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Animal Spirits Podcast · 2026-01-19 · 29 min · 5,723 words

Talk Your Book: Structured Notes in an ETF

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Today's Animal Spirits Talk Your Book is brought to you by Simplify ETFs. Go to simplify.us to learn more about their whole suite of equity income ETFs at Simplify.us. Welcome to Animal Spirits, a show about markets, life, and investing. Join Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson as they talk about what they are reading, writing, and watching. All opinions expressed by Michael and Ben are solely their own opinion and do not reflect

the opinion of Rydholtz Wealth Management. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon for any investment decisions. Clients of Rydholtz Wealth Management may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this podcast. Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben. Today we talked to Jeff Schwardy from Simplify EPS.

We've talked to Paul Kim the founder of Simplify a number of times in the past, pretty much right from when they kind of founded, which I believe was like in the pandemic. And they've always tried to do things a little differently. Like very interesting, options-based, alternative. And they have this whole group of barrier ETFs.

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