Episodes

"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." Ben Carlson, institutional asset management chief at Ritholtz Wealth Management did a post about why comparing the price appreciation in housing with the stock market is not a great idea. Downtown Josh Brown gets him on the phone to explain exactly why investors and home owners ...

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 that can cloud an investor's judgement and threaten a portfolio manager's ability to look at holdings objectively. Josh talks to Drew briefly about these ideas in today's The Compound mini podcast. You can read Drew's post here: https://www.albertbridgecapital.com/drew-views...

Enable the skill on Amazon - "Alexa, play The Compound Show" Josh here - I had so much fun hanging out with my friend Allison Schrager this week on the eve of her gigantic book launch for An Economist Walks Into a Brothel. Allison spent time with big wave surfers, Nevada prostitutes, Hollywood film producers, paparazzi cameramen, horse breeders, magicians and other real world practitioners to discover the way they handle risk. It's one of the most fascinating books I've ever read and Allison h...

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. Join Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown as they discuss the possibilities and a recent history of Buffett's acquisitions. Please jump in with your comments too, we'd love to hear what you think! You can read the full article here: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-25/warren-buffett-s-nex...

Josh makes a big announcement to the staff of Ritholtz Wealth Management. https://ritholtzwealth.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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? Diversification will rarely look as attractive in hindsight versus the huge gains that are possible from a big winning stock. And regret minimization is one of the most important strategies in finance given how our behavior affects our long term returns. In this episode of Live from the Compound, Cer...

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 internet more and more, it stands to reason that their financial advisors and asset managers will want a way to communicate with them there.<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="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>