Benjamin Felix
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5,943 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
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And that's one of the things we talked to Tom Harden about is that his own desire to be successful was one of his big weak points that led him to do what he did.
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and part of our systems.
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Like we're not punishing people for bringing forward a mistake like that, which I think is how you could get to a place where they would want to hide it.
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Yeah, that's interesting.
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Mario, something that you mentioned a couple of times now that jumped out to me the way that I read through the book was it's often just regular, nice people who are doing bad stuff, but you mentioned psychopaths a couple of times.
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How worried should people in everyday life for d doing consuming financial services be about psychopaths?
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Yeah, I think you referenced the paper I think it's called the Market from Financial Misconduct, is that what it's called?
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Yeah, that's right.
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Advisors gravitate to certain firms after having conducted misconduct and then they end up
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One of the things that comes up in your case studies, Tom Harden is a good example, where when we had him on this podcast, he he tells his whole backstory and you can tell he's like he's a good person, he's raised well.
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If you asked younger Tom if he would do the things that he did, he would say absolutely not.
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But then he he did them.
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What causes that ethical drift in people over time?
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Or what can cause it?
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Jason has great stories of being an expert witness in those cases and providing the evidence that the advisor did not in fact know what they were doing, even if they thought that they did.
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I r I remember the first time that I understood how the RRSP and T FSA accounts work.
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Those are the registered accounts, the tax preferred accounts that we have in Canada, or at least two of them.
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And it was well after I had been licensed to sell mutual funds and insurance, which is terrifying.
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I remember that light bulb going off and being like, huh, it feels a little bit irresponsible that I was able to sell financial products without understanding this.
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Yikes.
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