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The Long View

Morningstar, Christine Benz - Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning, Ben Johnson - Head of Client Solutions, Amy Arnott - Portfolio Strategistthe-long-view.simplecast.com
Empowering long-term investors with actionable insights on retirement, personal finance, and portfolio strategy. Hosts Christine Benz, Amy Arnott, and Ben Johnson talk with influential leaders in finance and investing every Wednesday.
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Episodes

Callie Cox: A Student Teacher of Financial Markets

Today’s guest on The Long View is Callie Cox. Callie is the chief market strategist at Ritholtz Wealth Management, where she helps the firm’s clients make sense of markets and suss out signal in the noise. Callie’s clear, relatable approach to market commentary blends deep macroeconomic market insights with an understanding of investor behavior. Before joining Ritholtz Wealth Management in 2024, Callie was an investment analyst at eToro and previously worked in research roles at Ally, LPL Financ...

Nov 11, 202550 minEp. 345

Beth Pinsker: Lessons From ‘My Mother’s Money’

Our guest on the podcast today is Beth Pinsker. She’s a certified financial planner and the author of a new book called My Mother’s Money: A Guide to Financial Caregiving . Beth is also a veteran financial journalist. She’s currently a financial planning columnist at MarketWatch and has also worked at Reuters, Fidelity, and Walletpop.com. Prior to covering personal finance, she was a film critic and entertainment business reporter, writing for Entertainment Weekly , The Dallas Morning News , and...

Nov 04, 202554 minEp. 344

Doug and Heather Boneparth: How Couples Can Find Financial Harmony

Today on the podcast, we’re going to be chatting with Heather and Doug Boneparth. They’re co-authors of a new book called Money Together: How to Find Fairness in Your Relationship and Become an Unstoppable Financial Team . Heather and Doug know a little something about money in relationships. As you may have guessed, they’re married. Heather worked as a lawyer for more than a decade before joining the family business as Bone Fide Wealth’s Director of Business and Legal Affairs. She also co-autho...

Oct 28, 202555 minEp. 343

Carl Richards: The Case for ‘Deeply Human’ Financial Advice

Hi, and welcome to The Long View . I’m Christine Benz, director of personal finance and retirement planning for Morningstar. Today on the podcast we welcome back Carl Richards, who’s the author of a new book called Your Money: Reimagining Wealth in 101 Simple Sketches . His previous books, The Behavior Gap and The One-Page Financial Plan , were both bestsellers. Carl started the Sketch Guide column in The New York Times and it ran weekly for a decade. Carl is a certified financial planner, and h...

Oct 21, 202557 minEp. 342

Mike Pyle: Looking for Uncorrelated Sources of Return

Our guest this week is Mike Pyle of BlackRock. Mike is managing director and deputy head of the Portfolio Management Group, which encompasses BlackRock’s fundamental and systematic investing teams across fixed income, equities, and multi-asset. He has also served as BlackRock’s chief investment strategist and portfolio manager of the Tactical Asset Allocation Team. Prior to and in between stints at BlackRock, Mike served extensively in government. He held economic policy roles in both the Obama ...

Oct 14, 202545 minEp. 341

Barry Ritholtz: ‘How Not to Invest’

Today on the podcast, we’re welcoming Barry Ritholtz. He’s co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, a firm that was launched in 2013. He’s the creator and host of Masters in Business, one of the earliest finance-related podcasts. He also regularly posts on The Big Picture , where he’s been covering everything investing related since 2003. He is the author of Bailout Nation, and his latest book, How Not to Invest: The Ideas, Numbers, and Behaviors That Des...

Oct 07, 20251 hr 6 minEp. 340

Kerry Hannon: What Gen Xers Need to Know About Their Retirement Plans

Our guest on the podcast today is Kerry Hannon. Kerry is a senior columnist and on-air expert for Yahoo Finance and writes about retirement, jobs, career transitions, entrepreneurship, leadership, and personal finance. She has written 14 books about retirement, careers, and personal finance and is co-author of a new book, Retirement Bites: A Gen X Guide to Securing Your Financial Future . Kerry is a former columnist and contributor for The New York Times , MarketWatch, Forbes, PBS, and AARP. She...

Sep 30, 202551 minEp. 339

Dana Anspach and Fritz Gilbert: ‘This Is What a Joyful Retirement Could Feel Like’

Today on the podcast, we welcome back two previous guests. Dana Anspach is the founder and CEO of the financial planning firm, Sensible Money, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, and she has been practicing as a financial planner since 1995. Dana is also the author of the lecture series “How to Plan for the Perfect Retirement,” available on The Great Courses, and the author of the books Control Your Retirement Destiny and Social Security Sense . She has begun blogging about her own retirement journey ...

Sep 23, 202559 minEp. 338

Larry Jacobson: ‘The Good Things in Our Life Are What Get in the Way of Great Things’

Our guest on the podcast today is author and retirement coach, Larry Jacobson. Larry is the author of a book called Your Ideal Retirement Workbook, A Step-by-Step Guide to Retiring With Purpose and Fulfillment , which coaches its readers on the steps to take to find purpose and identity in retirement. He embarked on a career as a retirement coach after stepping away from corporate life, and he sold his business in order to sail around the world. Background LarryJacobson.com Your Ideal Retirement...

Sep 16, 202548 minEp. 337

Scott Bondurant: Why Mean Reversion Means Your Portfolio Should Have More Stocks

Our guest on the podcast today is Scott Bondurant. Scott is the founder and chief investment officer of Bondurant Investment Advisory, a registered investment advisor based in the Chicago suburbs. He is also an adjunct professor at Northwestern University, where he teaches an undergraduate course on the history of investing. He recently published a white paper about the importance of incorporating mean reversion in financial planning and portfolio construction, which we’ll be discussing in this ...

Sep 09, 202553 minEp. 336

Joe Davis: How to Capitalize on ‘Megatrends’

Listen Now: Listen and subscribe to Morningstar’s The Long View from your mobile device: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Our guest on the podcast today is Joe Davis, global chief economist at Vanguard and global head of the firm’s Investment Strategy Group. He chairs the firm’s Strategic Asset Allocation Committee, which governs multi-asset class investment solutions. And he is a member of the senior portfolio management team of Vanguard’s Fixed Income Group. Joe is the author of a new book called Comi...

Sep 02, 202556 minEp. 335

Neil Shearing: The World Isn’t Deglobalizing; It’s Fracturing

Our guest this week is Neil Shearing. Neil is Group Chief Economist at Capital Economics and the author of a new book, The Fractured Age: How the Return of Geopolitics Will Splinter the Global Economy . In addition to managing a team of economists and serving as a voice in the investment community, Neil is an associate fellow at Chatham House, an international affairs think tank. He joined Capital Economics in 2006 from the United Kingdom’s Treasury Ministry. He holds economics degrees from the ...

Aug 26, 202547 minEp. 334

Lawrence Lam: ‘The Types of Companies That Attract Me Are Founder-Led and Profitable’

Hi, and welcome to The Long View . I’m Dan Lefkovitz, strategist for Morningstar Indexes. Our guest this week is Lawrence Lam. Lawrence is managing director and founder of Lumenary Investment Management based in Melbourne, Australia, a firm that specializes in founder-led companies globally. Lawrence is also the author of a new book called The Founder Effect . Lawrence has also been an investment banker, a derivatives consultant, and a financial regulator. He holds degrees from the University of...

Aug 19, 202549 minEp. 333

The Biggest Risk Investors Face Today

Today on The Long View, we’re featuring an episode from another Morningstar podcast, The Morning Filter , which you can subscribe to on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Usually, Susan Dziubinski sits down every Monday morning with Morningstar’s chief U.S. market strategist Dave Sekera to talk about the week ahead. But we’ve got something a bit different for you on the podcast this week. Instead of our usual deep dive into the market and stocks, we’re taking a step back to look a...

Aug 18, 202539 min

Nick Murray: ‘The Investor Is Hardwired to Be His Own Worst Enemy’

Our guest on the podcast today is Nick Murray. Nick has written several influential books about investing and financial advice, including The Game of Numbers, Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth, and his latest, This Time Isn’t Different. His newsletter for financial advisors is called “Nick Murray Interactive,” and he also frequently leads seminars for financial advice professionals. Nick started out at EF Hutton, then moved on to Shearson and eventually to Bear Stearns. Since then, he has built h...

Aug 12, 202553 minEp. 329

Charley Ellis: Indexing Is a Marvelous Gift

Background Bio “ Charley Ellis: Why Active Investing Is Still a Loser’s Game ,” The Long View podcast, Morningstar.com, May 27, 2020. Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Guide to Very Long-Term Investing Winning the Loser’s Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing Index Investing and ETFs “ Stock Pickers Are on a Record Run With Investors. Don’t Be Fooled, Says Index Fund Guru ,” by Jason Gewirtz, cnbc.com, Feb. 14, 2025. “ Investment Costs Make a Huge Difference ,” by Robin Powell, ifa...

Aug 05, 202555 minEp. 332

Cliff Asness: ‘The Problem Was Never Beta. The Problem Was Paying Alpha Fees for Beta’

Today on the podcast we welcome back Cliff Asness. Cliff is the founder, managing principal, and chief investment officer at AQR Capital Management. Cliff writes often about investing and financial matters on AQR’s website and has been a prolific researcher throughout his career, with his contributions appearing in many of the leading scholarly journals, including the Journal of Portfolio Management , Financial Analyst’s Journal , the Journal of Finance , and the Journal of Financial Economics ....

Jul 29, 202554 minEp. 331

Nick Maggiulli: Climbing the Wealth Ladder

Today on the podcast we welcome back Nick Maggiulli. He’s the author of a new book called The Wealth Ladder: Proven Strategies for Every Step of Your Financial Life . His first book was called Just Keep Buying . In addition, Nick writes a wonderful blog called Of Dollars and Data , which is focused on the intersection between data and personal finance. In his day job, Nick is the Chief Operating Officer and Data Scientist at Ritholtz Wealth Management. He received his bachelor’s degree in econom...

Jul 22, 202554 minEp. 330

Brian Selmo: ‘Winning by Not Losing’

Our guest this week is Brian Selmo. Brian is a portfolio manager and research director at First Pacific Advisors. Since 2013, he has comanaged the FPA Crescent Fund with Steve Romick and Mark Landecker, and in 2021, he became comanager of the FPA Global Equity ETF. Both strategies are highly regarded by Morningstar’s Manager Research Team. Before joining FPA in 2008, Brian worked as an analyst at Third Avenue Management and at Rothschild, and was founder and portfolio manager of Eagle Lake Capit...

Jul 15, 202554 minEp. 328

Salim Ramji: The Industry Uses Complexity As a Mask to Charge More

We’re taping this podcast at the Morningstar Investment Conference, where we’re delighted to be joined by Vanguard CEO Salim Ramji, who joined Vanguard just about a year ago. Prior to joining Vanguard, Salim was a senior leader at BlackRock, where his most recent position was as global head of iShares and index investing. Before that, he was a senior partner at McKinsey & Company. Salim started his career as a lawyer at Clifford Chance in London and Hong Kong. Background Bio Vanguard Announc...

Jul 08, 202531 minEp. 327

JL Collins: The (Still) Simple Path to Wealth

For this holiday week, we’re resurfacing one of our favorite episodes from 2025 so far. Author JL Collins talking about the new edition of his bestselling book, The Simple Path to Wealth . We hope that you’ll enjoy the episode, and we’ll be back with a brand-new one next week. In the meantime, happy Fourth of July. Hi, and welcome to The Long View . I’m Christine Benz, director of personal finance and retirement planning for Morningstar. Today on the podcast, we welcome back author and blogger J...

Jul 01, 202557 minEp. 321

Eric Simonson: The Case for Flat-Fee Financial Advice

Our guest on the podcast today is Eric Simonson. Eric is CEO of Abundo Wealth, an advice-only financial planning firm he founded in 2019. In addition, he heads up the Advice-Only Network, which is a platform dedicated to helping consumers find advice-only financial planners. Before starting Abundo, Eric was a financial advisor and managing director of Ameriprise Financial. He’s a certified financial planner and received bachelor’s degrees in finance and English from the University of Minnesota. ...

Jun 24, 202558 minEp. 324

Rosanne Corcoran: Caring and Support for Family Caregivers

Our guest on the podcast today is Rosanne Corcoran. Rosanne is the Director of Content Strategy for Daughterhood.org, which is focused on creating community and providing resources to family caregivers. Rosanne also hosts a wonderful podcast called Daughterhood, the Podcast . In addition, she facilitates support groups and meetings for caregivers and has experience as a family caregiver herself. Background Bio Daughterhood.org Daughterhood the Podcast: For Caregivers Anne Tumlinson Medicare/Care...

Jun 17, 202553 minEp. 326

The Morning Filter: 5 Rallying Stocks to Buy in June While They’re Still Undervalued

Today on The Long View, we’re featuring an episode from another Morningstar podcast, The Morning Filter , which you can subscribe to on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Every Monday, Susan Dziubinski sits down with Morningstar Chief US Market Strategist Dave Sekera to discuss one thing that’s on his radar this week, one new piece of Morningstar research, and a few stock picks or pans for the week ahead. On this week’s episode, Dave and Susan discuss the likelihood of the Federal...

Jun 16, 202541 min

Paul Ashworth: ‘Forecasting Is Difficult at the Best of Times, and This Is not the Best of Times’

Hi, and welcome to The Long View . I’m Dan Lefkovitz, strategist for Morningstar Indexes. Our guest this week is Dr. Paul Ashworth. Paul serves as Chief North America Economist at Capital Economics. He joined the London-based research firm in 2001 from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research after taking degrees in economics and mathematics at Strathclyde and Warwick in the United Kingdom and completing a Ph.D. in monetary policy. In 2010, Paul was named Wall Street Journal Foreca...

Jun 10, 202534 minEp. 325

Ben Felix: Rational Reminders for Good Financial Decisions

Our guest on the podcast today is Ben Felix. Ben is chief investment officer for PWL Capital, a Canadian wealth management firm. He also co-hosts the Rational Reminder podcast and is the host of a YouTube channel that covers finance and investing-related topics. He joined PWL Capital in 2013 after completing a degree in mechanical engineering as well as an MBA. He is a CFA charter holder and a CFP professional. Ben, welcome to The Long View . Background Bio PWL Capital Rational Reminder podcast ...

Jun 03, 202552 minEp. 323

Jason Zweig: Revisiting ‘The Intelligent Investor’

On this week’s episode, we’re pleased to welcome back returning guest, Jason Zweig. Jason writes the “Intelligent Investor” column in The Wall Street Journal and has published a number of popular and critically acclaimed books on investing and finance, including Your Money and Your Brain and The Devil’s Financial Dictionary . In his most recent project, Jason published an update of Ben Graham’s classic book, The Intelligent Investor . And we’ve devoted a portion of today’s episode to delving int...

May 27, 202555 minEp. 322

Arunma Oteh: ‘A Lot of Innovations That Are Very Important to Society Have Come Out of Development Banks’

Hi, and welcome to The Long View . I’m Dan Lefkovitz, strategist for Morningstar Indexes. Our guest this week is Arunma Oteh, currently of the University of Oxford Saïd Business School. Arunma is a former treasurer of the World Bank and also served in various leadership roles in the African Development Bank. In 2010, she became Director General of Nigeria Securities and Exchange Commission, and she led that apex regulator for several years following the global financial crisis. She writes about ...

May 13, 202545 minEp. 320

Daniel Rasmussen: ‘Be Very Wary of Illiquid Asset Classes’

Hi, and welcome to The Long View . I’m Dan Lefkovitz, strategist for Morningstar Indexes. Our guest this week is Daniel Rasmussen. He’s the founder and portfolio manager of Verdad Advisers, a hedge fund. Before starting Verdad, Dan worked at Bain Capital Private Equity and Bridgewater Associates. He’s a member of the investment committee of the trustees of donations of the Episcopal Church and he’s a contributor to The Wall Street Journal . Dan is author of the new book, The Humble Investor: How...

May 06, 202553 minEp. 319

David Booth: ‘Usually the Great Ideas Start Out as Small Ideas and Then You Build on Them’

Our guest on the podcast today is David Booth. He’s the Chairman of Dimensional Fund Advisors, a firm he founded in 1981. David led Dimensional as CEO and later Co-CEO until 2017, when he stepped back from the daily management of the firm. David helped create one of the world’s first index funds in the 1970s and launched the first passively managed small-company strategy in the early 1980s. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1968 and a master’s degree in business in 1969 from the Un...

Apr 29, 202549 minEp. 316
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