On this week’s Animal Spirits with Michael & Ben we discuss: How to pay for college on the cheap Why is financial literacy in the U.S. so low? Is there ever going to be a solution for the retirement savings crisis? The Netflix model for financial advice Why the financial services industry is like the…
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Animal Spirits Episode 74: Footing the Bill
This week’s Animal Spirits with Michael & Ben is sponsored by YCharts: Mention Animal Spirits and receive 20% off your subscription price when you initially sign up for the service. We discuss: The dreaded yield curve inversion — useful signal or noise? Who’s smarter — the bond market or the Fed? Which generation is in more trouble financially…
Talk Your Book: Creating a Buffer
Today’s Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book is presented by Innovator ETFs: We discuss: Surviving the upside when trying to hedge the downside The ideal client for a hedging strategy Using options to provide a buffer on the downside and capping the upside Why the payouts of a structured product are typically more appealing than the…
Animal Spirits Episode 73: The Expectations Gap
This week’s Animal Spirits with Michael & Ben is sponsored by YCharts: Mention Animal Spirits and receive 20% off your subscription price when you initially sign up for the service. We discuss: What Congress doesn’t understand about financial services. The college admissions bribery scandal. Does it matter where you went to college? Can tech companies solve higher education?…
Talk Your Book: The Low Volatility Anomaly
Today’s Animal Spirits: Talk Your Book is presented by Invesco: We discuss: What is the low volatility anomaly? Why financial theory doesn’t always translate into the real world The three behavioral and structural reasons for the low vol anomaly How often do different factors overlap with one another? How the market environment impacts low vol…
Animal Spirits Episode 72: Where Were You At the Bottom?
This week’s Animal Spirits with Michael & Ben is sponsored by YCharts: Mention Animal Spirits and receive 20% off your subscription price when you initially sign up for the service. We discuss: Where we were in our careers when the market bottomed 10 years ago Star fund managers Is Bill Gross happy? Persistence in performance may be the…
Animal Spirits Episode 71: Supremely Efficient Markets
This week’s Animal Spirits with Michael & Ben is sponsored by YCharts: Mention Animal Spirits and receive 20% off your subscription price when you initially sign up for the service. We discuss: Massive V rallies in stocks Did the Fed turn millennials into socialists? Why real estate prices haven’t done as well as you think? Why have U.S….
Animal Spirits Episode 70: The Rich Man’s Disease
On this week’s Animal Spirits with Michael & Ben we discuss: The meaning of work Why working more is making Americans miserable Smartphone addiction Warren Buffett’s latest shareholder letter Does Buffett make it sound too easy? The greatest investor you’ve never heard of The insane rally in the stock market What matters more — performance…
Animal Spirits Episode 69: Denominator Blindness
This week’s Animal Spirits with Michael & Ben is sponsored by YCharts: Mention Animal Spirits and receive 20% off your subscription price when you initially sign up for the service. We discuss: Flipping your home using Zillow How accurate are Zillow’s house price estimates? Why auto loans are not the canary in the coal mine Why everyone wants…
Animal Spirits Episode 68: The Rich Man’s IRA
This week’s Animal Spirits with Michael & Ben is sponsored by YCharts: Mention Animal Spirits and receive 20% off your subscription price when you initially sign up for the service. We discuss: Why is money flowing out of SPY? How can index fund firms differentiate themselves? Should you decrease the number of stocks you own at the outset…
