Ignacio Ramirez Moreno, CFA
85 episodes listed below
Clear finance talk for patient investors.
The Blunt Dollar treats finance as a discipline of evidence, temperament, and incentives. Its conversations move from private equity and ETFs to habits, compounding, capital allocation, and the quiet ways investors sabotage themselves.
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The Blunt Dollar is a serious, conversational finance show about investing judgment under uncertainty. It is not built around market chatter. It is built around the decisions beneath the chatter: how allocators frame risk, how fund managers judge quality, how investors mistake narratives for evidence, and how behavior can quietly damage a portfolio. The format is interview-centric, with long answers and follow-up questions that let technical ideas breathe. Private equity becomes a conversation about arrogance, IRR games, fee structures, fundraising cycles, and why stable rules can matter to long-term investors. Public equities become a discussion of durable businesses, scale economics, capital allocation, and the emotional discipline to sit still while compounding does its work. ETFs are treated less as boring wrappers than as tools inside active portfolio construction. Behavioral finance gets concrete. A trading app, a payroll release, or a desk can become part of the mechanism that turns information into habit. The show keeps returning to a useful suspicion: investors often begin with a story, then hunt for evidence that protects it. That makes the conversations practical. They are not only about what happened in markets, but about how a decision process can become more robust before stress arrives. The tone is plain-spoken and finance-literate. It can be candid, but it usually favors clarity over performance. The best episodes connect abstract investment principles to lived experience: institutional stability in Europe, concentration risk in U.S. indices, the limits of active-versus-passive framing, or the danger of interrupting compounding with leverage and impatience. The Blunt Dollar is for listeners who want to sharpen how they think about portfolios, not just collect more opinions about them.
Made for: Best for finance-literate listeners, allocators, advisors, analysts, and self-directed investors who want better frameworks for portfolio decisions. It also suits curious professionals who prefer grounded market conversations over prediction theater.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by pressing guests on process, incentives, and behavioral failure points rather than stopping at broad market opinion. Its strongest pattern is turning a finance narrative into a practical question about evidence, discipline, and portfolio construction.
Finance doesn’t have to be boring or sugarcoated. It’s time for a show that tells it like it is. The Blunt Dollar is where real conversations meet real finance, hosted by Ignacio Ramírez Moreno, a fixed-income advisor, CFA charterholder, and LinkedIn content creator who isn’t afraid to ask the tough questions.Each episode brings candid, thought-provoking discussions with investors, traders, analysts, and market thinkers who cut through the noise and get to the truth behind money, markets, and investing. Whether it’s exposing the myths of the financial world, exploring the hidden forces shaping markets, or breaking d...
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Blunt Dollar makes investment decisions legible by pressing experienced guests on process, incentives, portfolio choices, and the habits behind them.
Ignacio Ramirez builds each conversation around a problem investors can examine: identifying durable companies, judging private equity managers, using ETFs in portfolio construction, or recognizing habits that distort decisions.
IRR games meet habit myths, so your portfolio gets fewer comfortable excuses.
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A sharp private equity conversation about arrogance, narratives, and the discipline long-term investors need.
This episode makes a clear case that arrogance is a warning sign when judging managers, and it treats private equity as a business of IRR games, fee structures, fundraising cycles, and the pull Europe can hold for long-term investors.
A patient case for quality investing, with capital allocation treated as the real test.
Andrew Hollingworth treats quality investing as a patient search for a mismatch between price, current operating reality, and long-term capital allocation.
A clear look at how stress, habit, and context shape investing judgment.
Money is treated less like a spreadsheet exercise and more like a human one. The episode works best when it turns behavioral science into plain investing judgment: trading apps can push people into faster reactions, the same signal can land differently depending on context, and…
A clear, practical take on when passive is enough and when active still belongs in the mix.
This episode takes the old active-versus-passive argument and makes it smaller, which helps. Sefian Kasim is at his best when he brings the talk back to how investors actually use ETFs and active funds in a portfolio, especially around U.S.
BBC's daily business show, from toy-industry founders to Anthropic's Pentagon standoff.
Overnight markets, explained before the day moves.
Gold-first macro with sharp political teeth.
Markets, money, and messy useful arguments.
Jay Jacob argues that customized portfolios may outgrow the mutual-fund model because each investor has a different CPI and spending basket.
Andrew Izumov, founder of Eight Figures, explains how an AI-powered investment advisor could provide low-cost portfolio guidance instead of charging around 1% of assets under management.
Vitaly Katsenelson, CEO and CIO of Investment Management Associates, applies Epictetus's circle of control to investing, arguing that only research quality, process and reactions are under an investor's control.
Arrogance is the warning light.
Quality is narrower than brand fame.
Ignacio Ramirez speaks with Anastasia Abrielskaya, a behavioral scientist and assistant professor at HEC Paris, about why money is rarely as rational as it seems.
The conversation centers on why active and passive should not be treated as opposing tribes.
This episode features Cole Wilcox discussing how to engineer a resilient portfolio by avoiding common pitfalls that interrupt compounding and ensuring long-term investment success.