The Personal Finance Podcast

The Patient Investor's Playbook with Noah Kerner - CEO of Acorns

The Personal Finance Podcast

Show Notes

The CEO of Acorns says 96% of people who trade online lose money. Here is why slow and steady is still the only investing strategy that actually works.

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What You'll Learn in This Episode

The eight disturbing fintech trends that are quietly working against your wealth

Why an investing app with a prediction market is like a bank with a blackjack table

How $5 a day invested consistently can make you a millionaire over time

Why the best investor according to research is literally a dead one

Why holding cash is not safe and what most people get dangerously wrong about it

How Noah Kerner personally invests his own money and why it is boring on purpose

The one decade Noah lost to being too conservative and what it cost him in real dollars

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Episode/s Mentioned

Should You Buy Into IPOs (SpaceX, Anthropic, or Open AI) https://youtu.be/e8r5h7RkOyo

This is THE BIGGEST RISK to Your Retirement Portfolio https://youtu.be/7gXKEy66-bA

Watch Next

The Best Ages to Build Wealth (Ranked!) https://youtu.be/JIZ1WrS91v4

Should You Buy Into IPOs (SpaceX, Anthropic, or Open AI) https://youtu.be/e8r5h7RkOyo

Is the S&P 500 Overweighted? Becoming an Accidental Landlord? Can We Retire Early and Move to Japan? https://youtu.be/GYtfRluCfv0

This is THE BIGGEST RISK to Your Retirement Portfolio https://youtu.be/7gXKEy66-bA

The Insurance Crisis Nobody Is Talking About (With Bob Litterman) https://youtu.be/gBuIOQKQgFM

Connect with Noah Kerner

Personal:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noahkerner/

Acorns

Website: https://acorns.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acorns-grow-inc-/

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Question for you:

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