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The Curve is a platform to learn more about money. To change the stereotype that these conversations are typically boring, and only for men in suits. Victoria has worked in the finance and investing world for 13 years, and Sophie is a total novice. Learn alongside her as she asks all the questions you're thinking, but might feel a little embarrassed to ask. This podcast will give you all the tools and knowledge to achieve financial freedom, as well as (hopefully) having a laugh along the way.
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- Pay transparency is coming, how to ask for more & which degrees actually pay off · 48 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 204Someone in The Curve community sent us a screenshot that sums it up: a supervisor finding out the man they supervise earns £4k more than them. Right now only 51% of UK job ads…
- The Weekly: The midterm market crash, The Curve Fund’s October update & why David Jones collapsed · 48 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 203The US midterms sent markets soaring, then a day later they fell hard. Vic explains what spooked investors and what a fund manager actually weighs up when prices drop: buy now…
- How to build your own money playbook (with a little help from AI) · 52 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 241Madi Stefanis was introduced to investing by her mum at 18, starting with small, regular amounts from her paycheck. Now 26 and the founder of 35mm Co., she invests every Friday…
- The Weekly: Inside Anthropic’s IPO filing & why Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t want your vote · 46 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 202Anthropic just filed to go public, and it could be the biggest IPO in history. Vic breaks down what’s actually in the filing: wild revenue growth, a cash pile bigger than Apple’s…
- How the NZ election could change your pay, your KiwiSaver and your rental · 32 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 201New Zealand votes on 7 November, and this election could change more about your money than you think. Soph admits she’s never read a policy in her life, so Vic walks her through…
- What nobody tells you about buying a house at auction · 47 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 240Hannah Hart started saving for a house at 10 and built her first property by 21. Buying the home she lives in now took four to five months, four auctions and a lot of tears. She…
- The Weekly: Shopped at ASOS? Your data could be out there & Victoria’s Secret’s comeback · 50 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 200Soph and Emma Louise-Boynton get into the ASOS hack, where hackers messaged customers directly through the app after the company wouldn’t pay up. We talk about how these digital…
- The Weekly: Why Netflix’s shares fell & EssilorLuxottica's best day since 2008 · 38 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 199It’s reporting season, when listed companies hand in their report cards and share prices swing on the results. This week Soph and Vic dig into two of them. Netflix grew its…
- Vic said no to Goldman Sachs and ended up making $400k by 26 · 50 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 239Part two of Meet the Founders. After Soph shared her money story, the requests for Vic's kept coming, so our Producer, Emily, and Digital & Social Manager, Lucy, sat her down for…
- The Weekly: Bumble's Reverse IPO, LVMH’s Plummeting Shares, & Is a Chanel Bag a Good Investment? · 48 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 198Bumble was once worth US$14 billion. Now it’s being bought for US$1.3 billion and taken private, and the app built on women going first will be run by two men. Soph and Emma get…
- The Weekly: AMD’s $1tn month, Warner Bros CEO drama & The Curve Fund is now on Sharesies · 37 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 197Vic is officially back in New Zealand with big news: The Curve Fund is now live on Sharesies. She explains why September is so often a rough month for markets, the best analogy…
- If he buys you a lab-grown ring, does he still love you? · 1 h 1 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 238Today we're talking lab grown versus natural diamonds, and by the end of it, neither of us landed exactly where we thought we would. Sophie sits down with Martha…
- The Weekly: Sydney Sweeney’s Prediction Market and the Generation Beauty Forgot · 47 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 196Emma Louise Boynton is back, filling in for Vic. Sydney Sweeney’s “just sports” ad caused a stir, but the bigger story is that she’s an investor in Novig, the prediction market…
- The Weekly: Mortgage rates hit 6%, the US$200bn pill race and why we hold on to bad investments · 40 min · Temporada 2UK mortgage rates have hit 6% for the first time since Liz Truss’s mini-budget, yet the Bank of England hasn’t raised rates. So who’s pushing them up, and why does it matter even…
- What’s the ROI on looksmaxxing? · 50 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 231It’s time to talk about "looksmaxxing," the internet's term for optimising everything about your appearance, and why so many of us are quietly pouring hundreds (or thousands) of…
- Why Oura pulled its $15BN IPO + is AI making us dumber? · 58 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 194First up, Oura was about to go public. It was looking to raise $2.2 billion at a valuation of more than $15 billion, then pulled out at the last minute. We break down what an IPO…
- The Weekly: Women do the work, but men have the power · 46 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 193We're back from our break, and we're kicking things off with not one but two personal updates. Soph opens with some very happy news, and Vic's comes right at the very end, so…
- Beginner's guide to stocks · 26 min · Temporada 1What is a share price, how is it actually set, and what makes it move up or down. This episode breaks the stock market down to its most basic level, buyers and sellers in a…
- Don’t invest all your eggs in one basket · 27 min · Temporada 1Diversification is one of those words that sounds boring until it saves your portfolio. This episode breaks down what it actually means to spread your risk, why the stock market…
- High Risk vs Low Risk Investments Explained · 31 min · Temporada 1Risk is one of those words that sounds terrifying until you understand what it actually means. This episode walks through how to think about your own risk appetite, why investing…
- Cash, bonds, property, stocks: ranked by risk · 22 min · Temporada 1There are four main asset classes: cash, bonds, property and stocks, and this episode ranks them from safest to riskiest and explains why. Property in particular gets a reality…
- The investing guide I wish I had in my 20s · 29 min · Temporada 1Before anything else in investing makes sense, you need to understand return, volatility and why Einstein rated compound interest so highly. This episode breaks down what people…
- The Curve is taking a short break · 3 min · Temporada 1The Curve is pausing new episodes for the next couple of weeks. Soph's away and Vic is in the middle of moving back to New Zealand to run the fund, so rather than rush new…
- Buying property with family or a partner, what could go wrong ... · 45 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 231Holly's back in the studio (this time in person) for another round of Curveballs, real listeners’ submitted property stories sent in after her last two episodes went viral. Soph…
- A $6BN Divorce With No Prenup + Kendall Jenner's Investing Playbook · 33 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 192Lululemon's founder is getting divorced after 20+ years of marriage, and there's no prenup on a fortune worth over $6 billion. We get into what that means for his wife (one of…
- The Weekly: Worst Interest Rates Since 2008 & Shein Loses $5bn in a week. · 38 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 191First up, government bond yields just hit levels not seen since the 2008 financial crisis, and the headlines are in full panic mode. Vic breaks down what a bond yield actually…
- A Side Hustle From Her Bedroom Floor Became an 8-Figure Business. · 48 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 230Madi Stefanis started her business at 19 with one old film camera and a Facebook Marketplace listing. It sold for 5x the asking price, and that was the beginning of a side hustle…
- Hundreds of millions in the bank. Still took 18 years to turn a profit. · 47 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 190She's got 33 million followers and one of the most photographed families on the planet. It still took Victoria Beckham 18 years to turn a profit, and £66m in debt to get there…
- First fund update, Apple's new CEO, & the billion-dollar cost of climate change. · 48 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 189This week, Soph and Vic share the Curve Fund's very first monthly update and break down the biggest movers, including Estée Lauder's and AMD. They also get into Apple's new CEO…
- The property millionaire who says stop buying. · 43 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 229This week, Soph is joined by The Curve’s angel investor, Nicole Bremner. At its peak, Nicole’s portfolio included stakes in over 110 properties. In this episode, the pair get…
- Meta's $18 billion problem. · 59 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 188Soph and Emma pay tribute to Dolly Parton's legacy and the financial genius behind her career, from refusing to give Elvis half her songwriting credit to owning her entire…
- Designer Babies, Anti-Aging & the $12.5B Lakers Deal. · 49 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 187This week we're asking an uncomfortable question: can money literally buy you a longer life? We dig into the eyebrow-raising world of biohacking billionaires spending millions to…
- 7 Questions to Ask Before You Buy an Investment Property. · 42 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 228Before Pete West buys a single investment property, he runs through 7 questions - skip one, and it could cost you thousands. Soph sits down with Pete (the property investor…
- Do you have "Emma Grede Disease"? Unpacking founder culture's biggest myth. · 58 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 186"Emma Grede disease" is TikTok's new shorthand for our collective obsession with founder culture - the private jets, the polished business profile, the highlight reel version of…
- Samsonite buys BÉIS, Selena Gomez gets sued & Anthropic's $1 trillion IPO · 50 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 185Samsonite just bought a chunk of Shay Mitchell's luggage brand Beis; a 116-year-old company getting cool by buying it rather than building it. We unpack why this "buy vs. build"…
- Is your wedding for you, or for Instagram? · 51 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 227Over 50% of US couples go into debt paying for their wedding, and 1 in 3 regret how much they spent. So what's actually driving the cost up, and what do people wish they'd spent…
- What AOC's public egg freezing journey reveals about the cost of fertility. · 1 h 12 min · Temporada 2Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is freezing her eggs and sharing every part of the process with her 6 million+ followers; the hormone injections, the bloating, the…
- Alix Earle vs Alex Cooper: the tea is in the balance sheets. · 52 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 183Sophie and Vic get into why Alix Earle might be one of the smartest businesswomen on the internet right now, quietly building her own VC firm off the back of her TikTok reach…
- The holiday hangover nobody talks about: your bank account. · 46 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 226When you look at a big financial goal, it’s easy to get overwhelmed before you even start. You know you need a buffer for when life goes wrong, and you know you want to save for…
- OnlyFans: exploitation dressed up as empowerment. · 1 h 2 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 182Soph and Emma spring off the back of Margot's Got Money Troubles to unpack what's actually going on with OnlyFans. They investigate who's really making money on the platform, how…
- Is being chronically single the new savings hack? · 47 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 181Vic is officially back in the studio after a month-long hibernation in New Zealand! Reunited with Soph, the dream team unpack how the cost of living crisis is rewiring the dating…
- Money buys freedom, not things: a financial coach explains. · 46 min · Temporada 1Hannah Mayfield swapped a career in fashion for financial coaching, and now teaches thousands of people how to build real financial freedom, not just save for the sake of it. In…
- Can women afford to not botox? · 1 h 5 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 180This week, Sophie and Emma finally have the conversation they've been avoiding for months (maybe years): what beauty spending actually costs women over a lifetime, and whether…
- 50k guaranteed or flip for a million? (The answer says a lot about you). · 43 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 179Would you take a guaranteed 50k or flip a coin for a shot at 1 million? A new YouGov poll reveals a huge gender gap in who's willing to take the risk, and Sophie and Abi discuss…
- Introducing… The Curve Investments. · 50 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 224The secret's finally out: The Curve Investments is FINALLY here. If you've been with us since the dusty, windowless studio days, this is the moment we've been building towards…
- Why more families than ever are ending up in court over wills. · 39 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 178Family disputes over wills and inheritance have risen by almost 130% in the last decade. We break down exactly why; from rising dementia rates to blended families and second…
- Chat GPT, Claude; meet your FREE rival. · 40 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 177A Chinese startup called Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3 - the world's largest open source AI model, and it's already rivaling the AI tools we all use every single day. It's…
- Property investing isn’t dead, you’re just doing it wrong. · 53 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 223Pete has spent 10 years in the property game, helping people build their wealth, including Sophie! In this episode, they team up to unpack the crucial things most buyers quietly…
- The Book Everyone's Talking About (And Why It's Terrifying). · 1 h 3 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 176This week on The Curve Weekly, we are joined by writer, broadcaster, journalist and founder of Sex Talks, Emma Louise-Boynton. We dive into Belle Burton's ‘Strangers’, the memoir…
- Buy Now, Pay Later Can Now Wreck Your Credit Score. · 47 min · Temporada 2 Episodio 175This week Sophie's joined by chartered accountant, author and finance creator Abi Foster (filling in for Vic) to unpack the UK's brand-new Buy Now, Pay Later regulations - why…
