Episode #40: “Listener Q&A”

Episode #40: “Listener Q&A”   Guest: Episode #40 has no guest, but is co-hosted by Meb’s co-worker, Jeff Remsburg. Date Recorded: 2/14/16     |     Run-Time: 51:29 Summary:  We’ve had some great guests recently, and have many more coming up, so we decided to slip in a quick Q&A episode. No significant, recent travel for Meb, so we dive...

The State of the RoboSphere

I update this chart on occasion mainly out of curiosity.  If you have any more recent figures fire 'em over and I'll correct... Click to enlarge  

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Episode #39: Ed Thorp, Hedge Fund Manager, Author, & Professor, “If You Bet Too Much, You’ll Almost Certainly Be Ruined”

Episode #39: Ed Thorp, Hedge Fund Manager, Author, & Professor, “If You Bet Too Much, You’ll Almost Certainly Be Ruined”   Guest: Ed Thorp is an American mathematics professor, hedge fund manager, and blackjack player. To beat roulette, he and the father of information theory, Claude Shannon, invented the first wearable computer. Along with innovative applications of...

Episode #38: EVBettor, Dr. Bob Sports, “Special Super Bowl Show: It’s Higher-Stakes Poker is What You’re Playing”

Episode #38: EVBettor, Dr. Bob Sports, “Special Super Bowl Show: It’s Higher-Stakes Poker is What You’re Playing”    Guest: Our guest today prefers to be anonymous, instead going by the alias, “E.V. Better.” E.V. works in predictive analytics at Dr. Bob Sports. Date Recorded: 2/1/17     |     Run-Time: 1:12:33 Summary: In honor of this Sunday’s Super Bowl, Episode...

Episode #37: John Bollinger, Bollinger Capital Management “People Have This Time-Frame Confusion That I Think Does A Huge Amount Of Damage”

Episode #37: John Bollinger, Bollinger Capital Management “People Have This Time-Frame Confusion That I Think Does A Huge Amount Of Damage”    Guest: John Bollinger is the president and founder of Bollinger Capital Management. An avid researcher, he has developed a number of widely used investment tools and analytical techniques. His Bollinger Bands® and related tools have...

Harvard Makes a Big Change

Harvard made a big change recently with their investment management team and process. I've commented on this a lot already so check out the links below...   How a Trump Or Clinton Win Will Impact Your Investments Should Harvard's Endowment be Managed by a Robot? Should a Robot be Managing CalPERs Portfolio? What Does Nevadas $35 billion fund manager do all day...nothing  

Cash Cows of the Dow

Long time readers know that I have been a shareholder yield advocate on the blog for almost a decade.  (We used to call it net payout yield back then, and we define it as the combination of dividends and net buyacks.) People are slow to change of course, but my hopes are that eventually you all come around to a...

Episode #36: “Listener Q&A”

Episode #36: “Listener Q&A”   Guest: Episode #36 has no guest, but is co-hosted by Meb’s co-worker, Jeff Remsburg. Date Recorded: 1/10/16     |     Run-Time: 1:01:18 Summary:  We’re back with the first Q&A episode of 2017. We start by discussing the “Zero Budget Portfolio,” about which Meb wrote a recent blog post. The quick idea is that when...