What’s the ROI on looksmaxxing?
It’s time to talk about "looksmaxxing," the internet's term for optimising everything about your appearance, and why so many of us are quiet...
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Raising The Curve
Victoria and Sophie (co-founders of The Curve) explore the world of finance and investing without any of complicated jargon. Whether you're a seasoned investor, or starting from the very beg...
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Why Oura pulled its $15BN IPO + is AI making us dumber?
First 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...
The Weekly: Women do the work, but men have the power
We'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...
Beginner's guide to stocks
What 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 basi...
Don’t invest all your eggs in one basket
Diversification is one of those words that sounds boring until it saves your portfolio. This episode breaks down what it actually means to s...
High Risk vs Low Risk Investments Explained
Risk is one of those words that sounds terrifying until you understand what it actually means. This episode walks through how to think about...
Cash, bonds, property, stocks: ranked by risk
There are four main asset classes: cash, bonds, property and stocks, and this episode ranks them from safest to riskiest and explains why. P...
The investing guide I wish I had in my 20s
Before anything else in investing makes sense, you need to understand return, volatility and why Einstein rated compound interest so highly....
The Curve is taking a short break
The 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 th...
Buying property with family or a partner, what could go wrong ...
Holly's back in the studio (this time in person) for another round of Curveballs, real listeners’ submitted property stories sent in after h...
A $6BN Divorce With No Prenup + Kendall Jenner's Investing Playbook
Lululemon'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 w...
The Weekly: Worst Interest Rates Since 2008 & Shein Loses $5bn in a week.
First up, government bond yields just hit levels not seen since the 2008 financial crisis, and the headlines are in full panic mode. Vic bre...
A Side Hustle From Her Bedroom Floor Became an 8-Figure Business.
Madi Stefanis started her business at 19 with one old film camera and a Facebook Marketplace listing. It sold for 5x the asking price, and t...
Hundreds of millions in the bank. Still took 18 years to turn a profit.
She'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 pr...
First fund update, Apple's new CEO, & the billion-dollar cost of climate change.
This 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...
The property millionaire who says stop buying.
This week, Soph is joined by The Curve’s angel investor, Nicole Bremner. At its peak, Nicole’s portfolio included stakes in over 110 propert...
Meta's $18 billion problem.
Soph and Emma pay tribute to Dolly Parton's legacy and the financial genius behind her career, from refusing to give Elvis half her songwrit...
Designer Babies, Anti-Aging & the $12.5B Lakers Deal.
This week we're asking an uncomfortable question: can money literally buy you a longer life? We dig into the eyebrow-raising world of biohac...
7 Questions to Ask Before You Buy an Investment Property.
Before Pete West buys a single investment property, he runs through 7 questions - skip one, and it could cost you thousands. Soph sits down...
Do you have "Emma Grede Disease"? Unpacking founder culture's biggest myth.
"Emma Grede disease" is TikTok's new shorthand for our collective obsession with founder culture - the private jets, the polished business p...