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#30: Meb Faber On The Future Of Investment Management

Superinvestors and the Art of Worldly Wisdom

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The Benefits of Investing in the US Stock Market

The Washington Post fund, which oddly has been our most popular fund this year, buys a bunch of puts on the US stock market and pairs it with government bonds. It looks somewhat like an inverse S&P fund over time, but the bond, the income of the bonds, which is now 2% and going south quickly, covered the cost of buying puts on the stock market. So for some people, it's a wonderful head to what they're doing. If you go back to Q4 2018, just to see if the market and their portfolio is down 1., 5%, 10%, to see something that's green is helps them get through," he said.

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