Insider’s list of investing podcasts [March 2025 update]
Key takeaways:
- The Lowe Group directory now includes 116 podcasts recommended for institutional and retail investors, financial advisors, and those focused on ETFs, retirement, impact investing, ESG and compliance.
- Bitcoin podcasts are breaking into the mainstream, with more to come.
- Leading podcasts are now offering starter packs and other curations for new listeners.
Today’s environment—distinguished by the volatility in the markets, policy uncertainty, investor confusion—is high season for the insights and information to be gained from listening to or watching investing podcasts.
Indeed, we kept that mind in our selection of the eight new shows included in the March 2025 update to our already robust list of Insider’s List of Investment Podcasts. At a time of uber attention to the markets, investing podcasts are showing off the advantages that financial cable news shows can’t compete with, including the luxury of time to fully explore a topic and an intimacy between interviewer, guest and listener. Add a video format for the market charts and the podcast listener wants for nothing.
“Remember to look at where you're going to, not what you're going through,” as the promotion for Orion’s Weighing the Risks podcast, new to the directory, says.
We’ll highlight a few of the latest additions:
- Adam Taggert makes his second appearance on our list with his role as moderator of the Thoughtful Money show. Lance Roberts, Tavi Costa and Judy Shelton were among the guests in just the last few weeks.
For an update on the recent world demand for gold, listen to the show with Andy Scheckman, CEO and Co-founder of Miles Franklin, a full service precious metals broker. For the first time in his 35-year career, the United States has become a net importer of gold.
“All of a sudden something changed,” says Scheckman, noting that the country has imported as much as 20 million ounces of gold since November. “The amount of gold that's coming into the country right now is unlike anything anyone has ever seen before. We saw the largest delivery in the history of the COMEX market—59,296 contracts, that's 5,929 600 ounces—stood for delivery in February, surpassing the previous largest order or delivery of 47,132 by 1.2 million ounces.
“Who's got that kind of money?...We can guess—is it Warren Buffett? Is it the Treasury? Is it the Federal Reserve? I don't know,” says Scheckman.
“The amount of gold that's coming into the country right now is unlike anything anyone has ever seen before."
- Recent pronouncements in Washington made me especially excited to come across Two Way Traffic, a cross-border podcast series hosted by Canadian Darren Coleman. Coleman describes himself as a specialist in cross-border financial planning—“with its many complexities, implications and advantages of having money and family on both sides of the border.” Previous show guests covered topics including exit taxes related to leaving the United States, headaches for Canadians buying U.S. property, and capital gains taxes.
The last episode dated Feb. 20 featured the perspective of Dennis Mitchell, CEO and CIO of Starlight Capital, a Canadian asset management firm. Listen for Mitchell’s perspective on Canada’s market advantages as the Trump administration clearly favors energy (“drill, baby, drill,” as the president said at his inauguration) and technology.
For example, Mitchell said, “The demand for energy in the United States is almost insatiable and will not be met without significant investment on both sides of the border…Over the next 20 years to support data center development [demands from Stargate and Microsoft among others] you are going to see data centers built that require as much power as the United States is currently producing…Use the volatility that Trump’s style creates to invest longer term in the trends that he supports.”
“The demand for energy in the United States is almost insatiable and will not be met without significant investment on both sides of the border."
- One of the older ETF publications, Chandler Publishing’s UK-based ETF Express, has been covering the space since 2006. Host Beverly Chandler keeps the Off the Record interviews breezy and generally under 20 minutes. Recent guests have included AllianceBernstein’s head of ETF Specialists Brett Sheely, Calamos Investments’ Matt Kaufman and ETF veteran Dave Nadig.
I especially enjoyed last year’s discussion comparing ETF distribution in the U.S. and in the many local markets of Europe, characterized by differences in language, tax treatments, how to deal with dividends, risk orientation, etc.
“It means that certain issuers may hold off and therefore Europe is dominated by the top American manufacturers at the moment—BlackRock/iShares, State Street, Vanguard are doing their utmost best to come to Europe. They have the punching power. What would be great is if other innovators would also join and follow suit and disrupt the space even further to make sure we’d get better products for better prices for our customers,” said Yorick Naeff of Bux Group. “The size of the pie in Europe is still too small,” Naeff said, noting that 75% of all ETF savings plans are in Germany.
"What would be great is if other ETF innovators would follow suit and disrupt the space even further to make sure we’d get better products for better prices for our customers."
- One might make the argument that all Americans have a fresh reason to study billionaires. While we’ve admired the We Study Billionaires show for a while, we’ve just come to add it to our list now because of its Bitcoin Fundamentals show on Wednesdays. The Insider’s List unabashedly presents the best of tradfi shows, but we recognize it’s time to diversify, and this podcast provides a way in. (We welcome recommendations for bitcoin-focused shows for the next update.)
We Study Billionaires offers starter packs—curated lists of episodes based on different topics. That’s a great idea for shows with a sizable back catalog. Popcorn Finance and the Meb Faber Show are among others that offer something similar. - In covering short selling, cellular phone networks, and Silicon Valley over the last several shows, At Barron’s has a broader scope than most in our directory. This show’s mojo has to do with the executive level of the conversation—it’s Barron’s editor-at-large Andy Serwer interviewing CEOs, which leads to some crisp bottom lining. Podcast listeners have a low tolerance for anything else.
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