The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing
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Ready to grow your wealth through smarter investing decisions? With The Meb Faber Show, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investment fund manager, Meb Faber, brings you insights on today’s markets and the art of investing. Featuring some of the top investment professionals in the world as his guests, Meb will help you interpret global equity, bond, and commodity markets just like the pros. Whether it’s smart beta, trend following, value investing, or any other timely market topic, each week you’ll hear real market wisdom from the smartest minds in investing today. Better investing starts here. For more information on Meb, please visit MebFaber.com. For more on Cambria Investment Management, visit CambriaInvestments.com.
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May 31, 2024 • 52min
KraneShares' Brendan Ahern: Is China Investable? | #535
Brendan Ahern, CIO at KraneShares, discusses China's economy, US election impact, KWEB, currency hedging, TikTok ban, and memorable investments. Examines China's stock market, regulatory changes, and global market dynamics, debating China's investability and future plans for KraneShares.
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May 24, 2024 • 41min
Michael Melissinos - Mastering the Art of Trend-Following | #534
Guest Michael Melissinos, founder of Melissinos Trading, shares insights on trend-following trading strategies, emphasizing removing bias, risk management, and sticking to a system. Topics include market selection, pitfalls of overriding systems, trading during the COVID crash, and the downfall of the 60/40 portfolio. Discusses long term vs short term systems and memorable investments.
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May 10, 2024 • 1h 18min
Eric Crittenden & Jason Buck Explain Why Best Investors Follow the Trends | #533
Eric Crittenden, CIO of Standpoint Asset Management, and Jason Buck, CIO of Mutiny Funds, discuss trend-following sentiment and optimal diversifiers. They touch on the Herschel Walker trade, portfolio construction, diversification myths, away from 60/40 portfolios, interest abroad, Paul Mulvaney's success, and pairing trend following with factor investing.
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May 3, 2024 • 44min
Hendrik Bessembinder - Do Stocks Outperform T-Bills? | #532
Hendrik Bessembinder, a professor at Arizona State University, discusses his research on stock market returns with Meb. They talk about power laws driving returns, the importance of holding onto winners, shared traits among top stocks, and challenges of mutual fund performance. Hank's findings emphasize diversification and the difficulty of retaining big winners in a portfolio.
Apr 26, 2024 • 46min
GMO's Catherine LeGraw - Capitalizing on Global Asset Allocation in 2024 | #531
Catherine LeGraw from GMO's Asset Allocation Team discusses the current asset allocation opportunity, deep value and quality investments, foreign stock opportunities, the Magnificent 7 strategy, currency implications, the state of bonds, and other interesting assets. She also shares her most controversial opinion and memorable investment.
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Apr 19, 2024 • 55min
Professor Kenneth French on Risk, Return, and Rationality | #530
Professor Kenneth French, Roth Family Distinguished Professor of Finance at Tuck School of Business, discusses long-term investing, global market portfolio, stock buybacks misconceptions, human capital, and improving financial education with Meb Faber.
Apr 12, 2024 • 16min
MEBISODE: T-Bills and Chill…Most of the Time | #529
This podcast episode explores bond investing beyond T-Bills, analyzing various bond options and strategies, including the correlation between bond prices and values. It discusses investment simulation, asset allocation, and a tactical approach to fixed income investing for improved returns and lower volatility.
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Apr 5, 2024 • 1h 7min
Cliff Asness: Timely & Timeless Investment Wisdom | #528
Guest Cliff Asness from AQR Capital Management discusses diversification, managing client expectations, alternative trend-following strategies, and implementing AI in investing. They explore real vs fake quotes, moving away from market cap weighting, and Cliff's most controversial opinion. Discover how AQR is using AI in their investment process.
Mar 29, 2024 • 49min
Indexing Nevada PERS: Steve Edmundson’s $60 Billion Strategy | #527
Steve Edmundson, CIO of Nevada's $60 billion retirement system, discusses the simplicity of indexing all publicly traded asset classes. He shares insights on cultural approach, private markets, and impact of higher interest rates. Emphasizes quality asset allocation, fee reduction, and managing a $60 billion portfolio. Explores strategies for high-quality bias in asset allocation and navigating bizarre market landscape with zero interest rates. Discusses indexing, rebalancing, and disciplined investment strategies in market movements.
Mar 22, 2024 • 18min
MEBISODE: Should CalPERS Fire Everyone And Just Buy Some ETFs? | #526
Exploring CalPERS management and investment strategy, analyzing portfolio performance and comparing to benchmark strategies. Discussing portfolio replication, risk parity, and Bridgewater's alpha strategy. Emphasizing the benefits of strategic portfolio design using ETFs for lower fees and taxes.
