4.6 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Rob Arnott, Chairman and founder of Research Affiliates, discusses his most recent paper: The COVID-19 Crash and the Abandonment of the Pensioner. He is on my must read list of investing writers.
We discuss why the US Pension Crisis is such a huge problem, how COVID exasperated the problem, the state of the states pension obligations, which states are well off and which are in trouble, and the possible solutions to solve the problem.
For more information, visit the show notes at https://moneytreepodcast.com/pension-crisis-rob-arnott
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast. |
0:04.5 | Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life. |
0:11.1 | Hello, smart money tree podcast listeners. |
0:13.8 | Welcome to this week's episode of Money Tree Investing Podcast. |
0:16.9 | My name is Kirk Chisholm and I will be your host today. |
0:20.0 | So today is a special episode. |
0:21.9 | We have Rob are not on the show today. |
0:24.3 | How are you doing today, Rob? |
0:25.3 | I'm doing just fine. |
0:26.8 | I'm really excited about this show because for me, this is a treat. |
0:30.7 | I love reading Rob's research and I think we're really lucky to have him on the show. |
0:35.4 | He actually wrote an interesting paper recently |
0:38.2 | called the COVID crash and the abandonment of the pensioner. And I've mentioned this in the show |
0:43.9 | in the last bunch of weeks about the pension problem. And we wanted to bring Rob on to talk about |
0:49.4 | that. Rob, if you're not familiar with him, he's a founder and chairman of the board of research affiliates. |
0:55.0 | It's a global asset manager dedicated to profoundly impact the global investing community through insight and products. |
1:02.4 | He's been referred to as the godfather of smart beta for his pioneering work on the fundamental index. |
1:08.9 | Rob has published more than 130 articles in journals such as |
1:12.2 | the Journal of Portfolio Management, Harvard Business Review, Financial Analyst Journal, where he served |
1:17.7 | as editor-in-chief from 2002-2006. As you can tell, Rob is a very seasoned expert when it comes |
1:24.4 | to research in the investment space, and a lot of the institutions look to him |
1:29.6 | and his firm for their research. So if that gives you any indication of who we have in the show here, |
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