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Two Quants and a Financial Planner | Bridging the Worlds of Investing and Financial Planning Jack Forehand, Justin Carbonneau and Matt Zeigler
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Two Quants and a Financial Planner bridges the worlds of investing and financial planning to help investors achieve their long-term goals. Join Matt Zeigler, Jack Forehand and Justin Carbonneau as they cover a wide range of investing and financial planning topics that impact all of us and discuss how we can apply them in the real world to achieve the best outcomes in our financial lives.
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The Double-Edged Sword of Trend Following
In this episode of Two Quants and a Financial Planner, we dive deep into the world of trend following investment strategies. We explain what trend following is, discuss the potential benefits such as downside protection during bear markets, and explore some of the challenges involved, including false signals, whipsaw risk, and the difficulty of sticking with the strategy during underperforming periods. We also talk about how trend following can be incorporated as one component of a diversified investment portfolio and why the sizing and blending of strategies is so important.
We hope you enjoy the discussion.
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The Importance of Managing Drawdowns in Retirement
In this episode of Two Quants and a Financial Planner, we dive into the important topic of withdrawal rates and retirement planning. We discuss how Monte Carlo simulations can help us understand the potential outcomes and risks associated with different withdrawal strategies. We also explore the concept of sequence of returns risk and how it can impact a portfolio's longevity. Additionally, we examine how utilizing different asset classes and employing factor investing can potentially enhance retirement outcomes.
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An In Depth Look at Low Volatility Investing
In investing, there is supposed to be a clear tradeoff between return and risk. Strategies that reduce risk are also supposed to come with a corresponding reduction in return But one factor defies that tradeoff. In this episode, we look at the low volatility factor. We discuss how it is measured, why it works and how it can be used in portfolios. We also examine some popular low volatility ETFs and look at the key criteria investors should look at when evaluating them.
We hope you enjoy the discussion.
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Lessons from Danny Kahneman | Investing in Practice Rather Than Theory
When we start in the investing world, many of us think building the perfect investment strategy is about data and numbers and theory. We think the strategy that works best on paper will also work best in the real world. But it doesn't work that way. And the main reason is that all of us are not what economic theory would call "rational actors". All three of us owe a huge debt to Danny Kahneman for his groundbreaking research that taught us that. Danny recently passed away and as a tribute to him and his work, we wanted to do an episode where we discuss the lessons we learned from him. We discuss system one and system two thinking, prospect theory, anchoring, the availability heuristic, the dangers of overconfidence and how we put all of it to use in the real-world building investment strategies and managing client portfolios.
We hope you enjoy the discussion.
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Understanding the Measurement of Inflation
With the rise of inflation in the past few years, many investors have been paying attention to metrics that they largely ignored for decades. Measures like the CPI and PCE have now become front page news when they are released each month. But despite quoting them all the time, many investors don't understand what goes into them and how they are calculated. In this episode, we try to correct that. We take a deep dive into the metrics that are used to measure inflation and the details behind them. We cover the CPI, PCE and the behind-the-scenes metrics like owner's equivalent rent that go into their calculation. We also look at more real time metrics like Truflation and look at what it all means from both an investing and financial planning perspective.
We hope you enjoy the discussion.
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FOLLOW JACK
Twitter: https://twitter.com/practicalquant
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-forehand-8015094
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10 Lessons From Warren Buffett's Annual Letter
Warren Buffett recently released his 2024 annual letter. And this one was a particularly notable one since it was the first since the passing of Charlie Munger. Buffett wrote a beautiful tribute to Munger in the letter and as is always the case also shared many timeless investing lessons. In this episode, we share our biggest takeaways from the letter and the lessons we think investors can learn from it.
We hope you enjoy the discussion.
SEE LATEST EPISODES
https://excessreturnspod.com
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT VALIDEA CAPITAL
https://www.valideacapital.com
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT SUNPOINTE INVESTMENTS
https://sunpointeinvestments.com/
FOLLOW JACK
Twitter: https://twitter.com/practicalquant
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-forehand-8015094
FOLLOW JUSTIN
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jjcarbonneau
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcarbonneau
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Informative show with great discussions!
This show is so informative! Great info as well as fun banter with the hosts and guests. Definitely worth checking out. I really enjoyed the episode, Understanding the Business of Franchising, with FranNet expert, Ben Terrill. Understanding the pros and cons of stepping into the entrepreneurial game as well as learning Ben's strategize for finding the exact franchise for potential owners... Great conversation. Keep up the good work, Jack, Justin, and Matt!