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Podcast weblog featuring the investment wisdom and principles of John C. Bogle
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Rick Ferri turns specialist conversations into clear lessons about index design, valuation, investor behavior and long-run expectations.
Bogleheads On Investing Podcast gives Rick Ferri room to ask how investment ideas are built, measured and applied. His interviews stay close to the mechanics: Rolf Agather explains index construction, buffering and turnover; Aswath Damodaran works through implied equity risk…
A target-date fund gets its day in court, with your urge to tinker as the defendant.
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A careful look at how bond and equity investors form long-run return expectations.
This episode looks at how investors set long-run return expectations, using the guest's series of papers as the main thread. It moves from recent yield history to the habits behind forecasting, especially the split between bond investors, who tend to talk in forward-looking…
A grounded look at fund trends, with practical detail on active ETFs and fund structure.
Jeff Patek joins Rick Ferri for a technical look at major shifts in the mutual fund industry, with the sharpest attention on actively managed ETFs.
A calm, practical guide to the first financial steps after a spouse dies.
Mike Piper and Rick Ferri spend the hour on a problem that only feels administrative until it lands on one person: estate paperwork, tax questions, and surviving-spouse logistics. The discussion works because it stays close to the work itself.
A patient valuation conversation that turns stock prices into a question about return, not just risk.
Rick Ferri gives Aswath Damodaran room to do what he does best: make valuation feel usable instead of abstract. The conversation starts with equity risk premium and ends on a cleaner question than most market talk asks, which is what return the current price implies.
A calm case for leaving a good portfolio alone.
David Boyer talks with Rick Ferry, and the episode settles into a clear lesson on investing discipline. The central question is simple: when does a target date fund do the job better than the urge to keep adjusting an allocation?
A measured look at real estate as risk, tax treatment, and portfolio choice.
The episode treats real estate as part of portfolio thinking, not a side topic. Rick Ferry keeps the discussion practical as Jim Dawley and John Wirth move through depreciation, 1031 exchanges, REITs, and where real estate fits beside stocks and bonds.
A disciplined book discussion that treats investing as a set of decisions made under uncertainty.
Rick Ferry talks with Victor Hagoni and James White about The Missing Billionaires, A Guide to Better Financial Decisions, and the episode works best when it questions familiar investing slogans instead of repeating them.
A grounded model for couples to turn shared goals into spending decisions.
Heather and Doug make the episode work by keeping the money talk tied to something concrete: a shared goal, like a vacation, instead of starting with a spreadsheet. That choice gives the discussion a practical shape, and it makes the advice easy to use.
Demetri Kofinas interviews specialists on geopolitics, energy markets, AI, and finance at length.
BBC's daily business show, from toy-industry founders to Anthropic's Pentagon standoff.
Carola Binder, an economics professor at the University of Texas at Austin, joins Rick Ferri on Bogleheads on Investing episode 78 to discuss her book Shock Values, Prices and Inflation in American Democracy.
Bogleheads On Investing Podcast episode 89 focuses on year-end tax planning, 2026 tax changes, Roth conversions, charitable giving, and health insurance rules for early retirees.
Josh Brown traces his path from a Long Island teenager who wanted to animate for Disney to a 1996 brokerage cold-caller in Manhattan and later a CNBC regular and founder of The Reformed Broker.
Heather and Douglas Boneparth use Bogleheads forum questions to discuss how couples manage money together, especially when one spouse is more involved than the other.
Jenny Rozelle, an elder law and estate planning attorney, answers Bogleheads questions about solo agers, Medicaid planning, beneficiary designations, trusts, and timeshares.
Bill Bengen discusses updated retirement spending strategies, including the 4% rule, inflation considerations, and market volatility impacts on safe withdrawal rates.
Rick Ferri hosts Bogleheads On Investing Episode 68 with Rolf Agather, Morningstar’s head of index research and products, and frames the discussion around the rise from less than 3% indexed mutual-fund money in the late 1980s to 53% today.
Rick Ferri brings Dr.
Rick Ferry opens with a tribute to Jonathan Clements and a few announcements.
Bogleheads On Investing Podcast Episode 85 features Jon Luskin interviewing Ed Slott, CPA about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and Roth conversions.
Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer of Bitwise Asset Management, joins Rick Ferri for Bogleheads on Investing episode 71 to explain blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and central bank digital currencies in strictly educational terms.
Episode 69 of Bogleheads On Investing features Rick Ferri and Larry Swedroe discussing Swedroe’s 18th book, "Enrich Your Future, The Keys to Successful Investing," including why he sees it as a capstone work.
Steve Chen, founder and CEO of NewRetirement, explains why his software is built as “a turbo tax for planning,” with free plans, a $120 annual tier, and flat-fee access to coaches or CFPs.
Episode 90 starts with the bond basics, then quickly gets into the weeds.
Return expectations are the topic.
Rick Ferry interviews Jeff Clark about Vanguard's 2025 How America Saves study, analyzing 5 million participants across 1,400 retirement plans.
Cameron Bishop (Raincatcher M&A) discusses business exit strategies and valuation.
Three leading personal finance journalists and experts discuss the Jonathan Clements Getting Going on Savings Initiative, launched in response to the founder's terminal cancer diagnosis.
Greg Zuckerman, bestselling author of The Man Who Solved the Market, joins Rick Ferry to explore why individual traders rarely succeed.
Jeff Patek, Morningstar research director and CFA, discusses major mutual fund and ETF industry trends.
Rick Ferry welcomes back Mike Piper for a practical discussion of what to do when someone becomes the executor of an estate, with a focus on giving surviving spouses a usable financial guide.
Rick Ferry introduces Aswath Damodaran as a Stern professor of corporate finance and equity valuation.
Finance assumed people were computers until the evidence said otherwise.
Dirty painting in a gilded frame turned out to be a Church masterpiece now hanging in the Oval Office.
Christine Benz and Rick Ferri discuss How to Retire, her book built from 20 one-on-one interviews with retirement experts rather than 20 contributed chapters.
In this role-reversed interview, David Boyer interviews host Rick Ferry about his journey from Marine Corps fighter pilot to passive investing advocate.
Bogleheads On Investing episode 67 features Rick Ferri speaking with tax attorney Kaye Thomas about income taxes, capital gains, Roth conversions, and charitable giving.
Bogleheads on Investing episode 66 features Dr.
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Two legendary hedge fund managers (Victor Haghani from LTCM, James White mathematician-turned-trader) explain their book The Missing Billionaires, which challenges conventional investing wisdom.
Market history teaches discipline—recognize euphoria to avoid losses.