Reflections on Investing

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Drawing upon his 40 year career in both academia and investment consulting, Prof. Bradford Cornell tackles todays important investing issues from both a practical and scientific perspective. His straightforward approach will help investors or all stripes make reasoned financial decisions. www.cornell-capital.com

  1. 03/20/2025

    Ep65: Tesla's Fountain of Youth Revisited

    The P/E for automobile manufacturers is normally very low. Ford, GM and Toyota currently trade at 7 times earnings. Tesla’s P/E of 114 is unique in the auto industry. Elon Musk’s promises of future growth from humanoid robots and robotaxis have sustained Tesla’s high price but investors should be cautious as stock prices built on future growth expectations can drop just as quickly as they rise.

    9 min

  2. 02/12/2025

    Ep64: Risk

    The perception of risk has a major impact on the level of market prices and helps to explain the increase in prices over the last 15 years.

    8 min

  3. 11/19/2024

    Ep62: Government Debt and Investing

    As Herb Stein “if something cannot go on forever, it will stop”. The current growth of government debt is unsustainable. How will it stop? And what does that mean for investors?

    8 min

  4. 10/30/2024

    Ep61: Stocks and Wealth Creation

    A majority of stocks destroy wealth. In fact, most all of the wealth creation from stocks is attributable to only a handful companies.

    9 min

  5. 09/24/2024

    Ep59: From Earnings to Prices - P/E Multiples

    The combination of P/E multiples and earnings determines stock prices – its basic math. In our last episode of Reflections on Investing we looked at earnings, now we add in the role of the multiple.

    6 min

  6. 09/17/2024

    Ep58: Earnings, the Engine of the Stock Market

    The ultimate source of value for common stocks is the earnings of corporations. In the last four and a half years the S&P 500 has risen 124%. How is that increase related to earnings and what does it imply for the future of the market?

    9 min

  7. 06/03/2024

    Ep57: Risk and Return Revisited

    A common refrain is that to get more return you have to bear more risk. But what exactly is risk? We revisit this important issue.

    9 min

  8. 03/06/2024

    Ep56: The Medallion Fund vs Market Efficiency

    Professor and Nobel Prize winner Eugene Fama put forth the efficient market hypothesis and based on that concept Warren Buffet suggested that holding a passive investment in the S&P 500 was the best advice for most investors. If the market were efficient and if passive investing was best for everyone, how can that be reconciled with the performance of Jim Simons' Renaissance Technologies Medallion fund.

    13 min
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Drawing upon his 40 year career in both academia and investment consulting, Prof. Bradford Cornell tackles todays important investing issues from both a practical and scientific perspective. His straightforward approach will help investors or all stripes make reasoned financial decisions. www.cornell-capital.com

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  • Creator
    Cornell Capital Group LLC
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    64
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Cornell Capital Group LLC
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