On this week’s Animal Spirits with Michael & Ben we discuss: Are household allocations to stocks too high? Is Robinhood positioning to be the bank of the future for Millennials? Collective investment trusts are way bigger than we thought. How to plan your personal finances with inconsistent income. The kind of money that can increase…

Earlier this week I wrote about how holding can be one of the hardest aspects of investing. Anyone can buy or sell but holding takes discipline. I promised a follow-up to discuss how I handle this. To offer a potential solution I’m going to walk you through my evolution on how I’ve come to think about…

One of the great things about the Internet is that it’s broken down many of the barriers to information that existed in the past. Investors can now become more informed than ever before if they know where to look and who to trust. You no longer have to go through the gatekeepers to access relevant…

I saw the following headline on CNBC last week: This was the first response that popped into my head, as shared on Twitter: This is fairly simple, and some would say obvious, advice on the markets but sometimes investors need to be reminded of the simple and obvious The obvious stuff is often the first…

A few weeks ago Steve Chen asked me on his podcast for my thoughts on zero coupon bonds and how they potentially fit into a portfolio. There are no right answers in terms of what fits into a portfolio because portfolio construction can take many shapes and forms. So when working through something like this…

In his latest memo, Oaktree Capital’s Howard Marks opined about ETFs and their liquidity profile: If you withdraw from a mutual fund, you’ll get the price at which the underlying stocks or bonds closed that day, the net asset value or NAV. But the price you get when you sell an ETF — like any security on…

On this week’s Animal Spirits with Michael & Ben we discuss: Some proposals from Barron’s on changes Warren Buffett should make at BRK. The latest letter from Howard Marks. Why the ‘mother of all credit bubbles’ isn’t as bad as you might think. Why it makes no sense to compare government debt to household debt….

A reader asks: An acquaintance of mine has just sold his company for a huge sum, in the hundreds of millions, in cash. He tells me he is setting up a whole management office, with all kinds of investment professionals, for the task of investing, tracking and managing that portfolio. I have been wondering –…

Bear markets are always painful. Even if they bring us all cheaper stock prices, it’s never fun to see your savings drop in value. The enormous crash we saw during the Great Financial Crisis could possibly be the worst one we see in a generation. But how that bear market felt to you personally has…

Norm Macdonald gave one of my all-time favorite stand-up bits a few years ago during the David Letterman farewell tour. Norm lays out the idea that he’s not really scared of Iran or North Korea when it comes to geopolitics. The only country that worries him is Germany: I don’t know if you guys are history…