The Compound and Friends

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“The moral of this story is obvious. We all do better when we have something to aim at. That’s why proper benchmarking is so important. In the investment world, it means a standard or measure that can be used to analyze the allocation, risk, and return of a given portfolio.” Robert Seawright (@rpseawright) who blogs at Above the Market is a long-established figure in the investment blogosphere. Ta...

Who is the most disruptive person in wealth management? It's not a robo founder. Or an index ETF CEO. Or a blogger. In fact, it is Shirl Penney, the founder of Dynasty Financial Partners, whose platform for breakaway brokers who want to become independent advisors and own their own firms has now amassed almost $40 billion in client assets over the last ten years. Shirl has changed the way wirehous...

Josh Brown and Michael Batnick discuss the recent post "I did everything I was supposed to do", which is the story of a man whose spent his whole career working for asset management firms and now finds himself on the wrong side of the active vs passive debate. There are real world consequences of the massive outflows of cash coming from actively managed mutual funds. This was Josh's attempt to loo...

This is not a business of numbers. It uses finance, but it is not even a business about finance. This business is a business of communication. Of relationships. Of empathy. Josh discusses the topic at an all-hands Monday meeting at Ritholtz Wealth Management. 1-click play or subscribe on your favorite podcast app   Subscribe to the mini podcast on iTunes or Spotify   Enable our Alexa skill here -...

Josh's new post is about a world in which the cost of money remains cheap to free, and all of the potential disruption that would entail. Josh looks at this issue through the prism of a decade's worth of massive outperformance for growth stocks vs value stocks. Ben Carlson (A Wealth Of Common Sense) brings up some interesting points about what this would mean for savers and investors and portfolio...

“This is going to be life and death for many advisors. Legacy firms with massive overhead and fixed high fee AUM structures will struggle to compete with the coming change in fee structures. Firms that are able to move to a leaner and more tech based platform will outperform as they make up for lost revenue with fatter margins.” Cullen Roche who blogs at Pragmatic Capitalism has been a mainstay of...

Josh here - my friend Perth Tolle has been hustling and grinding harder than almost anyone I know on The Street these past few years - first, with the launch of her proprietary Life + Liberty Indexes and now with the first ETF based on her ideas.  Perth believes, as I do, that countries with a strong rule of law and respect for both civil and human rights will make for better long term investments...

Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/thecompoundrwm?sub_confirmation=1 Josh here - I absolutely love this discussion between my partner Barry Ritholtz and the one and only Professor Scott Galloway about being happy and learning to live with yourself, in good times and bad. Scott's new book, The Algebra of Happiness, is both highly personal and instantly relatable to everyone.  Scott has become one o...

“How balanced is your life portfolio? If one area of your life were to not work out, how vulnerable would you be? When is the last time you rebalanced your life's portfolio? When have you last expanded your life portfolio?” Dr. Brett Steenbarger is a trained psychologist, trading coach, author and blogger at TraderFeed. Tadas got Dr. Brett on the phone to talk about a recent post of his entitled “...

Blair duQuesnay catches up with Brian Portnoy to discuss some of the biggest challenges in defining wealth, finding happiness in our success and being aware of the fact that we seem to always want more. Talk to Blair here: https://ritholtzwealth.com/team/blair-duquesnay/ Brian Portnoy, Ph. D., CFA, is an expert at simplifying the complex world of money. In his two books, The Investor's Paradox and...

Barry Ritholtz and Downtown Josh Brown welcome storied Wall Street veteran Jeff Saut, formerly of Raymond James, to The Compound. Jeff talks about how he uses both fundamentals and technical analysis in his investment selection process, and why he doesn't pay as much attention to the economy as he does to earnings and investment ideas from trusted sources. Jeff spent the last 21 years as a chief s...

“Prior to reading Expected Returns, I had a very narrow view of asset allocation and portfolio construction. Like most investors, I viewed diversification through the singular lens of asset classes, i.e. stocks vs. bonds. Through the effective use of two visual aids, this book turned that notion on its head.” Phil Huber is an enthusiastic participant in the financial blogsphere and the CIO of Hube...

Josh is joined by Jeff Macke to discuss the latest quarterly earnings reports from Target, Walmart, Nordstrom and more! Enable our Alexa skill here - "Alexa, play the Compound show!" https://www.amazon.com/Ritholtz-Wealth-Management-LLC-Compound/dp/B07P777QBZ Talk to us about your portfolio or financial plan here: http://ritholtzwealth.com/ Obviously nothing on this channel should be considered as...

There are only two commodities left worth anything in the money management business. In an all hands meeting at Ritholtz Wealth, CEO Josh Brown explains... Enable our Alexa skill here - "Alexa, play the Compound show!" https://www.amazon.com/Ritholtz-Wealth-Management-LLC-Compound/dp/B07P777QBZ Talk to us about your portfolio or financial plan here: http://ritholtzwealth.com/ Obviously nothing on...

Josh Brown talks with Greg March, founder of Noble People, a media agency based in New York City, about whether or not Amazon's advertising business can supplant Google's search hegemony any time soon. Enable our Alexa skill here - "Alexa, play the Compound show!" https://www.amazon.com/Ritholtz-Wealth-Management-LLC-Compound/dp/B07P777QBZ Talk to us about your portfolio or financial plan here: ht...

Josh here - I asked my friend Tyrone Ross of Noble Bridge Wealth Management about the recent rally in Bitcoin, which has doubled since the beginning of the year and shocked the markets. What's behind the recent move? Who's doing all the buying? What major catalysts on the horizon? Enable our Alexa skill here - "Alexa, play the Compound show!" https://www.amazon.com/Ritholtz-Wealth-Management-LLC-C...

osh here - on the 20th anniversary of Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth, I discuss why it's the book that changed the entire trajectory of my career and laid the groundwork for my investing philosophy. Many books and authors have been influential and important to my understanding about how the market works. Simple Wealth, however, was the first book that made me want to dedicate my life to helping...

“Rebalancing is getting a little overrated. It is nowhere near as impactful on returns as human and digital advisors advertise. I also feel like human advisors probably rebalance more than is truly necessary.” Peter Lazaroff who is the co-CIO of Plancorp and BrightPlan. Peter blogs at PeterLazaroff.com and most importantly for the purposes of this discussion is the author of the recently published...

Are US stocks destined to continue crushing international stocks? How about tech stocks vs everything else? Sure seems that way. But the recency bias is real! Michael Batnick, Ben Carlson and Downtown Josh Brown discuss! Enable our Alexa skill here - "Alexa, play the Compound show!" https://www.amazon.com/Ritholtz-Wealth-Management-LLC-Compound/dp/B07P777QBZ Talk to us about your portfolio or fina...

“Many of us look back nostalgically on our childhood memories when life was simpler and allow the feeling of familiarity to warm our souls. That’s ok. But, save your memory of investment traditions for small loses where lessons were learned, stay educated about the changing landscape, and participate in the positive evolution of the industry.” Justin Mallory has a deep interest and background in f...

Josh here - my friend Jeff Macke is an investor and an expert in the retailing giants Amazon, Target, Walmart and Sears. Jeff's dad ran Target for Dayton-Hudson in the 1970's and he knows more on this topic than anyone I can think of. Today in 1962, Target was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jeff and I look back at what made the 2,000-store chain great and what the future brings as the retail gian...

Barry Ritholtz wonders why everyone is still so surprised every time the stock market has a correction. The psychology surrounding stock-market declines and recoveries is fascinating. Anytime markets retreat even a little bit, the noise surrounding the event begins to swell. Given how frequently markets jink and turn, you might expect people would be used to the occasional plunge by now. Full tran...

“But I want to dispel an implicit myth about behavioral coaching: it is not predicated upon its recipient being crazy, stupid, or reckless. Nor is it predicated upon its purveyor being a genius, stoic, or super-human. It is predicated upon both parties being human.” Brendan Mullooly, who blogs at Your Brain on Stocks, is an investment advisor based in New Jersey for Mullooly Asset Management. Tada...

Sean Brown is the CEO of YCharts, one of the hottest investment research platforms on the web. Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson use YCharts for research projects all the time, whether they're answering a client question, creating a blog post or seeking to prove or disprove an idea about markets, the economy, investing or portfolio construction. Sean came by to discuss the various ways investors and...