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The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

The Best Investment Writing Volume 3: Ben Johnson – When Markets Are Tough, Don't Look

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

The Idea Farm

Management, Investing, Business

4.8978 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Last year when we published The Best Investment Writing Volume 2, we offered authors the opportunity to record an audio version of their chapter to be released as a segment of the podcast, and listeners loved it. This year, we’re bringing you the entire volume of The Best Investment Writing Volume 3 in podcast format. You’ll hear from some of the most respected money managers and investment researchers all over the world. Enough from me, let’s let Ben take over this special episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome podcast listeners. We have a fantastic episode for you today.

0:11.4

Last year when we published the Best Investment Writing

0:14.5

Volume 2, we offered authors the opportunity to record an audio version of their

0:19.1

chapter to be released as a segment of the podcast and listeners loved it. This year we're bringing you

0:25.3

the entire volume of the best investment writing volume 3 in podcast format.

0:31.1

You'll hear from some of the most respected money managers and

0:34.0

investment researchers all over the world. Enough for me. Let's get to our guests and

0:39.2

let them take over this special episode.

0:41.6

Hi, this is Ben Johnson. I'm the director of Global E.T.F.

0:47.0

Research with Morningstar.

0:48.0

Morningstar is a global research organization dedicated to empowering investors success.

0:55.2

To learn more about us, you can find us at morningstar.com.

0:59.3

You can find my team's work on the ETF tab of of Morningstar.com and you can find me personally on

1:05.8

Twitter at M-star E-T-F US. I'm going to read a piece titled When Markets Get Tough Don't Look.

1:16.0

In Thinking Fast and Slow, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Laureate, Danny Kahneman summarizes decades of work he has

1:26.1

done to better understand the way that we think.

1:29.6

The book's title alludes to The Two Speeds, or in in conamine's terms systems that we use to process information.

1:37.0

System 1 is fast. System 2 is slow. System 1 allows us to respond quickly to external stimuli with limited

1:46.2

information. System 2 is more pensive and calculated. Each has its own

1:52.3

benefits and drawbacks and together they can help explain the various

1:56.7

cognitive biases that Kahneman and his close collaborator Amos Tversky documented.

2:03.8

We owe System 1 an immense debt of gratitude.

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