
Simple, but Not Easy
Hello, and welcome to Simple, but Not Easy, where we turn complicated financial developments into actionable ideas. This is a podcast from Morningstar’s Wealth Group, where we equip financial advisors with our best ideas to remove friction and help clients achieve goals.
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2023 Outlook: Inflation, Recession, Valuations, and Retirement
What are the positive client messages we can share l...
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Jan 3 2023 33m
An Inside Look at Direct Indexing
Direct indexing is becoming a key addition to financ...
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Dec 22 2022 40m
“Advisors Will Want to Run a More Profitable, Growing, Scalable, Practice” - Daniel Needham to Financial Advisors
Across the globe, the financial advice community con...
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Nov 21 2022 37m
Latest Research on Stagflation & Market Impacts
Stagflation is now on the radar for financial adviso...
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Nov 1 2022 30m
Investing in Today's Volatile Markets: New Season, 100th Episode
Investors can become confused in today’s challenging...
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Oct 17 2022 41m
Episode 100 Coming Next: But First, Listen To Our Most Downloaded Episode So Far
Stay tuned for our 100th episode up next! We are rei...
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Oct 4 2022 1h 3m
Behavioral Science & Tips in Volatile Markets
"The most important quality for an investor is tempe...
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Aug 23 2022 25m
Getting Personal: Getting to Know How Advisors Get to Know Their Clients (Episode 13 Rebroadcast)
Getting personal might elicit nervousness, but why d...
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Jun 27 2022 36m
What Does Good Forecasting Look Like—and Why Are Weather Forecasters So Good at It? (Episode 65 Rebroadcast)
Good decisions are often built on good forecasts. Bu...
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Jun 13 2022 26m
Our Insights on the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting
We present our thoughts on the recent Berkshire Hath...
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May 30 2022 55m
Investing Amidst Uncertainty
We’ve got the same thing on our mind as the rest of ...
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May 16 2022 1h 3m
Is Dollar-Cost Averaging Irrational? Compared to What? (Episode 30 Rebroadcast)
Terry Hawkins, sales manager at Morningstar Investme...
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May 2 2022 31m
Dump the Dow: Why What You Pay Attention to Matters (Episode 14 Rebroadcast)
In this episode, John Owens and Ryan Murphy talk abo...
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Apr 18 2022 28m
Demonstrating ESG Commitments for Advisors and Investors (Episode 74 Rebroadcast)
In this rebroadcast of an episode from 2021, Paul Ar...
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Mar 21 2022 37m
Fear of the Unknown: Inflation and Rising Rates
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear...
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Mar 7 2022 53m
Key Investing and Behavioral Messages for Advisor-Client Meetings (Episode 51 Rebroadcast)
In this rebroadcast of an episode from 2020, we expl...
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Feb 21 2022 38m
Risk, Downside Protection, and the Goal Mindset
Short-term worries versus long-term goals—which are ...
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Feb 8 2022 1h 1m
Overconfident? Cognitively Rigid? How Investors Can Make Better Decisions by Dealing With Emotions and Biases (Epis...
"[W]e can’t avoid the reality that we’re experiencin...
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Jan 25 2022 28m
2022 Outlook
Rising Interest Rates. New COVID-19 variants. Inflat...
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Jan 11 2022 58m
ESG in 2022: a Simple, but Not Easy Short
Environmental, social, and governance. More commonly...
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Dec 21 2021 20m
Easing Inflation Worries
Inflation. It's showing up in headlines and in conve...
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Nov 30 2021 57m
Sizing up Risks and Opportunities in Chinese Equities
China is a key talking point in the investment commu...
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Sep 27 2021 28m
The Potential Impact of Corporate Tax Hikes on Equities
Changes in the corporate tax rate can have large, on...
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Sep 13 2021 38m
The Sustainability Stress Test
ESG investing, which focusses on an investment’s env...
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Sep 7 2021 49m
Our Global Convictions Following Q2 2021
With stocks reaching new highs and companies borrowi...
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Jul 28 2021 40m