About The Plain Bagel
The Plain Bagel is a YouTube channel run by Richard Coffin that posts bi-weekly videos on investments, economics, and personal finance, with the objective of providing basic, unbiased education that will empower viewers to make their own investment decisions. The channel is not affiliated with any financial institution.
The Plain Bagel was started in 2017, at first as a hobby to provide friends and family a resource for getting started with investing. Since then, the channel has reached over 100,000 subscribers.
About Richard
Hi, I’m Richard, the creator of The Plain Bagel. I’m a finance enthusiast living in Ottawa, Canada who has a passion for teaching and video editing.
A bit about myself; I’m currently an investment analyst for WDS Investment Management, a small wealth manager in Ottawa that’s been in business since 2002, and I’m working towards becoming a portfolio manager (i.e. directly investing money for clients). Outside of the world of investments, I’m a loving husband, board game connoisseur, and pub trivia player (though honestly I’m pretty bad).
For the channel, I do all the script writing, editing, animation, and…hosting? Yeah, sure, we’ll go with that.
About Craig
Hi, I’m Craig. I’m the off-screen voice heard in the Q&A videos and the person behind the camera in most of the other ones.
I’m a journalist working in Ottawa covering the business scene in Canada’s capital. I do that as the editor of the Ottawa Business Journal, a website and news magazine that’s been running for the past 25 years. As part of that work I also focus on Ottawa’s startup ecosystem with my own YouTube series, Techopia Live, where I interview Ottawa tech executives about their companies and the local sector. Outside of that I run a lot of Dungeons & Dragons games for friends and teach the game to youth. And I’m about on par with Richard’s pub trivia acumen.
For the channel, I do the filming and other production work.
