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Animal Spirits: Things Are Getting Stupid Again

On today’s show, we talk about:
– Why the markets continue moving higher
– Why buy and hold is the best (and worst) strategy
– How 401ks impact the stock market
– Billionaires can’t complain about inflation
– Consumers keep consuming
– Th richest generation in history
– Crypto just won’t die
– Why we keep seeing so many booms & busts
– The best new shows of 2024, and much more.

Talk Your Book: Private Investing for Fiduciaries

On today’s show, we are joined by Jacob Miller, Co-Founder of Opto Investments to discuss:
– How difficult it is for RIAs to get private market exposure
– The growth of private credit, and why that may be an issue
– Opto’s screening process for private investments, and much more!

Animal Spirits: Now Show Japan

On today’s show, we discuss:
– Where to stay in the Florida Keys
– The Eli Manning podcast
– The market needs a healthy correction
– Japanese equities making a come back
– Good news for homebuyers
– The new Costner trailer, and much more!

Talk Your Book: Investing for Income

On today’s show, we are joined by Josh Greco, Senior VP and Senior Institutional Portfolio Manager for Franklin Income Investors to discuss:
– Asset allocation decisions within multi-asset funds
– How rate changes affect portfolio yield
– Investors overallocation to cash
– Understanding convertible bonds, and much more!

Animal Spirits: The Fed Should Cut Already

On today’s show, we discuss:
– The people you see on every vacation
– The cure for the loneliness epidemic
– The biggest driver of stock market returns
– The John Bogle expected returns formula
– The best returning stock might surprise you
– Bitcoin ETF flows
– Why there won’t be a baby boomer retirement crisis, and much more.

Talk Your Book: Putting a Floor on the Nasdaq 100

On today’s show, we are joined by Bruce Bond, Co-Founder and CEO of Innovator Capital Management to discuss:
– Behavioral finance, and the popularity of defined outcome products during bull markets
– How equity floor ETFs work
– Innovators latest defined income ETF solutions, and much more!

Animal Spirits: Passive is Eating the Market

On today’s show, we discuss:
– Why McDonalds is getting more expensive
– The prospects for another bear market this year
– Fundamentals that drive stock returns
– Concentration in the S&P 500
– Nvidia vs. China
– Tail risk strategies
– Consumer credit
– Commercial real estate
– Youth sports, and more!

Talk Your Book: Talking Bonds at the New York Stock Exchange

On today’s show, we are joined by Kay Herr and Rick Figuly of JP Morgan’s Global Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities Group to discuss:
– JP Morgan’s newest bond ETF offering
– Why JP Morgan chose the NYSE over other exchanges
– What a securitized bond is, and how they work
– Thoughts on interest rates, and much more!

Animal Spirits: The Holy Grail of Investing

On today’s show, we discuss:
– Concentration risk in the US stock market
– Economic dominance from the United States
– When the Fed will cut rates
– Competing takes on the Apple Vision Pro
– Macro is hard
– Wage growth won’t quit
– Why there are so many realtors
– Another investing book from Tony Robbins, and much more!

Talk Your Book: Investing in Infrastructure

On today’s show, we are joined again by Bob Long, CEO of StepStone to discuss:
– What investments StepStone is making within Infrastructure
– How liquidity works with infrastructure investments
– The inner workings of interval funds, StepStones fees, and much more!