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The Intrinsic Value Podcast - The Investor’s Podcast Network

MI Rewind: The Democratization of Finance w/ Seamus Scaring and Carlos Pelaez

The Intrinsic Value Podcast - The Investor’s Podcast Network

The Investor's Podcast Network

Business, Education, Investing

4.6592 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Clay Finck chats with Seamus Scaring and Carlos Pelaez about the surge in retail demand in the financial markets, whether the surge in retail demand is here to stay or not, ETFs, options, and much, much more! Seamus is a senior index options analyst with Nasdaq. He's focused on building and managing Nasdaq's index options product suite, including Nasdaq-100 index options. Carlos is a senior manager of ETF listings at Nasdaq as well. Carlos primarily works with asset managers to help them navigate the ETF listings process and life cycle.  IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00 - Intro 04:01 - What has led to the surge in retail investors gaining access to financial markets? 13:10 - What ETFs are, and why we’ve seen increased interest in ETFs from retail investors. 15:03 - The benefits that ETFs bring relative to other investment products. 25:25 - A brief history of the options market. 30:12 - The benefits of utilizing options in your portfolio. 35:28 - What market benchmarks investors are using in their portfolios. And much, much more! *Disclaimer: Slight timestamp discrepancies may occur due to podcast platform differences. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Kyle and the other community members. Related Episode: Listen to MI079: Should YOU Trade Options w/ Tom Sosnoff, or watch the video. Related Episode: Listen to MI053: Building Wealth, Staying Wealthy, and Retiring Early w/ Jeremy Scheider, or watch the video. NEW TO THE SHOW? Check out our Millennial Investing Starter Packs. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try Kyle’s favorite tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. Stay up-to-date on financial markets and investing strategies through our daily newsletter, We Study Markets. Learn how to better start, manage, and grow your business with the best business podcasts. SPONSORS Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors: Fiscal.AI Connect with Clay: Twitter Connect with Nasdaq: Website HELP US OUT! Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! It takes less than 30 seconds and really helps our show grow, which allows us to bring on even better guests for you all! Thank you – we really appreciate it!  Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm

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0:00.0

You're listening to TIP.

0:02.3

On today's show, we've started to reshare some older episodes that are my favorite for a few

0:07.7

reasons.

0:08.7

One, we get a bunch of new listeners each week, so the new listeners may not have heard this

0:13.4

episode before.

0:14.7

Two, even if you've been listening for a while, you may have missed this episode when it

0:19.4

originally came out.

0:21.6

Or three, even if you've heard it before, it may have missed this episode when it originally came out. Or three,

0:26.8

even if you've heard it before, it can be a great episode to learn from again. If you've already heard this episode or you're not interested in hearing it, feel free to just skip it.

0:30.8

There's no harm in that, and you can pick up with our new episodes next week. All right, guys,

0:35.5

that's all I had for you for this new intro. Everything going

0:39.0

forward is going to be from the original show. Hope you guys enjoy it. On today's episode, I sit down

0:47.7

with Seamus Scaring and Carlos Polias from NASDAQ to talk about surge in retail demand and

0:53.4

financial markets, what ETFs are

0:55.8

and why we've seen an increased interest in them, the benefits of utilizing options in your

1:00.6

portfolio, what market benchmarks investors are using to judge their portfolio's performance,

1:06.2

whether the surge in retail demand is here to stay or not, and much, much more.

1:10.8

Seamus is a senior index options analyst with NASDAQ.

1:14.0

He's focused on building and managing NASDAQ's index options product suite, including NASDAQ 100

1:19.9

index options.

1:21.5

Carlos is a senior manager of ETF listings at NASDAQ as well.

1:25.4

Carlos primarily works with asset managers to help them navigate the

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