The Rational Reminder Podcast

Episode 275: Live from Future Proof 2023: Decoding Financial Decision-Making with Hal Hershfield

Episode 274: A Live 5-Year Rational Reminder Retrospective (and Creating Superfans with Brittany Hodak)

Episode 273: Professor Samuel Hartzmark: Asset Pricing, Behavioural Finance, and Sustainability Rankings

Episode 272: Rob Carrick: Canadian Personal Finance in 2023

Episode 271: Expected Returns of the AI Revolution (plus People are Lying to you About Money w/ Anthony Walsh)

Episode 270: Victor Haghani and James White: The Missing Billionaires

Episode 269: Preet Banerjee: A multi-dimensional analysis of the value of financial advice

Episode 268: Itzhak Ben-David: ETFs, Investor Behavior, and Hedge Fund Fees

Episode 267: The (Expected) Cost of Pessimism (Plus Matthew Dicks on the Value of Storytelling)

Episode 266: Prof. Cass Sunstein: Practical Reason in Ordinary Life

Episode 265: 5% HISA... for the Long-run? (Plus Stoicism with Michael Tremblay)

Episode 264: Pim van Vliet: The Volatility Effect, Revisited

Episode 263: A Tribute to Harry Markowitz with Alex Potts & 7 Steps to a Better Portfolio with Edward Goodfellow

Episode 262: Francisco Gomes: Consumption and Portfolio Choice over the Life Cycle

Episode 261: Structured Products with Felix Fattinger and Petra Vokata & Jill Schlesinger

Episode 260: Prof. James Choi: Practical Finance

Economic theory frequently diverges from real-world personal finance because it relies on assumptions of perfect rationality, neglecting cognitive limitations, self-control failures, and emotional barriers like finance phobia. Yale finance professor James Choi advocates for "practical finance," a framework designed to ...

Episode 259: Comprehensive Overview: Estimating Expected Returns

Episode 258: Prof. Meir Statman: Financial Decisions for Normal People

The podcast explores behavioral finance, particularly how it explains the wants and needs of normal investors versus rational ones. Meir Statman, a renowned professor of finance and pioneer in behavioral finance, explains how the field has evolved through three generations, moving from identifying investor errors to un...

Episode 257: Giorgio Ugazio (Mr. RIP): Life Design, In Progress

Episode 256: Prof. Hal Hershfield: Your Future Self