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Welcome to the Longview. I'm Jeff Patak, Global Director of Manager Research for Morningstar Research Services.

And I'm Christine Ben's, Director of Personal Finance for Morningstar.

Our guest in this week's episode of The Longview is none other than Josh Brown, CEO of Ritholt's

wealth management. Josh's story is unique and inspiring. He began his career as a broker,

but grew disillusion with the industry's skewed incentives

and practices, eventually pursuing a career as an independent registered investment advisor.

Along the way, Josh managed to author an acclaim book, Backstage Wall Street, and build an

enormous following around his blog, The Reform Broker, as well as his Twitter handle,

at Reform Broker.

Now he oversees Ritholtz's day-to-day operations in addition to his other duties, which

include serving as a regular contributor on CNBC, as a member of the FinTech firm Bright Scopes Advisory

Board, and most recently as a technical advisor on the Showtime hedge fund drama billions. If it seems like

Josh is everywhere, that's not far from the truth. Today, he's here as our guest and we're very

pleased to have him. Josh, welcome to the Longview. Thank you so much for having me, guys. Thank you so

much for doing this. It's my pleasure. Christine, you're like a legend. I've been reading your stuff since forever. I'm really

excited. So, Josh, some of our listeners, I think, are familiar with your background, but not all of

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