Talk Your Book: Customizing Your Assets

On today’s show, we had Matt Radgowski, CEO of Halo Investing to discuss:
– Customizing your own assets
– Utilizing notes as a hedge
– Latest innovations in defined outcome products, and much more!

Animal Spirits: How Much is Happiness Worth?

On today’s show, we discuss:
– Ben’s trip to NYC
– Stock market vs. bond market valuations
– The 4% inflation scenario
– Why the consumer is so important
– Record home values (again)
– The power of home equity, and much more!

Talk Your Book: Large Cap Alpha

We are joined by Francisco Bido, Senior Portfolio Manager for the Integrated Alpha group of F/m Investments to discuss:
– Screening out companies
– Growth vs value investing
– Investing in Apple
– Avoiding Tesla, and much more!

Do Valuations Even Matter For the Stock Market?

Robert Shiller has a free online database of historical stock market data I’ve been using for years. Going back to 1871, Shiller has data on historical interest rates, dividends, earnings, inflation and valuations. His preferred valuation measure is the cyclically-adjusted price to earnings (CAPE) ratio The average CAPE ratio going back to 1871 is 17.4x…