Matt Krantz: Yield-Chasing Investors Are ‘Asking for a World of Hurt’

The Long View

Morningstar

Finance, Dan Lefkovitz, Amy Arnott, Entrepreneurship, Investing Leaders, Jeff Ptak, Investors, Christine Benz, Influential Investors, Careers, Long-term Investing, Financial Services, Business, Investing, Morningstar

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🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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An author and longtime investing columnist on the role of individual stocks in a diversified portfolio, the virtues of ETFs, and the biggest mistakes he sees individual investors making.

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0:32.9	Hi, and welcome to The Longview. I'm Christine Ben's director of personal finance and retirement planning
0:38.0	for Morningstar. And I'm Amy Arnaut, portfolio strategist for Morningstar. Our guest on the podcast today
0:44.8	is author and columnist Matt Krantz. He's the personal finance and management editor at Investors Business
0:50.9	Daily. Prior to joining IBD, Matt was a senior financial writer for Capital
0:55.8	Group. He was also a personal finance writer and reporter at USA Today for nearly 18 years. Matt is also
1:02.8	the author of several books, including Fundamental Investing for Dummies, Online Investing for Dummies,
1:08.4	and Retirement Planning for Dummies. Matt, welcome to The Longview retirement planning for dummies.
1:12.2	Matt, welcome to the Longview.
1:13.8	Thanks for having me.
1:17.2	Well, thanks for being here. I've admired your work for a long time.
1:23.3	I want to start by talking about your personal journey and how you ended up writing about investing.
1:31.2	Yeah, so I went to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and I was a business major. I always worked on the college paper, and I always really enjoy journalism. So kind of dawned on me, why not just
1:36.3	blend them? And it was funny because I was working at the Daily Herald, which is north of Chicago.
1:43.0	I was working in Chicago at Ernst & Young, which is an of Chicago. I was working in Chicago at Ernst
1:44.9	Young, which is an accounting firm. And the editor-in-chief from Investors Business Daily was coming
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