Recommended Podcasts

Our Podcast List

We want to offer members additional resources to help build financial and investment knowledge outside of our meetings. Here are some of our Podcast recommendations for beginner and seasoned investors alike:

NPR Planet Money

NPR Planet Money, launched in 2008, during the Great Recession. It explains that state of the global economy with creative and entertaining take. It has won many awards since its launch, such as, Peabody, and Edward R. Murrow award, due to Planet Money's coverage and investigation of into Well's Fargo retaliation against whistle-blowers. Each podcast episode is around 15-30 minutes.

NPR The Indicator

Known as "the branch off of Planet Money", The Indicator, also produced by NPR, and launched in 2017. In this podcast, the Indicator, looks at well... the key economic indicators that are causing changes in economics. Each podcast episode is around 10 minutes or less.

Freakonomics Radio

Stephan J. Dubner, co-author of the Freakonomics book, host a podcast that discuss about economic changes, specifically in the United States economy, between insiders, professors of economics, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs.

The Success Equation

In most domains of life, skill and luck seem hopelessly entangled. Different levels of skill and varying degrees of good and bad luck are the realities that shape our lives—yet few of us are adept at accurately distinguishing between the two. Imagine what we could accomplish if we were able to tease out these two threads, examine them, and use the resulting knowledge to make better decisions.

In this provocative book, Michael Mauboussin helps to untangle these intricate strands to offer the structure needed to analyze the relative importance of skill and luck. He offers concrete suggestions for making these insights work to your advantage. Once we understand the extent to which skill and luck contribute to our achievements, we can learn to deal with them in making decisions. -Amazon

Competitive Strategy

Michael E. Porter unravels the rules that govern competition and turns them into powerful analytical tools to help management interpret market signals, forecast the direction of industry development, and position any company to compete more successfully. -Google Books

Pioneering Portfolio Management

(Required Reading for Business Class 438: Portfolio Management)

During his fourteen years as Yale's chief investment officer, David F. Swensen has transformed the management of the university's portfolio. Largely by focusing on nonconventional strategies, including a heavy allocation to private equity, Swensen has achieved an annualized return of 16.2 percent, which has propelled Yale's endowment into the top tier of institutional funds. Now, this acknowledged leader of fund managers draws on his experience and deep knowledge of the financial markets to provide a compendium of powerful investment strategies. -Amazon