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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Friday Querisode

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.5811 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Don flies solo for a Friday Q&A, fielding questions on switching into financial services careers, the risks and reality of “enhanced” direct indexing strategies, whether newer Avantis ETFs add real value, and a classic diversification debate sparked by Markowitz and Bessembinder research. He emphasizes that financial advising is primarily a sales-driven business, warns against overly complex and leveraged investment strategies being pushed by Wall Street, reinforces the importance of broa...

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0:00.0

Your guides to a really great financial future.

0:09.0

Tom and Don are talking real money.

0:12.2

Well, it's the best day of the week, right?

0:14.9

It's Friday.

0:16.0

Hi, everybody.

0:16.6

I'm Don McDonald.

0:18.0

This is Talking Real Money, the podcast.

0:22.8

And look, it's Tom calling.

0:29.2

All right. I got rid of him. Literally, he calls like, I'm seconds into recording, and he calls.

0:34.7

It looks like we might get a really cool interview. Really cool interview. This is going to be really fun. We don't do very many interviews, but this one is worth doing. I'm not going to tell you anything more about it than keep listening because if we get this interview, I'm going to love it. I'm going to love it. And I don't love doing interviews. This one's going to be really fun. And I think many of you will love it with the exception of like, I don't know a couple of you. We might get another bad review from those two.

0:56.2

Anyway, so, welcome to the Friday edition of Talking Real Money, and if you're new to the area,

1:01.9

you'll know that the Friday podcast means questions from you and answers from me.

1:11.2

That's how we do it.

1:12.8

And how do you send those questions you ask?

1:15.7

Well, it's way too easy.

1:17.8

All you have to do is go to talking realmoney.com and then click on the ask a question.

1:22.5

And then in the lower left-hand corner is a little microphone button.

1:26.0

You click on that and you speak into your

1:28.5

mic on your technological device, whatever that might be. That's it. That's the whole thing.

1:35.7

Just go to talking real money.com, click, ask a question, and then speak it. You must speak it

1:40.3

to put it on the Friday podcast. If you type it, we don't know where it goes for sure.

1:45.3

We just know it goes towards Tom's goal of deforestation. Now, without further ado,

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