- Welcome to Common Sense Investing with Ben Felix
- Why are people switching to index funds? | CSI Investing with Ben Felix
- Why Canadians Aren't Flocking to ETFs | Common Sense Investing with Ben Felix
- Why It's So Hard to Beat the Market P1 | Common Sense Investing with Ben Felix
- Why It's So Hard to Beat the Market pt 2 | Common Sense Investing with Ben Felix
- Downside Protection | Common Sense Investing with Ben Felix
- The Myth of Outperforming Funds | Common Sense Investing with Ben Felix
- What Does It Take To Become a Financial Advisor | Common Sense Investing with Ben Felix
- The Suitability Standard
- Is Now the Best Time to Invest? | Common Sense Investing with Ben Felix
- Bond Index Funds in Rising-Rate Environments | Common Sense Investing with Ben Felix
- How the Tax Free Savings Account Really Works
- Why Index Funds Aren't Going to Break the Market | Common Sense Investing with Ben Felix
- Should You Currency Hedge Your Portfolio? | Common Sense Investment with Ben Felix
- Why You Should Think Twice about High Yield Bonds | Common Sense Investing
- Why I Prefer to Avoid Preferred Shares | Common Sense Investing
- Why Income Investing Will Not Give You Income | Common Sense Investing
- 4 Reasons Your Advisor Isn’t Recommending Index Funds | Common Sense Investing with Ben Felix
- Do Active Managers Protect Your Downside? | Common Sense Investing
- Why You Should Ignore Market Experts | Common Sense Investing
- Why Not All Index Funds Are Created Equal | Common Sense Investing
- The Case For Renting A Home Part 1 | Common Sense Investing
- The Case For Renting A Home Part 2
- The Illusionary Allure of Hedge Funds
- Do Most Financial Advisors Know What They're Talking About?
- How Much Risk Should You Take?
- One Year of Common Sense Investing
- Does Active Management Work For Institutional Investors?
- Housing: The Best Investment In History (On Paper)
- Actively Managed Funds In Canada Are Still Terrible
- Robo Advisors: Investor Friend or Foe?
- Foreign Withholding Tax
- Asset Location
- Should You Be Factor Investing?
- The 4% Rule for Retirement (FIRE)
- Do You Need Permanent Life Insurance?
- What Are Normal Stock Returns?
- Asset Allocation
- Mortgage Debt and Asset Allocation
- Pre VS After Tax Asset Allocation
- The Inverted Yield Curve Is Not Out To Get You
- Picking Stocks | Common Sense Investing
- The Grossman - Stiglitz Paradox (feat. The Plain Bagel)
- The Problem With Small Cap Stocks
- Dividend Growth Investing
- How the RRSP Works
- One-Decision Asset Allocation ETFs (VCIP/VCNS/VBAL/VGRO/VEQT | XBAL/XGRO)
- Bond Fund Vs GICs
- Small Cap and Value Stocks
- Advice From Warren Buffett
- Reasons to Avoid Index Funds
- Renting vs. Buying a Home: The 5% Rule
- Does Market Timing Ever Work?
- Low Volatility - Low Beta ETFs
- Are Index Funds Over-Diversified?
- Is The Market Efficient?
- How to Evaluate Your Investment Decisions
- Investing in the S&P 500
- Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
- Investing In Gold
- The Irrelevance of Dividends
- The Index Fund Bubble
- Preparing for the Recession
- The 5 Risks Every Investor Needs to Understand
- Efficient Capital Markets Explained
- Home Country Bias
- Investing in Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)
- Investing With Leverage (Borrowing to Invest, Leveraged ETFs)
- Dave Ramsey's Investing Advice
- Stock Market Forecasts
- Sustainable Investing (ESG, SRI)
- Is the Value Premium Dead?
- Renaissance Technologies Medallion Fund (Jim Simons)
- Market Crashes (Is This Time Different?)
- Bear Markets: This Time is Different (Every Time)
- The Stock Market vs. The Economy
- How to Retire Early (The 4% Rule?)
- Understanding the Fed's "Money Printer" (QE, the Stock Market, and Inflation)
- Large Cap Growth Stocks (FB, AMZN, AAPL, GOOGL, MSFT, TSLA)
- US Elections vs. the Stock Market
- The Truth About Day Trading
- Investing in Technological Revolutions
- Chasing Top Fund Managers
- The Endowment Model
- What is (Good) Financial Advice?
- Investing in Happiness
- Commission-Free Day Trading
- Will Climate Change Crash the Stock Market?
- Renting vs Buying a Home: How to Decide
- Stocks, Bonds, and War
- Investing in Emerging Markets
- Thematic ETFs (are Terrible Investments)
- In Search of the Ultimate Inflation Hedge
- The Relevance of Dividend Irrelevance
- Are "Good Companies" Good Investments?
- Luxury Vehicles and Happiness
- The Private Equity Pitch
- The Index Fund "Tipping Point"
- The 2.7% Rule for Retirement Spending
- International Diversification
- Who Should NOT Invest in Total Market Index Funds?
- Covered Calls: The Income Illusion
- Are Structured Products Good Investments?
- Cash is a terrible long-term investment, even at 5% interest
- Dividends are not investment returns. They are not free money, and do not offer downside protection.
- Is an 8% Safe Withdrawal Rate... Safe?
- Why NOT Investing Is (Probably) Going To Cost You
- The Performance Gap
- The Cost of Investment Hubris
- High Income Investments: A Warning
- Dollar Cost Averaging vs. Lump Sum Investing
- Why ESG Investing May Be Doing More Harm Than Good
- The Problem with High Stock Valuations
- Why It Might Be Time To Rethink Lifecycle Asset Allocation
- Is Home Country Bias a Mistake?
- Do Stocks Return 10% on Average?
- Bank Financial Advice is Worse Than People Realize
- CPP is More Valuable than Most People Realize
- Why Taking CPP Early Is (Usually) A Mistake
- The Most Important Lessons in Investing
- Budget 2024: Capital Gains Tax is Increasing [Canada]
- Will ARKK Recover?
- The Problem With Private Credit
- Why Do Financial Advisors Still Exist?
- The Psychology of Home Ownership
- Why You Will (Probably) Lose Money Trading Options
- Why Betting On “Winning” Industries Almost Never Works
- Republican Power and Stock Returns
- Why Canada Pension Plan Skeptics are Wrong
- "What About Warren Buffett?"
- Choosing an Asset Allocation (How Much in Stocks vs. Bonds?)
- The Case for Index Funds
- Dimensional (DFA) vs. Vanguard
- "Sequence of Returns Risk"
- The Most Controversial Paper in Finance
- Market Crashes (2025 Edition)
- The Problem With Index Funds
- Renting vs. Buying a Home: What People Get Wrong
- The Most Controversial Topics in Personal Finance
- The Risk of (Individual) Stocks
- 20 Years of Renting vs. Buying a Home in Canada (2005 to 2024)
- I (almost) got scammed so you don't have to
- Comparing U.S. Equity ETFs: VTI vs. DFUS
- The Most Important Quotes in Investing
- Bank Financial Advice
- Covered Calls: A Devil's Bargain
- Was I Wrong About Covered Calls?
- Covered Calls: What People Get Wrong
- Investing 101
- The best introduction to personal finance I have ever read
- The "AI Bubble"
- 2025 Was Nut(s): A Canadian CIO's Review
- The Rise of ETF Slop
- The Problem with Equal Weight Index Funds
- The Biggest Mistakes in Personal Finance
- Renting vs. Buying a Home: The Reckoning
- The Problem with Private Markets
- The Finance Paper That Changed Everything
- SpaceX and OpenAI: The Mega IPO Grift
- CIBC’s Avantis ETFs vs. Index Funds
- Finding and Funding a Good Life
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