{"id":35270,"date":"2015-10-25T14:59:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T18:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=35270"},"modified":"2016-12-15T11:51:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T16:51:12","slug":"tdi-podcast-the-inside-scoop-on-automated-investing-435","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/25\/tdi-podcast-the-inside-scoop-on-automated-investing-435\/","title":{"rendered":"TDI Podcast: The Inside Scoop on Automated Investing (#435)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-disciplined-investor\/id217999782\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-257 alignright\" title=\"iTunes Subscribe\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/itunes_subscribe3-2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Guest, Jon Stein, CEO and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betterment.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Betterment<\/a> explains the workings and benefits of automated investing &#8211; aka Robo-advice. We look at the target customer, details of how the process works and other areas of this fast growing business segment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oprah&#8217;s recent buy into Weight Watchers (WTW) provides for an interesting opportunity that may be emerging.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> \u00a0<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewhorowitz\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @andrewhorowitz<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" type=\"mce-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Jon-Stein.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35271 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Jon-Stein-252x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Stein\" width=\"132\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>Jon \u00a0Stein \u00a0is the CEO and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betterment.com\/\">Betterment<\/a>. Passionate about making life better, and with his experience from his career of advising banks and brokers on risk and products, he founded Betterment in 2008. \u00a0Jon \u00a0is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Business School, and he holds Series 7, 24, 63, and is a CFA, Chartered Financial Analyst. His interests lie at the intersection of behavior, psychology, and economics. What excites him most about his work is making everyday activities and products more efficient, accessible, and easy to use.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Betterment&#8217;s Mission Statement<\/span>: <em>We want to democratize financial advice and management. We believe we can deliver personalized, optimal advice which is immediately implementable, and we can manage client portfolios continuously.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We aim to make the hurdle and burden of achieving your financial goals as low as possible, yet give you as much control and discretion over your finances as possible.<\/p>\n<p>We aim to optimize not just your investments, but also your behavior. Our advice and portfolio management integrate the best of modern finance and behavioral finance. We understand success is a function of both investment management and investor management through the ups and downs.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Looking to invest in The Disciplined Investor Managed Growth Strategy?<br \/>\nClick <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/mailbox\/tdi-investment-fund\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong> for the virtual tour&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_932\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode435.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('932','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode435.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/TDI_PlayPodcast-679.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode435.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=35270-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode435.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"tdi_episode435.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 49:27 &#8212; 27.2MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5vtvEVDPUi4221imwhXyXt\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Markets-and-Investing\/The-Disciplined-Investor-p414586\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest, Jon Stein, CEO and founder of Betterment explains the workings and benefits of automated investing &#8211; aka Robo-advice. We look at the target customer, details of how the process works and other areas of this fast growing business segment. Oprah&#8217;s recent buy into Weight Watchers (WTW) provides for an interesting opportunity that may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_933\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode435.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('933','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode435.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/TDI_PlayPodcast-679.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode435.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=35270-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/tdi_podcast\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/podcasts\/tdi_episode435.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"tdi_episode435.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 49:27 &#8212; 27.2MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5vtvEVDPUi4221imwhXyXt\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Markets-and-Investing\/The-Disciplined-Investor-p414586\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,186,12,9,296,42],"tags":[482,297],"class_list":["post-35270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-marketmash","category-markets","category-podcasts","category-shownotes","category-stocks","tag-podcasts","tag-show-notes","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}