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Excess Returns
Excess Returns is dedicated to making you a better long-term investor and making complex investing topics understandable. Join Jack Forehand, Justin Carbonneau and Matt Zeigler as they sit down with some of the most interesting names in finance to discuss topics like macroeconomics, value investing, factor investing, and more. Subscribe to learn along with us.
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Jun 23, 2023 • 59min
Show Us Your Portfolio: Larry Swedroe
In our latest episode of Show Us Your Portfolio, we speak with Buckingham Strategic Wealth's Larry Swedroe. Larry has dedicated his career to educating investors and has written more books and articles than we can list in that pursuit.
We talk with Larry about how he takes his evidence-based approach to investing and translates it into managing his personal portfolio. We cover his approach to incorporating uncorrelated return streams into his overall approach, his unique use of assets outside of those traditionally used by investors, how he approaches equities and bonds, how his approach has changed over time and a lot more.
We hope you enjoy the discussion.
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Jun 21, 2023 • 56min
Factor Investing for Retirement with DFA's Mathieu Pellerin
In this episode, we combine two of the topics we often cover on the podcast. We talk both retirement planning and factor investing with Dimensional Fund Advisors Senior Researcher Mathieu Pellerin. Mathieu has conducted extensive research in both areas and we discuss two of his excellent papers: "Investing for Retirement Income: A Comparison of Asset Allocations and Spending Strategies" and "How Targeting the Size, Value, and Profitability Premiums Can Improve Retirement Outcomes".
We discuss the difference in success rates between wealth focused and income focused retirement strategies, the balance between optimizing return and failure risk in retirement planning and how factors can help boost the chances of retirement success.
We hope you enjoy the discussion.
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Jun 15, 2023 • 1h 5min
A Tour Around the Options World with SpotGamma's Brent Kochuba
There has been a lot going on in the options world that is impacting the stock market. The use of 0DTE (0 days to expiration) options has risen dramatically in recent months, options expirations have continued to be significant market moving events and an end of month trade by a JP Morgan fund many investors haven't heard of has also been a significant market driver. We also have a major options expiration coming up this week that might have significant implications for the market.
With everything going on in the options world, we thought it would be a great time to bring back our friend and options expert Brent Kochuba. Brent is the founder of SpotGamma and has been our go to resource to understand how what is going on in options is impacting the overall market. We cover all the issues above and get Brent's take on what they might mean for investors. He also shares some great charts with us to help us better put everything into context.
We hope you enjoy the discussion.
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Jun 9, 2023 • 1h 11min
Replicating Hedge Funds, Lessons from Bridgewater and the Outlook for Inflation with Bob Elliott
In this episode, we speak with Unlimited Funds founder Bob Elliott. We discuss the general landscape of the hedge fund industry including the strategies hedge funds employ, whether they add value from a return perspective and if the top performing hedge funds are able to maintain that status over time. We also discuss the challenges of replicating hedge fund returns and Unlimited's unique approach to doing it via the ETF wrapper. In the second half of the interview, we get Bob's take on the current macroeconomic environment, why inflation might be tougher to tame than many think, what the resolution of the debt ceiling issue might mean for markets and a lot more.
We hope you enjoy the discussion.
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Jun 7, 2023 • 56min
Seeking Persistent Growth in Technology Investing with Deepwater’s Gene Munster and Doug Clinton
Finding companies that can sustain persistent growth over long periods of time can lead to exceptional returns. Those of us who have witnessed the returns of the great technology companies of the past decade have seen that firsthand. But identifying those companies in advance can be incredibly difficult.
In this episode, we talk with Deepwater's Gene Munster and Doug Clinton about how they seek to find the great growth companies of the future. We discuss the characteristics of firms that achieve persistent growth and how they seek to find them. We also take a tour of the current major areas of innovation they are looking at including artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous vehicles, fintech and the metaverse and discuss the opportunities they see in each of them.
We hope you enjoy the discussion.
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Jun 1, 2023 • 1h 3min
Bridging Financial Planning and Factor Investing with Northern Trust's Peter Mladina
In this episode, we speak with Northern Trust's Peter Mladina. Peter has published extensive research in the areas of both financial planning and factor investing. We discuss his work in both areas and brought in our friend and co-host of our The Education of a Financial Planner podcast Matt Zeigler to help us with the questions on the planning side. We cover goals-based planning, modeling human capital, how to think about alpha in a post CAPM world, the future of the 60-40 portfolio and a lot more.
We hope you enjoy the discussion.
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May 25, 2023 • 54min
The Impact of ChatGPT on Investing with Alejandro Lopez-Lira
Like many investors, we have been thinking a lot about the impact that AI and large language models will have on investing. In this episode, we bring in an expert to help us sort it out.
We speak with University of Florida Professor of Finance Alejandro Lopez-Lira, who was worked extensively with this new technology and recently authored the paper "Can ChatGPT Forecast Stock Price Movements? Return Predictability and Large Language Models".
We discuss how ChatGPT works, its potential future impact on investing and what his research showed with respect to its ability to predict short-term stock price movements. We also take some time at the end to cover some of his other interesting asset pricing research.
We hope you enjoy the discussion.
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May 18, 2023 • 53min
Bridging Academic Research and Real World Investing with Vanguard's Kevin Khang
In this episode, we speak with Vanguard's Head of Active and Alternatives Research Kevin Khang. Kevin offers a unique perspective due to his experience both as a researcher and a practitioner. We discuss a variety of his research papers, including his work on tax loss harvesting, direct indexing, optimization in factor investing, using home equity in retirement and safe withdrawal rates.
We hope you enjoy the discussion.
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May 15, 2023 • 36sec
New YouTube Episode: 70 Experts Share Their Most Important Investing Lesson
In the first 200+ episodes of our podcast, we have interviewed many investing experts. At the end of all of those episodes, we have asked the same closing question:
Based on your experience in markets and your research, if you could teach one lesson to the average investor, what would it be?
We created a YouTube only episode to bring all of those insights together in one place.
You can find the episode on our YouTube channel or via the link below.
https://youtu.be/bbjGnp8gvQM
We hope you enjoy it.

May 11, 2023 • 53min
Show Us Your Portfolio: Harin de Silva
In our latest episode of Show Us Your Portfolio, we speak with Harin de Silva, Portfolio Manager at Allspring Global. We talk to Harin about how he manages his personal investments and his strategy for seeking out uncorrelated sources of return and dig into his unique approach to long short factor investing and how he incorporates it into his portfolio. We also discuss his view in international investing, his approach to private investing, the future of the 60-40 portfolio and a lot more.
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