Interview with Brian Barnes, Founder and CEO of M1 Finance

Paul and Chris interview M1 Finance's CEO, Brian Barnes, and ask several listener questions.

This is the follow-up to their previous M1 Finance 2024 update podcast and YouTube video.  

They start by asking Brian how and why he created the company. That's followed by a wide-ranging conversation that includes some interesting surprises, like Chris's realization that using M1's target-date pies instead of traditional target-date funds can result in some real tax efficiency.

Here's the topic list with time codes.

00:00:00 Intro

00:08:12 M1 Genesis

00:12:51 Partial-Share ETF Trading

00:15:59 Who is M1 for?00:19:42 What's next?

00:22:44 Is M1 a robo-advisor?  

00:25:36 M1 Pies

00:29:38 Pies vs. TDFs00:34:32 Tax Efficiency

00:35:46 How safe is M1?

00:41:13 Fixed trade windows

00:48:07 Crossing orders

00:49:22 Competitive rates

00:51:29 Which ETFs?

00:53:19 Fees?

00:57:07 Multi-account rebalancing?

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