The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

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Ready to grow your wealth through smarter investing decisions? With The Meb Faber Show, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investment fund manager, Meb Faber, brings you insights on today’s markets and the art of investing. Featuring some of the top investment professionals in the world as his guests, Meb will help you interpret global equity, bond, and commodity markets just like the pros. Whether it’s smart beta, trend following, value investing, or any other timely market topic, each week you’ll hear real market wisdom from the smartest minds in investing today. Better investing starts here. For more information on Meb, please visit MebFaber.com. For more on Cambria Investment Management, visit CambriaInvestments.com.

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Aug 3, 2016 · 47 min
Listener Q&A Episode | #10
Episode #10 is our second “Listener Q&A” episode. This time, instead of spending the entire episode answering one question, Meb tackles many. Here’s a sample of a few of the topics you’ll hear him address: - How should young investors...
Jul 28, 2016 · 1 hr 8 min
Pete Mladina - "What You Thought Was Skill Was Just Risk Premia" | #9
“Do I have enough to fund my retirement?” “What’s the optimal lifetime asset allocation?” Those two questions, stemming from a recent academic paper written by Pete, help launch Episode 9. The answers point toward Pete’s solution for...
Jul 21, 2016 · 32 min
Starved for Yield? Time to Go Global | #8
Episode #8 marks Meb’s first “listener feedback” episode. We’ve received numerous bond-related questions from listeners, but they all tend to reduce to something along the lines of: “Bonds are hovering around historically low yields. Where...
Jul 14, 2016 · 31 min
Playing Defense Against Black Swans | # 7
With Brexit rattling the markets recently, it’s a good time to revisit the discussion of “black swans” (not that Brexit was a black swan, despite catching many investors off-guard). So what exactly is an investing black swan? And is there...
Jul 7, 2016 · 28 min
Three Concepts That Investors Get Wrong | # 6
Do you know which three concepts most investors – retail and professional alike – get wrong? One is asset allocation; two is a bit different – it’s actually a lack of awareness of a type of investment that actually pays you to own it...
Jun 27, 2016 · 43 min
Jared Dillian - “If You Think 2016 is the Opposite of 1981, then You Should Do the Opposite” | #5
Meb starts by asking Jared to discuss a point from one of Jared’s newsletters: “If you think 2016 is the opposite of 1981, then you should do the opposite. In 1981, you should have bought stocks, sold gold, and bought bonds…” Jared gives us...
Jun 27, 2016 · 47 min
Wes Gray - “Even God Would Get Fired as an Active Investor” | #4
What if you had perfect foresight and knew ahead of time which stocks would be the best performers? The reality is even if you knew this and invested accordingly, you’d still suffer gut-wrenching drawdowns along the way so painful (around 75%) that...
Jun 27, 2016 · 1 hr
Where Are the Best Global Values Right Now? | #3
Is right now a good time to be in U.S. stocks? What about global stocks? Well, the answer in large part depends on the specific market’s valuation. Start investing in an overpriced market and your returns will likely be small. Start in a cheap...
Jun 27, 2016 · 1 hr 29 min
Patrick O’Shaughnessy - An Unexpected Drop-in from Patrick O’Shaughnessy | #2
Meb and Patrick cover lots of ground in this fun episode. They discuss stocks not to own right now, Meb’s worst market loss of all time, and Patrick’s career advice in response to listener Q&A. They then get a laugh reading aloud the worst...
Jun 27, 2016 · 41 min
Global Asset Allocation - Investing 101 | #1
On this first-ever podcast, Meb provides listeners with a bit about himself and answers the question “What in the world am I doing starting a podcast?” (After all, he is a self-professed former “glorified ski bum.”) He then discusses a broad...

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

Listener Q&A Episode | #10

Pete Mladina - "What You Thought Was Skill Was Just Risk Premia" | #9

Starved for Yield? Time to Go Global | #8

Playing Defense Against Black Swans | # 7

Three Concepts That Investors Get Wrong | # 6

Jared Dillian - “If You Think 2016 is the Opposite of 1981, then You Should Do the Opposite” | #5

Wes Gray - “Even God Would Get Fired as an Active Investor” | #4

Where Are the Best Global Values Right Now? | #3

Patrick O’Shaughnessy - An Unexpected Drop-in from Patrick O’Shaughnessy | #2

Global Asset Allocation - Investing 101 | #1