Financial Decoder
Hosted by Mark · Charles Schwab
4.7from 344 ratings
- 88
- Episodes
- 42
- Transcribed
- 344
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Financial Decoder
Cognitive and emotional biases can have a big impact on your financial life. Each episode of Financial Decoder looks closely at one financial decision--and the biases that might cloud your judgment and cost you money. Host Mark Riepe, head of the Schwab Center for Financial Research, decodes the behavioral and psychological factors at play and shares strategies designed to improve the way you approach financial crossroads. Other experts join Mark to provide their unique perspective on behavioral economics, portfolio management, retirement planning, personal finance and more. Podcasts are for informational purposes only. This channel is not monitored by Charles Schwab. Please visit schwab.com/contactus for contact options.
- Publisher
- Charles Schwab
- Category
- business · education · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 8 Feb 2021
- Latest episode
- 17 Aug 2026
Latest episodes
42 of 88 episodes have a transcript.
17 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
What Are the Keys to Lowering Financial Stress?
3 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Do IRAs Actually Work?
20 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
What's Really Driving Your Portfolio Decisions?
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What Are the Keys to Lowering Financial Stress?
Published 17 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So we have to ask questions to understand what the pressure as a messenger is trying to tell us. And one of my favorite questions that I've been asking clients for years is this. If we were sitting here a year from today and you said, I finally feel at peace about my finances, what would have changed? This question starts to shift the conversation away from dollars and cents and towards what they're really trying to accomplish. And as I said a moment ago, financial planning, it's not just about building wealth. It's about creating clarity and clarity about what's really causing the pressure allows you to make decisions and take actions that move you closer toward what you really want in life. […]
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- 4.7 / 5
- 308 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 36 ratings
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- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 97
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