The Important Part: Investing with Liz Thomas

Retirement planning can feel intimidating, whether you’re decades away or getting ready to make the transition. Jean Chatzky wants to make it feel a little more manageable. This week on The Important Part, HerMoney CEO and The Forever Paycheck author Jean Chatzky joins Liz Thomas to discuss how to prepare for retirement while still enjoying your life today. Jean shares her perspective on retiremen...

Tony Robbins says the old investor playbook is changing.  For decades, many investors were told to build wealth through public stocks and bonds. But Tony believes some of the biggest opportunities may sit outside the traditional market, in private equity, private credit, sports ownership, and other alternative investments that were once harder for individual investors to access. On this episo...

Midterms are approaching, bringing questions about what the outcome could mean for policy and investors. Libby Cantrill, Head of U.S. Public Policy at PIMCO, joins us on The Important Part: Investing with Liz Thomas this week to share her take on midterms and what investors should be watching as November approaches.  Libby and Liz dig into affordability and the issues shaping the political co...

Cryptocurrency used to be positioned as an alternative to Wall Street. Now? Wall Street is increasingly embracing the technology behind it.  Zack Guzman – Founder of Trustless Media and Host of Coinage, a crypto and Web3 podcast – joins us on The Important Part: Investing with Liz Thomas this week to share his perspective on how crypto has evolved from a disruptive idea to an institutional as...

Commodities span far beyond gold. From precious metals and energy to agriculture, they can offer investors another way to think about markets and portfolio diversification. Kathy Kriskey, Head of Alternatives Product Strategy at Invesco, joins SoFi Chief Market Strategist, Liz Thomas this week to share her take on today’s commodities market and explore what’s happening beyond the usual suspects, f...

Housing prices are through the roof, mortgage rates are high and rents continue to climb. So what’s driving today’s challenging housing market?  This week, Jonathan Miller, CEO of Miller Samuel, joins SoFi Chief Market Strategist Liz Thomas to break down the forces shaping today’s housing market. Jonathan shares his perspective on where homebuyers are finding available inventory and why some...

In 2010, Brian Belski said we were entering a 25 year bull market. Fifteen years later, he hasn’t changed his tune.  Brian Belski, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Humulis Investment Strategies, sits down with SoFi Chief Market Strategist Liz Thomas to share his perspective on today’s bull and what could shake it. He also discusses how Humulis is approaching current market conditions, incl...

There’s big money in sports right now and it’s not just happening in leagues like the NFL or NBA. But how can those of us who will never own a professional team get in on this booming sector? This week, Front Office Sports Editor-in-Chief, Dan Roberts sits down with SoFi Chief Market Strategist Liz Thomas to discuss why he believes sports investing matters in today’s market. He shares his perspect...

War, inflation, and AI are converging to create a high risk moment in the market. But in this bull market, many are seeing high returns. On this episode, Shannon Saccocia, Chief Investment Officer for Neuberger Berman, sits down with SoFi’s Chief Market Strategist Liz Thomas to discuss where the big risks are, how they’re shifting, and what investors can look out for to manage their exposure.&nbsp...

Picking individual stocks has never been easier. Figuring out how to evaluate them is another story. Stephanie Link, Chief Investment Strategist, Head of Investment Solutions, and Equity Portfolio Manager at Hightower Advisors, joins Liz Thomas to explain her approach to researching stocks and constructing a portfolio amid a noisy and sometimes volatile market. Link discusses how investors can beg...

Americans say they feel bad about the economy. Their spending tells a different story.  Michelle Meyer, Chief Economist at Mastercard and head of the Mastercard Economics Institute, joins Liz Thomas to share her perspective on what Mastercard is seeing in real-time spending data.  The episode looks at why consumer sentiment has stayed weak even as spending has held up. Meyer says the dat...

“Future rich person” is not about getting rich overnight. For Haley Sacks, a.k.a. Mrs. Dow Jones, it is about learning how money works early enough to give yourself more choices later. On this week’s episode, Haley sits down with Liz to talk about the money habits that can quietly change someone’s financial life, from investing earlier to negotiating with more confidence at work. She also explains...

Today’s bull market just keeps building with stock indexes reaching record highs, AI buildout booming, and blockbuster IPOs smashing records.  It’s giving the ‘90s… and we know how that ended. On this episode of The Important Part: Investing with Liz Thomas, Dan Greenhaus, Chief Strategist at Solus Alternative Asset Management, takes us back in time to understand the years of build up before...

About one in eight U.S. adults say they take a GLP-1 drug, according to a poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation. And that raises a number of questions for investors. As use of drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound grows, the effects are moving far beyond healthcare and into the way people eat, shop, and spend. In this episode of The Important Part, Liz Thomas sits down with Caleb Silver, edito...

Wearables have gone from counting steps to tracking sleep, recovery, heart health, and more. But the bigger story may be what all that data makes possible next. In this episode of The Important Part, Liz Thomas sits down with Craig Shapiro, CEO of Collaborative Fund and an early investor in WHOOP, to discuss why he believes wearable technology is still in its infancy. Using WHOOP’s rise from a nic...

SpaceX launched as the biggest IPO in history last week, officially igniting the space economy. But what exactly is the space economy? Is it about astronauts and space stations? Exploration and research? Infrastructure and defense? Morgan Brennan, anchor of CNBC’s Morning Call and host of the podcast Manifest Space, says it’s all of the above and so much more. On this episode of The Important Part...

This market can be hard to read unless you understand what is actually driving it. On The Important Part, SoFi’s Chief Market Strategist Liz Thomas talks with the folks thinking through markets in real time — from where capital is moving to what is driving returns. Subscribe to The Important Part from SoFi for smarter conversations about your money.

Energy has quickly become one of the biggest market stories of 2026 and its impact is spreading beyond gas prices.  In this episode of The Important Part: Investing with Liz Thomas, Liz sits down with DrivePath Advisors energy specialist and former Bloomberg anchor Alix Steel to unpack the ripple effects of the global energy shock that’s reshaping everything from inflation and AI to geopolitics an...

Companies are staying private longer. Retail investors have more access than ever. And when companies like SpaceX or OpenAI eventually go public, they could become major tests for how today’s IPO market actually works. In this episode of The Important Part, Liz Thomas sits down with Tom Farley, CEO of Bullish and former president of the New York Stock Exchange. Farley watched roughly 600 companies...

Public markets may dominate the headlines, but some of the biggest investing opportunities may be happening where most investors aren’t looking. In this episode of The Important Part: Investing with Liz Thomas, Anastasia Amoroso, Chief Investment Strategist at Partners Group, joins Liz to unpack the rapid rise of private markets. From private equity to private credit, Amoroso breaks down why inves...

By the numbers, the job market may look solid. But for many job seekers, the experience feels far more uncertain, frustrating, and opaque. In this episode of The Important Part: Investing with Liz Thomas, Liz sits down with Andrew Seaman, LinkedIn’s Editor at Large for Jobs and Career Development, to better understand what is really happening inside today’s hiring market. They discuss the disconne...

Markets have remained resilient in 2026. But beneath the headline strength, some signals are getting harder to ignore. In this episode of The Important Part: Investing with Liz Thomas, Neil Dutta, Head of Economic Research at Renaissance Macro, joins Liz to break down how he is reading the current market and economic backdrop. While recession is not his base case, Dutta explains why he believes ce...

Did you know that out of 30 companies in any given VC fund, only one or two clear a billion dollars in value? That's not a failure rate…that's the whole model. In this episode, Alexa von Tobel, founder of LearnVest and managing partner of Inspired Capital, pulls back the curtain on the asset class that quietly built some of the biggest fortunes of the last two decades. She breaks down exactly how...

Crypto has had a volatile start to 2026. After reaching an all-time high above $120,000 in late 2025, Bitcoin has pulled back significantly and is now trading in the mid-$60,000 range — a drawdown of roughly 40–50% — amid macro uncertainty and shifting institutional sentiment. But Anthony Scaramucci, founder and managing partner of SkyBridge Capital, isn’t backing down. In this episode, Scaramucci...

Most investors think global diversification means adding a little Europe or a slice of Asia into their portfolios. Endeavor CEO Linda Rottenberg thinks that is missing a massive opportunity. In this episode, Linda makes the case for “elsewhere markets,” those places beyond Silicon Valley and China, where she's spent the past 3 decades backing entrepreneurs who are now generating over $90 billion i...