Market Simulations & Financial Planning | #411 (John Yang)
In this episode, Ben Felix and Braden Warwick unpack the surprisingly complex world of expected return modeling and why it matters so much for retirement projections, portfolio construction, and finan...
28 Touko 1h 17min
Episode 410: The State of Investing in 2026
In this episode, we are joined by Shelly Antoniewicz, Chief Economist at the Investment Company Institute (ICI), for a data-rich exploration of the modern fund industry. Shelly walks us through the st...
21 Touko 58min
Episode 409: Investment Banker - What Private Equity Doesn't Tell You
In this episode, we are joined by Jeff Hooke, former investment banking, private equity, and private debt executive turned academic critic of alternative investments, for a rigorous and provocative ex...
14 Touko 1h 15min
Episode 408: Elroy Dimson – Investing & Optimism
In this episode, we are joined by Elroy Dimson, Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School and co-creator of the Dimson-Marsh-Staunton (DMS) dataset, for a sweeping and deeply insightful ...
7 Touko 1h 14min
Episode 407: Michael Kothakota - The Shape of Financial Planning
In this episode, we are joined by Michael Kothakota for a deeply technical and thought-provoking conversation on interdependent integrative financial planning theory. Drawing from his background in ac...
30 Huhti 1h 18min
Episode 406: When Massive Private Companies Go Public
In this episode, the Rational Reminder team unpacks the mechanics and implications of mega IPOs like SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic potentially entering public indices. They explore how index funds han...
23 Huhti 1h 10min
Episode 405: Timothy Edwards - Inside S&P DJ Indices
What if the decades-long debate between active and passive investing wasn't really a debate—but a data problem? In this episode, Ben Felix and Cameron Passmore are joined by Tim Edwards, Managing Dire...
16 Huhti 1h 3min
Episode 404: The Finance Paper that Changed Everything
What if the way we think about investing—and expected returns—was fundamentally incomplete? In this episode, Ben Felix and Dan Bortolotti take a deep dive into one of the most influential papers in fi...
9 Huhti 1h 3min
