Thanks it really helps open up some angles looking at index funds I didn't think of… nearly fainted when she said 'I read all the prospectuses of US index funds"

Her descirption of the right hand left hand benchmark builders and fund managers made me think of the relationship between banks and credit rating houses from the financial crisis. Its not a perfect analogy but the ground work is there for investors to get rolled by some wall street types. A good warning to never get complacent with your investing decisions! P.S. thats a smart lady and great guest

What a phenomenal interview. Thanks for hosting and posting this marvel

Probably the best podcast so far. Super interesting and great questions.

@louisjaxtyn7409

2 жыл бұрын

I dont mean to be offtopic but does anyone know a tool to log back into an instagram account..? I was stupid forgot the login password. I love any help you can offer me.

@louisjaxtyn7409

2 жыл бұрын

@Mitchell Russell Thanks for your reply. I got to the site thru google and I'm in the hacking process now. Seems to take a while so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

@louisjaxtyn7409

2 жыл бұрын

@Mitchell Russell It worked and I now got access to my account again. Im so happy! Thank you so much, you really help me out !

@mitchellrussell1261

2 жыл бұрын

@Louis Jaxtyn No problem :D

Don't know why you guys headline show as investment advice for Canadians. I'm from U.K and love your show and informative interviews. Think this stuff applicable to investors where ever they are. Spread the net wider chaps 🙂 lots of people would benefit from it

@cameronpassmore1561

3 жыл бұрын

We agree with you. Almost 50% of listeners are from outside Canada. Glad you find some value from the RR.

@labmq

3 жыл бұрын

We agree from Brazil 🇧🇷

@gocoronago5853

3 жыл бұрын

From Singapore, agreed

The S&p 500 serves as a standard that makes comparison easy across various benchmarks. If you can buy it at 3 bps (VOO) then all the factor funds and others that use far more obscure benchmarks at a (usually) much higher cost have to justify their performance. As a standard, it’s easy to follow, readily available to even the most obtuse investor and tracks the US total stock market almost perfectly. While not technically “passive” it’s useful and anyone straying from it should be made to justify why it’s not a useful measurement: you’ll likely find that they’re selling a less liquid and higher fee product that over time will likely result in poorer performance

@itsjacob7239

3 жыл бұрын

If the S&P500 isn't passive, is VTI Total Stock Market index passive? They've had almost exactly the same performance

@rickyaz8640

3 жыл бұрын

@@itsjacob7239 exactly. Once you get enough holdings (for diversity) it just becomes a question of scale. Like a 500 person choir versus a 25000 person auditorium: they end up sounding pretty much the same. VTI is the entire (US) market, the 500 is 80% and mimics the whole. The problem is when certain funds want to be measured against something that is not the entire market, for whatever reason, you find they’re hiding something in the name of ignoring the “ bad stuff” in the whole market and charging a fee for it. So you pay for factor fund management and realize after a few years they underperformed the entire market

@og7952

3 жыл бұрын

@@rickyaz8640 they are 80% of the market, but not 80% of the stocks in number, that's the difference. So you miss on small factor.

@bjohns347347

3 жыл бұрын

@@itsjacob7239 past performance does not guarantee future results. I would recommend watching the Ben Felix video titled “investing in the s&p 500”. It might change your mind.

Really good episode!

Good discussion 👌

Thumbs up! Keep churning! 😀

Brilliant woman and brilliant guest. Thanks. Factors tilting (a lot in the moment) for me ! Shall live and see.

What's up with the doubling of Cameron's audio?

Great academic discussion. However like a lot of academic exercises it seems a bit pointless. What's the take home for a real investor? It would have been better had you provided a practical solution to the problem (if there is a problem?). You could have simply asked the good professor where she invests her own money. Does knowing the things she does help her take any significantly interesting investment decisions? Otherwise I don't see the point of this - atleast not yet.

@JamyOats

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the first section about not being satisfied to treat the s&p500 as a benchmark felt a bit like nickpicking to me. Sure, 500 rather than 600 is an arbitrary cutoff, but it's not going to make any meaningful difference to the number.

Great content as usual. Any advice for an incoming Intl. student (finance) in Canada? My first goal is CFA I.

What is your camera set-up? Looks solid

(Almost) everybody is faking confidence. Cut the almost.

@tiendoan1333

3 жыл бұрын

We ought to behave as if we have confidence. Act confidence but acknowledge uncertainty

What is the definition of a “high net worth investor”? Is it a a hundred thousand, a million, or a higher dollar amount? It would be interesting to see what the crypto investor is thinking and how they are behaving in the recent surge and correction. It seems many crypto investors are recently “high net worth”.

Sometimes academia just overcomplicates a very simple concept. I think this is one of them.

19:08

#1 :)

Dear GOD Ben is such a handsome man.

@TheUnlistedOne

3 жыл бұрын

Put it back in your pants dude

43:33 Too much listening to Dave Ramsey tout “growth stock mutual funds!!”

Outdated Academia advice from someone with barely any real world trading/investing/ capital markets/M&A experience. The world has changed (see Gamestop/Bitcoin, Tesla in the S&P). How about interview successful young people in the trenches in M&A/Finance/stocks/ crypto that have created generational wealth