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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!

Animal Spirits: Gen Z is on Fire

On today’s show, we discuss:
– The types of people you see on every flight in America
– Why new highs in the stock market are perfectly normal
– Why the Fed should cut rates even in a strong economy
– This is more like the 1990s than the 1970s
– Young people are wealthier than you think
– The biggest story about the economy no one is talking about, and much more!

Talk Your Book: What’s Going on in the Bond Market?

On today’s show, we are joined again by Alex Morris, CIO of F/m Investments to discuss:
– 2024 rate cut possibilities
– The difficulty of forecasting, and why everyone got 2023 so wrong
– Utilizing spreads as a forecasting tool
– Why solving for corporate duration can be a useful risk management tool, and much more!

Animal Spirits: New All-Time Highs

On today’s show, we discuss:
– The average length of bull and bear markets
– What’s up with Small Cap stocks
– $8.8T in cash
– No show China
– The vibesession is over
– The softening labor market
– Airline credit cards
– 0% rate loans
– The Bitcoin ETF, and much more!