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The ETF Experience: Rating Funds & Rating Portfolios: Podcast
FYI: Ben Johnson, Director of Global Research at Morningstar joins Phil Bak for a deep conversation about career and ETFs. They discuss: .After a false start in architecture, Ben discovered finance .Investing lessons from collecting baseball cards as kids .Morningstar’s ETF rating approach, including classifications .Persistence of top rated funds and predictive value of the ratings .How to rate portfolios of ETFs, and Morningstar’s new portfolio rating service .Ben defends market cap weighting, Phil makes the case that investors can do better .Morningstar’s conference and why the ETF and mutual fund conferences were merged .The outlook for non-transparent ETFs .The obstacle Ben had to overcome to move his career forward Regards, Ted http://exponentialetfsexceptionalpodcast.libsyn.com/rating-funds-rating-portfolios-ep43?utm_source=Daily+AR&utm_campaign=5d9fe56d13-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c08a59015d-5d9fe56d13-144127017