Our Favorite Podcasts for Learning Finance

Swamped by the ever-growing list of new podcasts? How do you know what you’ll get searching “money,” “finance,” or, “investing,” on Spotify? Wizest has surveyed the landscape on your behalf, choosing our six favorite podcasts, each with a particular goal that our investors tend to have in mind.

Best for Daily News: Wall Street Journal’s What’s News

Quick and high-level, WSJ is currently outperforming all the rest with these reliable episodes averaging just fifteen minutes. Great for commuting with both morning and evening editions.

Best for Personal Finance: So Money

Don’t want to read the same personal finance gurus as mom and dad? Look no further. Farnoosh Torabi is bringing a much needed, diverse, and female-led facelift to a space long dominated by figures like Dave Ramsey. Practical financial advice on buying a house, buying versus leasing a new car, and special interviews dedicated to women’s and minority issues.

Best for Young Professionals: Millennial Investing – The Investor’s Podcast Network

Deep dive episodes into all the new ideas which differentiate the next generation of investing from the last one. Expert interviews on topics like cryptocurrency, investing psychology, student loans, and much more.

Best for Fintech and Startups: Breaking Banks with Brett King

More than ever, technology is mediating the way that we interact with our finances. New banking, trading, and finance apps are emerging daily. (Wizest included!) This podcast will keep you primed on everything tech and trending.

Best for Growing Expertise: We Study Billionaires – The Investor’s Podcast Network

This outlet landed on our list for a second time with a shockingly entertaining show that began like a book club: the two co-hosts reading about some of the most successful investors and entrepreneurs of all-time, then summarizing the lessons learned. Today, We Study Billionaires regularly features some of the titans that their hosts initially profiled.

Best for In-Depth Analysis: Bloomberg Masters in Business

Know your way around plenty of financial jargon? (If not, check out our primer.) Bloomberg Masters in Business offers competing perspectives on investing, often with timely analysis, from the movers and shakers behind today’s markets. If you’re advancing as a student of finance or are already an expert with Wizest, this show shares focused commentary from your peers.

Your Guide to Risk Tolerance

How to Determine the Investment Portfolio That Best Fits You The first step in any investor’s journey is identifying what your risk tolerance is when it comes to investments and your money. Investors are generally grouped into three types of risk categories – high, moderate, or low. These categories help determine how much risk you […]

Five Keys to Planning Your Personal Finances and Making Better Decisions

In times of uncertainty such as these, it is essential to make informed and responsible decisions about your finances, which requires setting specific short- and long-term goals, as well as seeking expert advice to guide you along the way. Investing is key to wealth building, however, it is difficult to get started without the […]

Wizest: A Quest to Democratize the Stock Market

Many Americans do not access investment opportunities in the stock market due to the barriers that the system has imposed in their path, which range from complicated processes, disinformation, or even more simply: they find it intimidating. This situation has, for the first time in decades, pushed the number of investors in the stock market […]

What is a SPAC?!

A Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) is a company set up by investors (SPAC sponsors) with the sole purpose of raising money through an initial public offering (IPO) to acquire another company. In short, a SPAC has the “special purpose” of solely raising money to “acquire” another company, but does not make any products or […]

An Introduction to Investing Terminology

Wizest was built to empower anyone to invest like a financial expert–through financial experts! Nevertheless, many of our users want to learn about the world of finance for themselves. Therefore, we’ve compiled this cheat sheet of finance and investing terminology. You may see them appear in the posts and bios of our Wizest experts. (When […]

A List of Great Investing Books, Organized by Skill Level (Part 1–Learn)

Never liked the look of finance textbooks or the business section at Barnes and Noble? Picking the right reads for your investing journey can be intimidating just like picking stocks and bonds. Here Wizest has compiled a list of all-time favorites among investing professionals, organized by skill level. (If podcasts are more your thing, no […]

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