Today’s Consumerism Commentary Podcast features two interviews. In the first segment, Tom Dziubek talks with Philip Taylor from PT Money: Personal Finance and Consumerism Commentary founder Flexo about this year’s Financial Blogger Conference.
In the second segment, Tom speaks with Jon Stein, founder and CEO of the online investing service Betterment. Jon discusses recent survey results about how young people have been financially planning for the future as well as Betterment’s new financial planning tool.
Financial Blogger Conference; Betterment’s New Financial Goal Tool: S05E25 / 154 & 153
Table of contents
[00:00] Introduction from Tom Dziubek
[00:43] Interview with Phillip Taylor and Flexo
– [00:59] The 2011 Financial Blogger Conference
– [01:54] The choice of Chicago
– [02:37] The conference itinerary
– [04:00] Funding and sponsors
– [06:04] Attendees of the event
– [07:00] The Plutus Awards
– [09:23] What happens in Chicago stays in Chicago
– [11:31] Flexo flies first class
[14:42] Interview with Jon Stein, Betterment
– [14:58] Explaining Betterment
– [16:04] Expected return on investment
– [17:47] Betterment’s survey on people’s financial planning
– [20:32] Betterment’s goal-based investment tool
– [22:30] Future plans for Betterment
[24:12] End
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Updated February 6, 2012 and originally published October 9, 2011. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the RSS feed or receive daily emails. Follow @flexo on Twitter and visit our Facebook page for more updates.
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Luke Landes founded Consumerism Commentary in 2003 and has been building online communities since 1990. Luke, also known as Flexo, has contributed to PC World Magazine, US News, Forbes, and other publications. 
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there appears to be an issue with the file, i’m not able to play the podcast.
Should be working now, thanks!
Rumors of my house-sitting have been greatly exaggerated.
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good podcast especially the segment about betterment.
Enjoyed being on the podcast, Flexo and Tom. Tom, you should definitely bring those jokes to the conference next year.