On an all new episode of What Are Your Thoughts: * The Dow Jones is off to its best start since 1999 * Are we witnessing an IPO Mania? * Should JPMorgan tweet? * Can you miss Game of Thrones and still be culturally relevant? * Who is more insufferable,…
Josh here - of all the videos we've done on this channel, this is the one I am most proud of. Dina Isola, a financial advisor at our firm Ritholtz Wealth Management, is an advocate for the protection of retail investors, no matter how much money they have or what…
Be sure to subscribe to our channel so you never miss an update: https://www.youtube.com/THECOMPOUNDRWM Sean Brown is the CEO of YCharts, one of the hottest investment research platforms on the web. Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson use YCharts for research projects all the time, whether they're answering a client question,…
Josh here - True story, Michael bought a house and had a gap between when his mortgage banker needed cash versus when his apartment in Brooklyn sold. This meant temporarily making sales in his investment account. This scenario is just one of a million things that happens to investors in…
On an all new What Are Your Thoughts? with Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown... * On a total return basis, the S&P 500 hits new highs * April, it's pretty awesome right? * What is the best storyline of the NBA Playoffs so far? * Chinese stocks are up…
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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: The average saver puts 6.8% of their annual income into their workplace retirement plan... Boomers are saving…
Josh here - Rick Ferri was one of the pioneers of the indexing and fiduciary movement on the web. Years before Vanguard and BlackRock began taking in trillions of dollars and launching ETFs, Rick was preaching the gospel of low costs, low fees and sound portfolio construction. All of us…
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 Enhancement Group. Andrew's work look at the structural behavior of prices and…
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. But it's a trick... People can pick different indexes, use price versus total return data, cherry pick from among their own statements and…
Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick play their favorite game, What Are Your Thoughts? Today's hot topics: * Stocks have broken through resistance, what now? * Did you get Avengers: Endgame tickets yet? * Schwab's new subscription plan * Every asset class is up in thru Q1 * Can we…
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 unprofitable investments and almost 30% lost more than half…
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…
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…
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…
NO SPOILERS! Thanks to Brian and David and the whole cast and crew for having me on board as the technical advisor for Billions Season 4! I had so much fun working on all the scripts and dialog this year. You’re in for a wild ride! Season premiere is Sunday…
Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick play their favorite game, What Are Your Thoughts? Today's hot topics: * The negative-fee ETF has finally arrived! * Slack, Uber, Lyft, Pinterest IPOs * Fund managers change their behavior after winning / losing streaks * They traded Odell Beckham! * Who should be…
Bill Sweet, the CFO and resident tax expert at Ritholtz Wealth Management, lays out the four things that everyone needs to know and do before they start their own company. Becoming an entrepreneur and launching a new product or service into the marketplace is one of the most exciting things…
"The idea that more data is good for investors is ridiculous." Michael and Josh tackle the obsession with data, factoids and random statistics that seems to dominate the modern era of investment content. The illusion that being armed with this information can help you determine what is about to happen…
Famed Wall Street strategist Tony Dwyer dropped by The Compound to talk about some really easy to understand and follow advice for young people beginning their investing careers. He talks with Downtown Josh Brown about what he sees as the single most important determinant of success as well as the…
Live from the Compound! Nick Maggiulli (Of Dollars and Data) joins Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick to relay some interesting information about how often investing a lump sum beats out using a dollar cost averaging approach. You can watch Nick's take on dollar cost averaging here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dswzb-8nHk&t=1s Read Nick's…
Josh here - my guest on this episode of Talk Your Book is storied Wall Street strategist Tony Dwyer, who shares with us the three most important things to watch in the economy. Tony's made a career of helping people understand the markets, the economic picture and how the two…
Michael Batnick and Downtown Josh Brown are Live From The Compound to talk about a really simple way to figure out the optimal mix between stocks and bonds for individual investors - this is something everyone can do for themselves as a device to determine how much risk you can…
Michael Batnick and Josh Brown play What Are Your Thoughts? and cover some of the most discussed topics going on right now - * The S&P 500 facing own its old all-time high of 2800 * Why does the real estate seller pay the brokerage fee? * Did NBA trade…