Meb Faber Research – Stock Market and Investing Blog

 Guest: Cliff Asness is a Founder, Managing Principal and Chief Investment Officer at AQR Capital Management.  Recorded: 3/20/2024 | Run-Time: 01:05:24  Summary: In today’s episode, Cliff & I start by talking about some quotes he may or may not have said in the past. Then we kick around a bunch of topics. We talk about diversifying by both asset class...

Guest: Steve Edmundson is the Chief Investment Officer at the Public Employees' Retirement System of Nevada (NVPERS), overseeing over $60 billion in assets. Recorded: 3/18/2024  |  Run-Time: 48:01 Summary: As pension funds continue to hire more employees, pay more and more fees and build more complex portfolios, Steve is an outlier for his approach that emphasizes simplicity over complexity. He’s one...

 Guest: Grant Williams is the author of the newsletter Things That Make you Go Hmmm… and host of The Grant Williams Podcast. He was also a co-founder of Real Vision.  Peter Atwater teaches confidence-driven decision-making at William and Mary and the University of Delaware, writes the Financial Insyghts newsletter, and is the author of the book, The Confidence Map: Charting...

Guest: Tim Ranzetta is the Founder of Next Gen Personal Finance, a non-profit organization to connect educators with free resources and equip students with the knowledge and skills to lead financially successful and fulfilling lives since 2014. Recorded: 1/17/2024  |  Run-Time: 48:27  Summary:  In today’s episode, Tim updates us on everything going on with Next Gen Personal Finance. You all...

 Guest: Whitney Baker is the founder of Totem Macro, leveraging extensive prior buyside experience to create unique research insights for an exclusive client-base of some of the world’s preeminent investors. Previously, Whitney worked for Bridgewater Associates as Head of Emerging Markets and for Soros Fund Management, co-managing an internal allocation with a dual Global Macro (cross-asset) and Global Long/Short...

Guests: Wes Gray is the founder, CEO and Co-CIO of Alpha Architect. Robert Elwood is the co-founder of Practus, LLP, a business law firm that focuses primarily on investment funds. Recorded: 1/18/2024  |  Run-Time: 47:02  Summary: Wes and Bob just helped complete a separately managed account to ETF conversion of $770 million, so we had to get them on the...

Guest: Tina Vandersteel is the head of GMO’s Emerging Country Debt team. Prior to joining GMO in 2004, she worked at J.P. Morgan in fixed income research developing quantitative arbitrage strategies for emerging debt and high yield bonds. Recorded: 1/31/2024  |  Run-Time: 52:23  Summary:  In today’s episode, we dive into Tina’s teams’ recent piece about what they call a possible...

Guest: Drew Dickson is the founder of Albert Bridge Capital and CIO of Alpha Europe funds. Recorded: 1/24/2024  |  Run-Time: 1:03:53 Summary:  We talk a lot about global investing on this show and wanted to talk about that with Drew given his focus on European markets. Between the end of 1979 and the end of 2009, both the U.S. and Europe...

Guest: Ben Mackovak is the Co-Founder of Strategic Value Bank Partners, an investment partnership specializing in community banks. Ben also sits on the board for several banks. Recorded: 1/10/2024  |  Run-Time: 1:03:42  Summary:  It's been a wild ride lately for the banks. 2023 was the biggest year ever for bank failures. There are concerns about commercial real estate risk in the...

Guest: Jared Dillian is the editor of The Daily Dirtnap, a daily market newsletter for investment professionals. Recorded: 1/17/2024  |  Run-Time: 49:41  Summary:  Jared’s back on the podcast to talk about his book titled, No Worries: How to live a stress-free financial life, which just released yesterday. Jared talks about the 80/20 rule applied to personal finance, his “no worries” approach...