their Most Important Investing Lessons: We Give You Our Favorite 12

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10 Common Misconceptions About Factor Investing

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Inside the Recent Market Volatility | What You Need to Know to Navigate It

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Lessons from Jack Schwager | 10 Things Long-Term Investors Can Learn from History's Best Traders

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What You Need to Know About Momentum Investing | Six Experts Help Us Understand the Basics

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Practical Alternatives to the 60-40 Portfolio

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Eight Things We Learned from Our Interview with Mike Green | Practical Takeaways for Investors

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Our Biggest Takeaways from the First Half of 2024 | Inflation, Growth, Market Concentration

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Lessons From Our Interview with Rick Ferri | The Benefits of Simplicity

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A Practical Guide to the 4% Rule

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What You Need to Know About Analyzing Backtests

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Timeless Investing Lessons | Breaking Down Corey Hoffstein's 15 Lessons from 15 Years Managing Money

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The Market is Expensive: Should You Care? | The Practical Implications of Market Valuation

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Q&A | ETFs vs Mutual Funds, Asset Location, Sizing Focused Factor Strategies, Direct Indexing

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Investor Q&A | GameStop, Value Spreads, AI Backtesting and the Market as a Casino

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Ten Lessons from Two Decades of Managing Money

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Lessons From 24 Market Experts | What We Learned From the 12 Hour PNL For a Purpose Livestream

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Fact or Fiction: Inflation, Taxes and That $4 Cup of Coffee

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The Double-Edged Sword of Trend Following

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The Importance of Managing Drawdowns in Retirement

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An In Depth Look at Low Volatility Investing

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Lessons from Danny Kahneman | Investing in Practice Rather Than Theory

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Understanding the Measurement of Inflation

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10 Lessons From Warren Buffett's Annual Letter

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Ten Simple Lessons from Fama and French

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The S&P 500 Is Highly Concentrated | Should You Be Worried?

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David Einhorn Says the Market is Broken | We Debate Whether He is Right

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The Intentional Investor | Justin Castelli

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The Elusive Definition of Risk | And How to Manage It

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Private Investing for the Average Investor | The Pros and Cons of Evergreen and Interval Funds

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Fact or Fiction: Limitations of the 60-40, Dave Ramsey's 8% Rule, Factor Investing, AI and More

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The Key Criteria to Look at When Evaluating Active ETFs

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Lessons from Launching (and Shutting Down) a Small-Cap Value ETF

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Lessons from the Rise and Fall (And Rise Again?) of ARK

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Nine Investing and Life Lessons From 2023

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Our 2024 Market Forecast | And Why You Shouldn't Listen to It

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Four Ways Value Investors Can Use Momentum

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Evaluating Alternatives to the 60-40 Portfolio

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The Characteristics of a Good Investment Process - And How to Know When to Change It

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Year-End Investing and Planning Strategies | Portfolio Rebalancing, Tax Loss Harvesting and More

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What Investors Need to Know About Momentum Investing

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An Inside Look at the Quality and Low Volatility Factors

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Breaking Down Popular Value ETFs

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How Couples Can Have Better Conversations About Money with Heather and Doug Boneparth

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Is Value Investing Dead? A Quant and a Financial Planner Discuss

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Understanding the Business of Franchising with Ben Terrill

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Investor Q&A | Going to Cash, Laddering Bonds, International Diversification, Narrow Leadership

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Roth Conversions | What Investors Need to Know

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The Many Sides of Diversification | Spreading Your Bets Across Stocks, Factors and Asset Classes

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A Detailed Look at Direct Indexing

116

Two Quants and a Financial Planner Talk Inflation

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Breaking Down the Greatness of Warren Buffett

118

Behind the Curtain of 401K Plans with Law Professors Ian Ayres and Quinn Curtis

119

Untangling the Challenging Rules of Inherited IRAs

120

A Quant and a Financial Planner Discuss Factor Investing

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The Truth About Market Forecasts (And Dollar Cost Averaging)

122

A Young Financial Planner Shares His Most Important Insights for Early Career Investors

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The Many Facets of Discipline in Investing

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A Financial Planner's View of Factor Investing

125

The Basics of Estate Planning

126

Lessons From the Epsilon Connect Conference

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Five Major Issues on Investors' Minds: Inflation, Recession, Valuations, AI Stocks, Geopolitics

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Aligning Your Assets with Your Purpose: Lessons from Peter Mladina

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Annuities: Useful Financial Planning Tool or Just a Bunch of Shady Steak Dinners?

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Will ChatGPT Replace Financial Planners?

131

The Challenge of Understanding Your True Risk Tolerance

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Interpreting the Key Lessons from Great Investors

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How Regular Investors Should Think About Alternatives to Stocks and Bonds

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Lessons for Investors in Their Later Retirement Years

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Using Variable Withdrawal Rate Strategies in Retirement

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Using Monte Carlo Simulation in Retirement Planning

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The Importance of Asset Location

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Understanding the 4% Rule and Safe Withdrawal Rates

139

Lessons For Investors Approaching Retirement

140

Retirement Planning in Your Prime Earning Years

141

A Detailed Look at FDIC and SIPC Insurance and the Protections Available for Investors

142

What You Need to Know About Retirement Early in Your Career

143

A Primer on College Planning and Saving

144

The Basics of Goals-Based Planning