SA For FAs

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SA For FAs delivers information and analysis that will help Financial Advisors throughout their day. The podcast, hosted by Seeking Alpha editor Gil Weinreich, addresses issues of current interest to Financial Advisors and active investors, including macro analysis of current issues affecting markets; retirement planning; and asset allocation strategy.

11/06/2021

Best Practices: Handling Speculation Demand Among Younger Clients

Guest podcaster Jason Kirsch, CFP(R) discusses increasing demand for speculation among his younger clients. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12 min
01/06/2021

The Asset Allocator: DIY Disasters Are Avoidable

The huge and rapid across-the-board gains of the current market make now the most relevant time to remind investors of the protective value of asset allocation. This podcast (5:46) argues that we should reduce risk and aspire to steady returns. While we cannot predict the future — indeed, because we cannot predict the future — we should plan our finances in such a way as to avoid calamitous outcomes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5 min
25/05/2021

The Asset Allocator: Ron Surz On Protecting Boomers’ Portfolios From Today’s High Risk

Ron Surz’s new book “Baby Boomer Investing in the Perilous Decade of the 2020s” offers guidance on protecting lifetime savings that now reside in the crossfires of financial disaster. He is making the book available for free this week, through May 28, on Amazon. In this podcast (21:34), Surz explains why he believes the 2020s are a time of heightened risk, how boomers, who are most exposed, can protect themselves from this risk, and how even those who have saved insufficiently can live a dignified retirement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

21 min
18/05/2021

The Asset Allocator: Intel’s Cure Precedes Its Illness

Intel’s detractors criticize the company for falling behind competitors in data-center sales, for reducing buybacks and for declining profit margins. But it is when a company is down that its stock price provides an attractive entry point. This podcast (8:05) argues that Intel’s problems are fixable and that its new leadership appears to be busy fixing them now. And in the meantime, its stock sells at a modest price-to-earnings ratio of 12, a fraction of the industry average. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8 min
11/05/2021

The Asset Allocator: Economic Optimist Larry Siegel Doubts The Doomsayers

Veteran investment research Laurence (Larry) Siegel’s response to all the doomsday stories in the daily news is his book “Fewer, Richer, Greener,” which offers a long view of the progress and economic growth our world has known, despite the proverbial bumps on the road. This podcast (20:40) challenges Siegel with a bit of the gloom and doom that we’re seeing. The financial analyst concedes that a sober view of markets is justified, but defends the view that the broader economy is progressing. In this interview and in his book, Siegel prefers to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

20 min
04/05/2021

The Asset Allocator: Investment Decision-Making In An ‘Everything Rally’

The Fed’s interventionist policies are the primary source of our current “everything rally,” and it is this same factor that will eventually upend it. This podcast (7:50) argues that discounted cash flows and other tools of fundamental analysis are compromised when the so-called risk-free rate of money has been openly distorted for so long, and why other factors are worthy of consideration. It also suggests that investors always be prepared for risk-off scenarios. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7 min
27/04/2021

The Asset Allocator: Baker Hughes Capturing The Carbon-Capture Opportunity

At a time when oil majors are facing increasing pressure to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, a key question for investors concerns not which future technologies will prevail but who is helping these companies get rid of their methane right now. This podcast (6:40) argues that Baker Hughes’s solutions are performing right now in an area of rising regulatory scrutiny and hence growing market importance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6 min
20/04/2021

The Asset Allocator: Ambev - A Major Brewery, Excellent Value

Ambev (ABEV) operates in a country reeling under pandemic, but Brazilians continue to drink beer, revenue is growing and investor fear of Brazil will eventually subside as a commodity boom lifts its currency. This podcast (7:28) argues that Ambev is already increasing revenue while cyclical factors should help it cut costs, fueling a renewed look by investors at an emerging-markets company with a popular product and solid customer base. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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SA For FAs delivers information and analysis that will help Financial Advisors throughout their day. The podcast, hosted by Seeking Alpha editor Gil Weinreich, addresses issues of current interest to Financial Advisors and active investors, including macro analysis of current issues affecting markets; retirement planning; and asset allocation strategy.