Ben Carlson

Talk Your Book: The Housing Market with Mike Simonsen

On today’s Talk Your Book, we are joined by Mike Simonsen, Founder and President of real estate analytics firm Altos Research to discuss how easy to access real estate data has affected buyers, the effects rates have on buyers and sellers, a realistic scenario for a housing market correction, thoughts on the iBuyer phenomenon, and much more!

Talk Your Book: Investing in BlackRock’s Mega Forces

On today’s show, we are joined by Jay Jacobs, U.S. Head of Thematic and Active ETFs to discuss BlackRock’s favorite Mega Force themes to invest in, investing in the reshoring theme, IBIT trading volume, the Ethereum ETF launch and Ethereum use cases, getting cash off the sidelines, and much more!

Talk Your Book: Investing in Corporate Culture

On today’s show, we are joined by Kristof Gleich of Harbor Capital and Scott Colson of Irrational Capital to discuss how the Human Capital Factor was discovered, what is being measured to quantify the Human Capital Factor, how advisors are utilizing this fund, the importance of portfolio construction when utilizing factors, and much more!