Morningstar, Christine Benz - Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning, Ben Johnson - Head of Client Solutions, Amy Arnott - Portfolio Strategist

The Long View

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Empowering long-term investors with actionable insights on retirement, personal finance, and portfolio strategy. Hosts Christine Benz, Amy Arnott, and Ben Johnson talk with influential leaders in finance and investing every Wednesday.

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Morningstar, Christine Benz - Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning, Ben Johnson - Head of Client Solutions, Amy Arnott - Portfolio Strategist

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Business

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Oct 27, 2026

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Dan Haylett: ‘The Retirement You Didn’t See Coming’ 18.11.2025

  Our guest on the podcast today is Dan Haylett, who’s the author of a new book called The Retirement You Didn’t See Coming . Dan is a financial planner and head of growth for TFP Financial Planning based in the UK. Dan focuses on financial planning, retirement planning, and life planning for people over age 50. He also hosts a podcast called Humans vs. Retirement that is centered on the behaviora...

Callie Cox: A Student Teacher of Financial Markets 11.11.2025

Today’s guest on The Long View is Callie Cox. Callie is the chief market strategist at Ritholtz Wealth Management, where she helps the firm’s clients make sense of markets and suss out signal in the noise. Callie’s clear, relatable approach to market commentary blends deep macroeconomic market insights with an understanding of investor behavior. Before joining Ritholtz Wealth Management in 2024, C...

Beth Pinsker: Lessons From ‘My Mother’s Money’ 04.11.2025

Our guest on the podcast today is Beth Pinsker. She’s a certified financial planner and the author of a new book called My Mother’s Money: A Guide to Financial Caregiving . Beth is also a veteran financial journalist. She’s currently a financial planning columnist at MarketWatch and has also worked at Reuters, Fidelity, and Walletpop.com. Prior to covering personal finance, she was a film critic a...

Doug and Heather Boneparth: How Couples Can Find Financial Harmony 28.10.2025

Today on the podcast, we’re going to be chatting with Heather and Doug Boneparth. They’re co-authors of a new book called Money Together: How to Find Fairness in Your Relationship and Become an Unstoppable Financial Team . Heather and Doug know a little something about money in relationships. As you may have guessed, they’re married. Heather worked as a lawyer for more than a decade before joining...

Carl Richards: The Case for ‘Deeply Human’ Financial Advice 21.10.2025

Hi, and welcome to The Long View . I’m Christine Benz, director of personal finance and retirement planning for Morningstar. Today on the podcast we welcome back Carl Richards, who’s the author of a new book called Your Money: Reimagining Wealth in 101 Simple Sketches . His previous books, The Behavior Gap and The One-Page Financial Plan , were both bestsellers. Carl started the Sketch Guide colum...

Mike Pyle: Looking for Uncorrelated Sources of Return 14.10.2025

Our guest this week is Mike Pyle of BlackRock. Mike is managing director and deputy head of the Portfolio Management Group, which encompasses BlackRock’s fundamental and systematic investing teams across fixed income, equities, and multi-asset. He has also served as BlackRock’s chief investment strategist and portfolio manager of the Tactical Asset Allocation Team. Prior to and in between stints a...

Barry Ritholtz: ‘How Not to Invest’ 07.10.2025

Today on the podcast, we’re welcoming Barry Ritholtz. He’s co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, a firm that was launched in 2013. He’s the creator and host of Masters in Business, one of the earliest finance-related podcasts. He also regularly posts on The Big Picture , where he’s been covering everything investing related since 2003. He is the author o...

Kerry Hannon: What Gen Xers Need to Know About Their Retirement Plans 30.09.2025

Our guest on the podcast today is Kerry Hannon. Kerry is a senior columnist and on-air expert for Yahoo Finance and writes about retirement, jobs, career transitions, entrepreneurship, leadership, and personal finance. She has written 14 books about retirement, careers, and personal finance and is co-author of a new book, Retirement Bites: A Gen X Guide to Securing Your Financial Future . Kerry is...

Dana Anspach and Fritz Gilbert: ‘This Is What a Joyful Retirement Could Feel Like’ 23.09.2025

Today on the podcast, we welcome back two previous guests. Dana Anspach is the founder and CEO of the financial planning firm, Sensible Money, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, and she has been practicing as a financial planner since 1995. Dana is also the author of the lecture series “How to Plan for the Perfect Retirement,” available on The Great Courses, and the author of the books Control Your Ret...

Larry Jacobson: ‘The Good Things in Our Life Are What Get in the Way of Great Things’ 16.09.2025

Our guest on the podcast today is author and retirement coach, Larry Jacobson. Larry is the author of a book called Your Ideal Retirement Workbook, A Step-by-Step Guide to Retiring With Purpose and Fulfillment , which coaches its readers on the steps to take to find purpose and identity in retirement. He embarked on a career as a retirement coach after stepping away from corporate life, and he sol...

Scott Bondurant: Why Mean Reversion Means Your Portfolio Should Have More Stocks 09.09.2025

Our guest on the podcast today is Scott Bondurant. Scott is the founder and chief investment officer of Bondurant Investment Advisory, a registered investment advisor based in the Chicago suburbs. He is also an adjunct professor at Northwestern University, where he teaches an undergraduate course on the history of investing. He recently published a white paper about the importance of incorporating...

Joe Davis: How to Capitalize on ‘Megatrends’ 02.09.2025

Listen Now: Listen and subscribe to Morningstar’s The Long View from your mobile device: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Our guest on the podcast today is Joe Davis, global chief economist at Vanguard and global head of the firm’s Investment Strategy Group. He chairs the firm’s Strategic Asset Allocation Committee, which governs multi-asset class investment solutions. And he is a member of the senior por...

Neil Shearing: The World Isn’t Deglobalizing; It’s Fracturing 26.08.2025

Our guest this week is Neil Shearing. Neil is Group Chief Economist at Capital Economics and the author of a new book, The Fractured Age: How the Return of Geopolitics Will Splinter the Global Economy . In addition to managing a team of economists and serving as a voice in the investment community, Neil is an associate fellow at Chatham House, an international affairs think tank. He joined Capital...

Lawrence Lam: ‘The Types of Companies That Attract Me Are Founder-Led and Profitable’ 19.08.2025

Hi, and welcome to The Long View . I’m Dan Lefkovitz, strategist for Morningstar Indexes. Our guest this week is Lawrence Lam. Lawrence is managing director and founder of Lumenary Investment Management based in Melbourne, Australia, a firm that specializes in founder-led companies globally. Lawrence is also the author of a new book called The Founder Effect . Lawrence has also been an investment...

The Biggest Risk Investors Face Today 18.08.2025

Today on The Long View, we’re featuring an episode from another Morningstar podcast, The Morning Filter , which you can subscribe to on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Usually, Susan Dziubinski sits down every Monday morning with Morningstar’s chief U.S. market strategist Dave Sekera to talk about the week ahead. But we’ve got something a bit different for you on the podcast this...

Nick Murray: ‘The Investor Is Hardwired to Be His Own Worst Enemy’ 12.08.2025

Our guest on the podcast today is Nick Murray. Nick has written several influential books about investing and financial advice, including The Game of Numbers, Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth, and his latest, This Time Isn’t Different. His newsletter for financial advisors is called “Nick Murray Interactive,” and he also frequently leads seminars for financial advice professionals. Nick started ou...

Charley Ellis: Indexing Is a Marvelous Gift 05.08.2025

Background Bio “ Charley Ellis: Why Active Investing Is Still a Loser’s Game ,” The Long View podcast, Morningstar.com, May 27, 2020. Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Guide to Very Long-Term Investing Winning the Loser’s Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing Index Investing and ETFs “ Stock Pickers Are on a Record Run With Investors. Don’t Be Fooled, Says Index Fund Guru ,” by Jason...

Cliff Asness: ‘The Problem Was Never Beta. The Problem Was Paying Alpha Fees for Beta’ 29.07.2025

Today on the podcast we welcome back Cliff Asness. Cliff is the founder, managing principal, and chief investment officer at AQR Capital Management. Cliff writes often about investing and financial matters on AQR’s website and has been a prolific researcher throughout his career, with his contributions appearing in many of the leading scholarly journals, including the Journal of Portfolio Manageme...

Nick Maggiulli: Climbing the Wealth Ladder 22.07.2025

Today on the podcast we welcome back Nick Maggiulli. He’s the author of a new book called The Wealth Ladder: Proven Strategies for Every Step of Your Financial Life . His first book was called Just Keep Buying . In addition, Nick writes a wonderful blog called Of Dollars and Data , which is focused on the intersection between data and personal finance. In his day job, Nick is the Chief Operating O...

Brian Selmo: ‘Winning by Not Losing’ 15.07.2025

Our guest this week is Brian Selmo. Brian is a portfolio manager and research director at First Pacific Advisors. Since 2013, he has comanaged the FPA Crescent Fund with Steve Romick and Mark Landecker, and in 2021, he became comanager of the FPA Global Equity ETF. Both strategies are highly regarded by Morningstar’s Manager Research Team. Before joining FPA in 2008, Brian worked as an analyst at...

Salim Ramji: The Industry Uses Complexity As a Mask to Charge More 08.07.2025

We’re taping this podcast at the Morningstar Investment Conference, where we’re delighted to be joined by Vanguard CEO Salim Ramji, who joined Vanguard just about a year ago. Prior to joining Vanguard, Salim was a senior leader at BlackRock, where his most recent position was as global head of iShares and index investing. Before that, he was a senior partner at McKinsey & Company. Salim started hi...

JL Collins: The (Still) Simple Path to Wealth 01.07.2025

For this holiday week, we’re resurfacing one of our favorite episodes from 2025 so far. Author JL Collins talking about the new edition of his bestselling book, The Simple Path to Wealth . We hope that you’ll enjoy the episode, and we’ll be back with a brand-new one next week. In the meantime, happy Fourth of July. Hi, and welcome to The Long View . I’m Christine Benz, director of personal finance...

Eric Simonson: The Case for Flat-Fee Financial Advice 24.06.2025

Our guest on the podcast today is Eric Simonson. Eric is CEO of Abundo Wealth, an advice-only financial planning firm he founded in 2019. In addition, he heads up the Advice-Only Network, which is a platform dedicated to helping consumers find advice-only financial planners. Before starting Abundo, Eric was a financial advisor and managing director of Ameriprise Financial. He’s a certified financi...

Rosanne Corcoran: Caring and Support for Family Caregivers 17.06.2025

Our guest on the podcast today is Rosanne Corcoran. Rosanne is the Director of Content Strategy for Daughterhood.org, which is focused on creating community and providing resources to family caregivers. Rosanne also hosts a wonderful podcast called Daughterhood, the Podcast . In addition, she facilitates support groups and meetings for caregivers and has experience as a family caregiver herself. B...

The Morning Filter: 5 Rallying Stocks to Buy in June While They’re Still Undervalued 16.06.2025

Today on The Long View, we’re featuring an episode from another Morningstar podcast, The Morning Filter , which you can subscribe to on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Every Monday, Susan Dziubinski sits down with Morningstar Chief US Market Strategist Dave Sekera to discuss one thing that’s on his radar this week, one new piece of Morningstar research, and a few stock picks or p...

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