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Trust, But Verify
A CFP mark reflects meaningful education, but it does not guarantee clean disciplinary history, fee-only advice, or an unwavering fiduciary relations…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
The 11% Trapdoor
An 11.15% coupon sounds irresistible—until you read the trapdoors. Don and Tom unpack a listener’s BNP Paribas auto-callable structured note and ask …
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Stay Calm
Dimensional Fund Advisors founder David Booth joins Don and Tom to explain why better investing begins with accepting uncertainty instead of pretendi…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
No Reward Without Risk
Risk and reward are inseparable, even when an investment pitch makes the danger hard to see. Don and Tom explain why higher expected returns require …
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Find the Robot
It’s Friday Q&A—with a small experiment. Don slips one AI-generated voice among the listener questions and challenges you to identify the robot, with…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
The Casino Next Door
Robinhood says it wants to be everything to investors—but its fastest-growing attractions look a lot like a casino. Don and Tom examine prediction ma…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
The Market Hasn’t Sung Yet
The market’s long winning streak has investors wondering whether a crash is waiting in the wings. Don and Tom look at the S&P 500’s run, the lost dec…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
The Year of the Stock Picker. Again.
Wall Street has declared yet another “year of the stock picker.” Don and Tom examine Morningstar and SPIVA data showing how few active large-cap fund…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Yesterday’s News, Today’s Price
Rule Seven of Financial Physics says there is no new news: by the time public information reaches you, the market has already reacted.
Don and Tom exp…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
The Jester’s Portfolio
Friday’s question pile ranges from the safest bond fund around to the harder question of what retirement is actually for. Don sorts through the choic…
4 weeks, 1 day ago