Episodes

April 22, 2019

Teaching Financial Literacy to High Schoolers (Tadas with Tony Isola)

<p>“Personal finance can’t be taught in one day or period. It’s a lifetime journey. A full week, though not long enough, gives kids a fighting chance and sparks their interest for further independent study.”</p><br /><p>Tony…
April 19, 2019

Planning to Be Single (Tadas with Douglas Boneparth)

<p>“But the truth is, singles should be planning “for one,” because they need to plan, period. When people don’t take ownership of needing to reach financial independence on their own, they are more likely to put off their g…
April 18, 2019

The Retirement Crisis: Real or Phony? (with Michael and Josh)

<p>Two dueling versions of the looming retirement crisis that affects millennials, Gen Xers and Boomers in various ways. Mary Childs wrote that the shortfall is actually worse than we all think. For example:</p><br /><p>The …
April 16, 2019

What does it mean to be elite? (with Josh)

<p>Josh shouts out some of the elite-level activities taking place with Ritholtz Wealth, including some praise for trading, admin and the young financial advisors who are making their mark on the firm and its clientele.</p><…
April 15, 2019

Overcoming a Reluctance to Spend in Retirement (with Tadas and Ashby Daniels)

<p>"Retirement should be one of the most fun times of your life. But, generally, that’s only possible if you’re comfortable spending your life savings."</p><br /><p>Ashby Daniels, a retirement planner at <a href="http://www.…
April 12, 2019

Every Financial Advice Firm Will Have a Chief Behavioral Officer (with Blair and Daniel Crosby)

<p>Ritholtz Wealth Management's Blair duQuesnay caught up with Brinker Capital's Daniel Crosby to talk about how central behavioral investing has become to the financial advice proposition. It sits at the center of the value…
April 11, 2019

Financial Advice Using Technical Analysis

<p>Today at the Compound - an all new episode of Talk Your Book with Downtown Josh Brown and Barry Ritholtz talking to Andrew Thrasher, a technical analyst and portfolio manager at a large Midwestern RIA called the Financial…
April 10, 2019

The Return of Rick Ferri (with Barry Ritholtz)

<p>Rick Ferri is one of the most important figures in the indexing movement, having began blogging extensively on the topic of low cost investment and financial advice before the post-crisis revolution drove trillions of dol…
April 9, 2019

Emergency Broadcast: Chicken & Waffles (aka How Could Life Be Better?)

<p>Josh Brown reminds the staff at Ritholtz Wealth Management to look up at the scoreboard in the sky every once in awhile, and to ask ourselves "How could life be better?" </p><br /><p>Enable our Alexa skill here - "Alexa, …
April 8, 2019

The thing about historical data (with Tadas and Ben Carlson)

<p>"As market participants we all want more data, but once you understand where some of the data comes from you have to take it with a big grain of salt."</p><br /><p>Stock market data today is abundant and mostly free. Howe…
April 6, 2019

Permabears are Ridiculous People (with Josh and Michael)

<p>This week, one of the most well known permabears came out and took a victory lap despite the fact his commentary has been negative about stocks forever.&nbsp;</p><br /><p>But it's a trick...&nbsp;</p><br /><p>People can p…
April 5, 2019

Best Ideas portfolio (with Josh and Michael)

<p>In a recent study, Vanguard took a look at the last 30 years worth of data for the Russell 3000 index, which represents the total stock market. They found something remarkable - over the last 30 years, 47% of stocks were …
April 3, 2019

Your House versus the Stock Market with Josh and Ben Carlson

<p>"Home ownership is often called both the American Dream and the biggest investment of your life. It’s debatable whether a house is truly an investment or not, especially when we’re talking about your primary residence."</…
April 1, 2019

Overcoming Biases with Josh and Drew Dickson

<p>Josh's guest today is portfolio manager Drew Dickson, who manages a concentrated portfolio of favorite stocks for Albert Bridge Capital. In a recent blog post, Drew explains the four "tools" he uses to overcome the biases…
March 29, 2019

An Economist Walks Into a Brothel (with Josh and Allison Schrager)

<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ritholtz-Wealth-Management-LLC-Compound/dp/B07P777QBZ" target="_blank">Enable the skill on Amazon</a> - "Alexa, play The Compound Show" </p><br /><p>Josh here - I had so much fun hanging ou…
March 27, 2019

What will Warren Buffett do next (with Michael and Josh)

<p>Bloomberg reporter Tara LaChapelle asks whether or not Warren Buffett will complete one last "elephant-sized" deal before calling it a career. He's 88 years old, so the clock is ticking. </p><br /><p>Join Michael Batnick …
March 25, 2019

Emergency Broadcast - Josh's announcement

<p>Josh makes a big announcement to the staff of Ritholtz Wealth Management.</p><br /><p><a href="https://ritholtzwealth.com/" target="_blank">https://ritholtzwealth.com/</a></p><br /><hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: …
March 17, 2019

Selling Big Winners (with Josh, Michael and Blair)

<p>There you are, sitting on a massive gain in a big winning stock. And now it's become a large portion of your portfolio and your net worth increasingly depends upon that stock staying up. Now what?</p><br /><p>Diversificat…
Feb. 19, 2019

Tadas Viskanta and Josh Brown on Voice and Mini-pods

Tadas Viskanta and Josh Brown discuss the future of communications within the investment business, and how the home speaker phenomenon is sure to change the game as it proliferates. If investors are using the voice-enabled i…
Feb. 19, 2019

Ben Carlson on the Dreaded Earnings Recession

Ben Carlson and Josh Brown discuss the earnings recession.<br /><hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target…