Episode 401: Eduardo Repetto & Caitlin Ebanks - Opening the Avantis CAGE
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This is the Rational Reminder Podcast, a weekly reality check on sensible investing and financial decision making from two Canadians. We're hosted by me, Benjamin Felix, Chief Investment Officer, and Cameron Passmore, Chief Executive Officer at PWL Capital. And welcome to episode 401 and Ben. The evolution continues, and this week we were joined by I guess that a lot of listeners will know, Eduardo Rapetto of Avantis.
We're talking about the launch of the Avantis ETFs in Canada and the evolution certainly is continuing. We talked about that in the episode. But I think it is an exciting time for investors in Canada. This is something that we've been asking Eduardo about since this is his third time, I believe, as a guest on the podcast. We've asked him every time, when are you guys going to come to Canada?
And they launched USIT products for European investors. First, they've launched Australia, I think Eduardo mentioned as well, and now they're finally launching products in Canada in partnership with CIBC ETFs, which is pretty cool. And they talk about Caitlin from CIBC and Eduardo talk a little bit about the sort of genesis of that partnership and the things that they had to agree on and did agree on for this whole thing to work from both of their perspectives. It's a super exciting time where we built some, I mean, Frankenstein's not quite the right term, but we hacked together some factor-tilted model portfolios years ago. It's kind of the history of this podcast where we were talking about dimensional funds, which we use extensively at PWL, and we would talk about factor tilts and small cap value and premiums and multi-factor asset pricing and all that kind of stuff.
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