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InvestED: Ep. 209- How to Love Investing [From Ask Us Anything Call]
This week Phil and Danielle playback a couple of really good questions that were asked in their “Ask Us Anything” call. The first question is about teaching your kids about investing. Phil tried to teach Danielle when she was younger to get her involved with investing. Ben has tried to get his daughter to read Invested without any luck. Phil and Danielle provide a bit of advice on how to get kids interested in investing. Read more.
InvestED: Ep. 208- Jacob Taylor Author of “The Rebel Allocator”
Why did Charlie Munger personally call Jacob Taylor? Read more.
InvestED: Ep. 207- Inverted Yield Curve
“Now this isn’t necessarily the end of the stock market run. But given the fact that we’ve had a 10-year stock market run, which is a world record. We’re way overdue for a major downturn.” – Phil Town
This week Phil and Danielle talk about the fact that 30% of the stock market is not invested in individual stocks, but in indexes. Many investors fear the effects of so many people owning indexes rather than the underlying companies. Read more.
InvestED: Ep. 206- Finding Buffett
This week Phil and Danielle discuss the importance of making your own investing choices. It’s easy for someone to follow Warren Buffett and to likely make money if you mirror his choices, but it’s what happens when he pulls his money out of the market and you don’t know what to do with your money… that’s when you run into trouble.
InvestED: Ep. 205- Warren Buffett’s Annual Letter
This week Phil and Danielle talk about why Charlie Munger is so bitter about missing out on a stock purchase in the 1970s. Phil talks about what he calls “Mistakes of Omission”. Read more.
InvestED: Ep. 204- Short-Termism
“Most of the time, the actions of fund managers are rational in the sense of protecting their jobs. They’re not rational when it comes to getting great long-term results. That’s why most fund managers never beat the market.” – Phil Town
In this episode, Danielle and Phil discuss why short term viewpoints in the stock market are terrible. When analysts upgrade or downgrade a stock and the price drops, it’s terrible. When companies miss on earnings and the market responds with stock price dips, it’s terrible. Read more.
InvestED: Ep. 203- Charlie Munger Daily Journal Annual Meeting
“I’ve always realized that if we worked really hard we could find a few things where we were right about and those few things were enough.” – Charlie Munger, Daily Journal Annual Meeting, 2019
This week Phil and Danielle discuss key takeaways from Charlie Munger’s Daily Journal Annual Meeting that took place at the end of February 2019.
InvestED: Ep. 202- The Glass Ceiling
“Investing is a set of skills, an attitude, and a world view that is completely learnable.” – Phil Town
This week Phil and Danielle discuss why the financial industry doesn’t want you to have the ability to do what they do. They don’t want to give you the “secret formula” so they make finance seem complicated. You don’t know Sharpe Ratio. You don’t know Capital Asset Pricing Models. You don’t know how to adjust for the Beta. Here’s the bottom line though, all of these things that are taught in the business schools, are BS. Read more.
InvestEd: Ep. 201- Investing Success & Indexing
“One of the things that I’ve done right in my life is to copy people who are really, really successful.” – Phil Town This week Phil and Danielle continue their discussion of Ray Dalio’s 5 principles for inevitable success. If you haven’t listened to episode 200 you probably want to start there. Ray’s 5 principles Read more.
InvestED: Ep. 200- 5 Principles for Inevitable Success
“It would be a wise thing to do if you want to be successful, to look seriously at what successful people say they do. And then do that.” – Phil Town This week Phil and Danielle celebrate the 200th episode of InvestED: The Rule #1 Podcast! During this episode, we talk about how you can Read more.