Smart Beta vs Dumb Beta … Which is Better? A Discussion About ETFs

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Money Tree Investing Podcast

Stockmarket, Valuestocks, Investing, Finance, Passiveincome, Wealth, Business, Personalfinance

4.6 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Is your ETF employing the best strategies for this market?

This week we discuss ETFs and why you should consider them for your portfolio.

We discuss the difference between mutual funds and ETFs, active and passive ETF strategies, Smart Beta, ex-out indexing, quant strategies, gold, and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast.
0:04.0	Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life.
0:10.0	Welcome to this week's episode of Money Tree Investing Podcast.
0:14.0	My name's Kirk Chisholm and I'm going to be your host.
0:17.0	So today we are interviewing Will Rind.
0:19.0	How you doing today, Will? Very well, Kirk. How are you doing today, Will?
0:33.6	Very well, Kirk. How are you? Good. So we wanted to bring Will on because Will has a background in many different areas in finance, ETFs and gold specifically, which are areas that I know a lot of people have been interested in hearing about.
0:37.3	Will, why do you tell us a little bit about your background to start so people know where you're coming from? I'm from a town called Aberdeen, which is the northeast part of Scotland.
0:42.4	I got started and investing with a Japanese investment bank just after college called Namura
0:47.9	and then made my way into the asset management business. And I sort of got involved in
0:52.8	ETFs because I was working for a company
0:55.4	at the time which folks will now know as BlackRock, but we really were doing the first
1:01.1	ETFs in the world. And so launching ETFs at that time, it was in Europe, but really it was a new
1:07.5	product category in the market. And so started doing that and then really sort of dedicated my career from that point
1:15.5	up until now to these investment products and to the industry of ETF.
1:19.4	So from there, I got involved in the startup, which became very successful that was
1:25.0	sort of largely focused on the commodity sector. And then just
1:29.1	actually before this, I was the CEO at the largest gold fund in the world, the ETF called GLD.
1:36.4	And then I left and set up my own company, Granite shares. And that's what I've been doing for
1:40.2	the last or three years. But again, we're focused on ETFs, exchange trade products.
1:45.0	So you've got a good bit of background in ETFs, and I want to kind of touch on each of them.
1:49.5	I know gold is a particular interest because it's obviously one of the few asset classes that's
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