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“Personal finance can’t be taught in one day or period. It’s a lifetime journey. A full week, though not long enough, gives kids a fighting chance and sparks their interest for further independent study.” Tony Isola an investment advisor representative at Ritholtz Wealth Management, who blogs at A Teachable Moment recently about his experience teaching a personal finance mini-course to high school...

“But the truth is, singles should be planning “for one,” because they need to plan, period. When people don’t take ownership of needing to reach financial independence on their own, they are more likely to put off their goals entirely. ” Douglas Boneparth is the President of Bone Fide Wealth in New York City. Tadas Viskanta got Douglas on the phone to talk about a recent post of his entitled “Plan...

Two dueling versions of the looming retirement crisis that affects millennials, Gen Xers and Boomers in various ways. Mary Childs wrote that the shortfall is actually worse than we all think. For example: The average saver puts 6.8% of their annual income into their workplace retirement plan... Boomers are saving 8.5% of their annual income, while Gen X workers save 7.4%. Millennials are saving ju...

Josh shouts out some of the elite-level activities taking place with Ritholtz Wealth, including some praise for trading, admin and the young financial advisors who are making their mark on the firm and its clientele. 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 financia...

"Retirement should be one of the most fun times of your life. But, generally, that’s only possible if you’re comfortable spending your life savings." Ashby Daniels, a retirement planner at Shorebridge Wealth Management, who blogs at Retirement Field Guide did a post about why it can be really difficult for retirees to change gears from saving for retirement to spending in retirement. Tadas Viskant...

Ritholtz Wealth Management's Blair duQuesnay caught up with Brinker Capital's Daniel Crosby to talk about how central behavioral investing has become to the financial advice proposition. It sits at the center of the value-add that advisors are bringing to the table in the modern era. Will every financial firm someday have a CBO - Chief Behavioral Officer? Read Blair each week at her blog, The Bell...

Today at the Compound - an all new episode of Talk Your Book with Downtown Josh Brown and Barry Ritholtz talking to Andrew Thrasher, a technical analyst and portfolio manager at a large Midwestern RIA called the Financial Enhancement Group.  Andrew's work look at the structural behavior of prices and volatility in the stock and bond market. In this discussion, Josh and Barry quiz him on the way hi...

Rick Ferri is one of the most important figures in the indexing movement, having began blogging extensively on the topic of low cost investment and financial advice before the post-crisis revolution drove trillions of dollars into Vanguard and BlackRock. Rick is back with a new business model and a forthcoming book, The Education of an Index Investor. Barry Ritholtz and Rick discuss what he's up t...

Josh Brown reminds the staff at Ritholtz Wealth Management to look up at the scoreboard in the sky every once in awhile, and to ask ourselves "How could life be better?" 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/ Obvious...

"As market participants we all want more data, but once you understand where some of the data comes from you have to take it with a big grain of salt." Stock market data today is abundant and mostly free. However data purporting to go back decade, if not centuries, has a lot of issues with. Ben Carlson, institutional asset management chief at Ritholtz Wealth Management does as much research as any...

This week, one of the most well known permabears came out and took a victory lap despite the fact his commentary has been negative about stocks forever.  But it's a trick...  People can pick different indexes, use price versus total return data, cherry pick from among their own statements and do all sorts of other jiujitsu to hide their bad calls. Investors would do better to ignore all of it, but...

In a recent study, Vanguard took a look at the last 30 years worth of data for the Russell 3000 index, which represents the total stock market. They found something remarkable - over the last 30 years, 47% of stocks were unprofitable investments and almost 30% lost more than half their value. They also found, and this is the big one, that 7% of stocks had cumulative returns over 1,000%. But imagin...

"Home ownership is often called both the American Dream and the biggest investment of your life. It’s debatable whether a house is truly an investment or not, especially when we’re talking about your primary residence." Ben Carlson, institutional asset management chief at Ritholtz Wealth Management did a post about why comparing the price appreciation in housing with the stock market is not a grea...

Josh's guest today is portfolio manager Drew Dickson, who manages a concentrated portfolio of favorite stocks for Albert Bridge Capital. In a recent blog post, Drew explains the four "tools" he uses to overcome the biases that can cloud an investor's judgement and threaten a portfolio manager's ability to look at holdings objectively. Josh talks to Drew briefly about these ideas in today's The Com...

Enable the skill on Amazon - "Alexa, play The Compound Show" Josh here - I had so much fun hanging out with my friend Allison Schrager this week on the eve of her gigantic book launch for An Economist Walks Into a Brothel. Allison spent time with big wave surfers, Nevada prostitutes, Hollywood film producers, paparazzi cameramen, horse breeders, magicians and other real world practitioners to disc...

Bloomberg reporter Tara LaChapelle asks whether or not Warren Buffett will complete one last "elephant-sized" deal before calling it a career. He's 88 years old, so the clock is ticking. Join Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown as they discuss the possibilities and a recent history of Buffett's acquisitions. Please jump in with your comments too, we'd love to hear what you think! You can read...

Josh makes a big announcement to the staff of Ritholtz Wealth Management. https://ritholtzwealth.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There you are, sitting on a massive gain in a big winning stock. And now it's become a large portion of your portfolio and your net worth increasingly depends upon that stock staying up. Now what? Diversification will rarely look as attractive in hindsight versus the huge gains that are possible from a big winning stock. And regret minimization is one of the most important strategies in finance gi...

Tadas Viskanta and Josh Brown discuss the future of communications within the investment business, and how the home speaker phenomenon is sure to change the game as it proliferates. If investors are using the voice-enabled internet more and more, it stands to reason that their financial advisors and asset managers will want a way to communicate with them there. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

Ben Carlson and Josh Brown discuss the earnings recession. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices