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10/16/2026

Models make uncertainty feel manageable. One of finance's most thoughtful historians offers a reminder about the thing they can never quite account for.

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10/14/2026

Bubbles are usually explained with charts and valuations. One writer on the psychology of money describes them as something far more human — and far more contagious.

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10/12/2026

There's a quiet assumption that financial success belongs to the clever. One long-time personal finance writer points somewhere far more ordinary — and far more repeatable.

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10/09/2026

Investors spend enormous energy on where to put their money. One veteran argues that a far less interesting decision matters more than any of it.

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10/09/2026

When a fund manager quotes a beta of 0.8, that number comes from a method published in 1805. The math behind modern factor analysis is older than most investors realize.



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10/07/2026

Pioneers of Probability: Carl Friedrich Gauss

In the last episode, Legendre gave science its most powerful practical tool for fitting models to noisy data. He showed how to find the line — the function — that minimizes the sum of squared errors. He proved it worked. But he did not fully explain why it was the right method rather than simply a convenient one.

Why squares? Why not absolute values? Why not cubes? Why is minimizing the sum of squared errors the optimal strategy rather than just the simplest?

The answer required understanding something deeper about the nature of measurement error itself. It required asking: if you measure the same quantity many times and get slightly different results each time, what does that pattern of errors actually look like? What is its shape?

A young German mathematician named Carl Friedrich Gauss had been thinking about exactly this problem since his early twenties. And the answer he found connected two of the most important ideas in the history of statistics into a single, elegant theorem.

Welcome to Pioneers of Probability.
https://www.ifa.com/videos/pioneers-of-probability-carl-friedrich-gauss

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This video is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation or recommendation to buy or sell any security. The historical and mathematical concepts discussed are intended to illustrate the development of probability theory and its relevance to investing. Past performance is not indicative of future results. All investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. Content is AI-assisted. Index Fund Advisors, Inc. is a registered investment adviser. For additional information, please visit adviserinfo.sec.gov or www.ifa.com.

10/07/2026

Checking your portfolio feels responsible — attentive, engaged, on top of things. One writer makes the case that the habit may be quietly working against you.

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10/06/2026

The boy who summed 1 to 100.⁠
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The story goes that a schoolboy, asked to add every number from 1 to 100, answered almost instantly. His name ended up on one of the most famous curves in science.⁠
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Full episode on Carl Friedrich Gauss https://youtu.be/1jCFSfb-4v4?si=Z8PjkanxwY0W6Fy1⁠
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For informational purposes only. Not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results. All investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal.⁠
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Presented by an AI-generated digital avatar of Mark Hebner, founder of Index Fund Advisors. Historical scenes are dramatized.

10/05/2026

Many people assume a good advisor earns their fee by finding the right investments. One industry veteran points to a very different source of value.

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10/05/2026

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It is 1801. In Palermo, Sicily. The astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi has spotted something new — a faint point of light moving against the stars. He tracks it night after night, but before he can pin down its orbit, it vanishes into the sun's glare. All he leaves behind for other astronomers is a handful of imperfect observations — each one slightly different from what any simple orbital model predicts.

The measurements are real. So are the errors. Given imperfect, inconsistent data, what's the best estimate of the true orbit? This isn't a gambling problem. It's the central practical problem of quantitative science: "We have data, we have a model, and the data never fits perfectly. How do we find the curve that comes closest to the truth?"

For centuries, scientists answered differently — averaging measurements, trusting the most reliable observation, or simply picking the result that fits their preferred theory. There was no agreed method, no proof that any approach was optimal. Until a French mathematician published a four-page appendix to a book about cometary orbits. Welcome to Pioneers of Probability with me Mark Hebner. https://www.ifa.com/videos/pioneers-of-probability-adrien-marie-legendre

Disclosure: This video is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation or recommendation to buy or sell any security. The historical and mathematical concepts discussed are intended to illustrate the development of probability theory and its relevance to investing. Past performance is not indicative of future results. All investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. This video contains AI-generated content. Index Fund Advisors, Inc. is a registered investment adviser. For additional information, please visit adviserinfo.sec.gov or www.ifa.com.

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