When you see funds performing monumentally well, you may feel regretful for not investing in them earlier. There is, however, a long history of funds that skyrocketed only to have major falls from grace a brief period after. The bulk of today’s episode is spent exploring this idea in the portfolio topic section but before getting into that, we kick the show off with some updates. We begin by talking about the GameStop short and whether this casts any new light on the concept of market efficiency. From there, we take a look at some recent news, particularly one story about the meteoric growth of New York-based investment managers ARK Invest, who recently hit $50B in assets under management up from $3B this time last year. This story acts as a great segue into the portfolio topic where Ben traces a history of funds that performed colossally well for a brief period but then plummeted thereafter. These funds were under the direction of ‘star’ fund managers with a focus on investing in tech disruptors. The discussion acts as a cautionary tale about overpaying for growth leading to poor realized returns. For the planning topic, we continue to shine a light on the ‘Talking Cents’ card game, a financial literacy outreach strategy created by The University of Chicago Financial Education Initiative. We invite the director of the Financial Education Initiative, Rebecca Maxcy, onto the show to speak about some of the thinking around this project and then discuss a few of the questions posed by the cards ourselves. Tune in today! Books From Today’s Episode: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know — https://amzn.to/3tVMh0u Links From Today’s Episode: Rational Reminder on iTunes — https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-rational-reminder-podcast/id1426530582. Rational Reminder Website — https://rationalreminder.ca/ Rebecca Maxcy — https://financialeducation.uchicago.edu/about/team-membersGerard O’Reilly on The Long View Podcast — https://www.morningstar.com/podcasts/the-long-view/94 ‘Disagreements, Tastes, and Asset Prices’ — https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304405X06001954 The Story Behind The Market’s Hottest Funds — https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-story-behind-the-markets-hottest-funds-thematic-etfs-arkg-vegn-11610722419 Gerald Tsai Junior — https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1503697/gerald-tsai-playboy-financier-who-seduced-america ‘The Selection and Termination of Investment Management Firms By Plan Sponsors’ — https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229023346_The_selection_and_termination_of_investment_management_firms_by_plan_sponsors ‘Does Past Performance Matter in Investment Manager Selection?’ — https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318716252_Does_Past_Performance_Matter_in_Investment_Manager_Selection ‘On Persistence in Mutual Fund Performance’ — https://www.jstor.org/stable/2329556?seq=1 ‘Luck Versus Skill in The Cross Section Of Mutual Fund Returns’ — https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227505955_Luck_Versus_Skill_in_the_Cross_Section_of_Mutual_Fund_Returns ‘Does Scale Impact Skill?’ — https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2872385 ‘Mutual Fund Flows and Performance in Rational Markets’ — https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=383061 Talking Cents Cards — https://financialeducation.uchicago.edu/our-work/our-solutions/talking-cents