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New Year. Same Markets. Better Media Diet.
If you want a resolution that will actually help your investing life in 2026, start here: clean up your media diet.
Not because we’re suggesting you avoid reality or pretend the world is calm. We mean something more practical: be ruthless about who gets access to your attention and what they’re trying to do with it.
Most financial media isn’t designed to help you invest well. It’s designed to keep you watching. So…
Everything is urgent.
Everything is breaking.
Everything is either a bubble or a collapse.
And the “right move” is always: stay tuned.
Your long view plan runs on a different fuel. It’s built on evidence, diversification, and the actual life you’re trying to fund. It’s built on what lasts, not what trends.
The best long view investors are not the ones consuming the most content. They are the ones protecting their attention, staying consistent, and making changes only when the facts change.
A simple filter for 2026:
Before you read or watch anything money-related, ask:
“How is the author trying to make me feel?”
If the answer is “anxious,” close the tab. Move on.
Attention is a financial asset. Treat it like one.
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A Real Person, When You Need One
Most of us know the feeling.
You have a question that matters. You call a company. And instead of a person, a menu of prompts, and the hope that someone on the other end will actually care.
We’ve always believed financial advice should feel more human than that.
At Hill Investment Group, our approach to service has been guided by a few simple principles:
- Be fast – Available and respond promptly
- Be friendly — Warm, thoughtful, and welcoming
- Take ownership — If it’s important to you, it’s important to us, and we’ll see it through
As we’ve evolved, we’ve spent a lot of time asking a simple question: How do we grow without losing what makes the experience personal?
One answer is to lean into our people.
Our team now works coast to coast, and we’re using that to better serve you. Historically, our phones have been answered live from 8:30am to 5:30pm Central Time. Beginning February 16th, we’re expanding live phone coverage so you can reach a real person from 8:00am to 8:00pm Eastern (5:00am to 5:00pm Pacific).
The experience won’t change. No phone trees. No prompts. No outsourcing. Just a knowledgeable member of our team who’s ready to help.
Outside of those hours, our existing voicemail, email, and secure texting options will remain in place.
We don’t view this as a feature or an upgrade. It’s simply part of our responsibility to serve you well. When something is on your mind, you shouldn’t have to wait or wonder if anyone is listening.
Thank you for trusting us with what matters to you. We’re committed to showing up with care, consistency, and a very human voice on the other end of the line.
Larry Swedroe on the Excess Returns Podcast
We’re grateful to have Larry Swedroe as both a longtime friend to Hill Investment Group and a foundational voice in the evidence-based investing community. For decades, Larry has helped investors cut through noise, resist prediction-driven thinking, and stay anchored in the data – an approach that has shaped our work and benefited the clients we serve.
In his latest appearance on the October 22nd Excess Returns podcast (the same show our CIO, Matt Zenz, joined recently), Larry brings that perspective to today’s big conversations around tariffs, immigration, AI, and market structure.
“HTC” WARNING: Be forewarned, this is Highly Technical Content, best consumed by the heavy-duty fact finders in our audience and to all those who want to take a deeper dive into why we believe what we believe.
If you only have a few minutes…
Jump to 33:05, where Larry explains why smaller, more nimble funds can access deeper exposures in areas like small-cap value – an insight that reinforces one of the key advantages of our own approach to managing The Longview Advantage ETF (EBI).
It’s a thoughtful, wide-ranging conversation, and we’re thankful for Larry’s ongoing partnership and the clarity he brings to evidence-based investing.
