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Ready to grow your wealth through smarter investing decisions? With The Meb Faber Show, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investment fund manager, Meb Faber, brings you insights on today’s markets and the art of investing.

Featuring some of the top investment professionals in the world as his guests, Meb will help you interpret global equity, bond, and commodity markets just like the pros. Whether it’s smart beta, trend following, value investing, or any other timely market topic, each week you’ll hear real market wisdom from the smartest minds in investing today. Better investing starts here.

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Ready to grow your wealth through smarter investing decisions? With The Meb Faber Show, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investment fund manager, Meb Faber, brings you insights on today’s markets and the art of investing.

Featuring some of the top investment professionals in the world as his guests, Meb will help you interpret global equity, bond, and commodity markets just like the pros. Whether it’s smart beta, trend following, value investing, or any other timely market topic, each week you’ll hear real market wisdom from the smartest minds in investing today. Better investing starts here.

For more information on Meb, please visit MebFaber.com. For more on Cambria Investment Management, visit CambriaInvestments.com.

    Grant Williams & Peter Atwater: The Market is 'Long Abstraction, Short Reality' | #525

    Grant Williams & Peter Atwater: The Market is 'Long Abstraction, Short Reality' | #525

    Today’s guests are Peter Atwater and Grant Williams, two guys that have known each other for a decade. Peter is a professor and author of The Confidence Map: Charting a Path from Chaos to Clarity. Grant is the author of the newsletter Things That Make you Go Hmmm… and host of The Grant Williams Podcast. He was also a co-founder of Real Vision.
    Today’s episode is a masterclass in how to analyze market sentiment, which seems particularly timely given how the market has been lately. Peter shares his framework for looking at the world through the lens of certainty and control and how that drives consumer confidence. Then he and Grant kick around a bunch of topics, including the relationship between natural gas and Nvidia, Elon Musk and the velvet rope economy, gold and Bitcoin, the opportunity in Japan, and much, much more.

    (1:40) - Welcome to our guests, Peter Atwater and Grant Williams

    (2:28) - Confidence and vulnerability’s role in financial market

    (6:18) - Elon Musk 0 - 60mph Tweet


    (10:21) - Peter’s take on natural gas and Nvidia

    (13:17) - Class versus wealth

    (17:30) - Thoughts on gold and Bitcoin

    (22:38) - The world of luxury

    (28:43) - The UK stock market

    (33:10) - Why Grant is excited about the Japanese stock market

    (37:14) - Who would Grant want to interview today?

    (38:23) - Modern-Day Asset Management Business w/ Anthony Deden


    (44:29) - Peter and Grant’s most controversial opinions

    (48:59) - Peter and Grant’s most memorable investments

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    • 55 min
    Tim Ranzetta, NGPF - Teaching America Personal Finance | #524

    Tim Ranzetta, NGPF - Teaching America Personal Finance | #524

    Today’s guest is Tim Ranzetta, co-founder of Next Gen Personal Finance, a non-profit organization working to increase access to financial education.
    In today’s episode, Tim updates us on everything going on with Next Gen Personal Finance. You all know I’m a huge proponent of teaching kids personal finance and Tim is as focused on this making this happen as much as anyone. He talks about “Mission 2030,” which is to guarantee every high school student in the US takes at least one semester-long personal finance course by 2030. 
    Tim also shares how you can get involved in your community, along with some books and podcasts he’d suggest for kids to teach them about personal finance.
    I have a feeling in 7 years, Tim will be back on the show to celebrate achieving Mission 2030.  
    Listen to Tim’s first appearance on The Meb Faber Show here.
    (1:30) - Welcome to our guest, Tim Ranzetta; Tim's first episode on the podcast
    (2:03) - Update on Next Gen Personal Finance
    (8:25) - Financial education in California
    (13:31) - Financial education in schools
    (18:27) - Designing the curriculum for personal finance in high schools
    (25:57) - What the future looks like for Next Gen Personal Finance
    (27:49) - How you can get involved 
    (33:01) - Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel; Mind Your Money by Yanely Espinal; How to Adult by Jake Cousineau; Gen Z Money $ense by Ella Gupta
    (34:55) - Lessons learned over the years
    (38:42) - The Invest America program 
    Learn more about Tim: Financial4ca.com; Next Gen Personal Finance
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    • 48 min
    Whitney Baker on The Death of (Upside) American Exceptionalism | #523

    Whitney Baker on The Death of (Upside) American Exceptionalism | #523

    Today’s guest is Whitney Baker, founder of Totem Macro. She previously worked at shops like Bridgewater and Soros.
    In today’s episode, Whitney explains what led to $500 billion in money expansion last year and why that’s driven recent performance in asset prices. She discusses the challenge the Federal Reserve faces as they try to balance inflation concerns with the need to support asset prices.
    Finally, Whitney talks about the huge opportunity she sees in emerging markets today and which countries have attractive valuations and troughing conditions. 
    Listen to Whitney’s appearances in episodes 387 and 453.
    (1:37) - Welcome to our guest, Whitney Baker
    (1:55) - Whitney’s view of the macro landscape
    (4:48) - What led to the money expansion the past few months
    (14:57) - The challenge the Fed faces
    (30:58) - Opportunity in emerging markets
    (40:46) - Interesting markets to keep an eye on
    (48:03) - What leads to Whitney seeing an investment opportunity
    (58:57) - Update from Whitney on launching a new fund
    (1:04:11) - Whitney’s view on gold
    (1:07:17) - Larry Summers Tweet
    (1:10:53) - Whitney’s most controversial viewpoint
    (1:14:44) - Using useful resources from history
    Learn more about Whitney: Twitter; LinkedIn
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    • 1 hr 25 min
    How to Convert an SMA to an ETF with Wes Gray & Robert Elwood | #522

    How to Convert an SMA to an ETF with Wes Gray & Robert Elwood | #522

    Today’s returning guest is Alpha Architect’s Wes Gray, and he’s joined by Bob Elwood, a business lawyer with a focus on investment funds. 
    Wes and Bob just helped complete a separately managed account to ETF conversion of $770 million, so we had to get them on the show to walk through the process! They walk through the process of doing an SMA to ETF conversion via Section 351 from start to finish. They share some of the more nuances involved in the process and answer some common questions they hear over time.
    While the most popular ETF story so far this year is the Bitcoin ETF, this is arguably a bigger long-term story and a trend to watch in the next few years.
    (1:39) - Welcome to our guests, Wes Gray and Robert Elwood; Wes’ prior appearances on the show: how to launch an ETF, 2023 Radio Show, 2021 Radio Show
    (2:11) - Update on Alpha Architect
    (2:59) - Overview of converting SMAs to ETFs via Section 351
    (13:58) - Mutual fund to ETF conversions versus separate account to ETF conversions
    (19:34) - Weighing the advantages and disadvantages of SMA to ETF conversions
    (26:01) - Is Your Alpha Big Enough to Cover Its Taxes? A 25 Year Retrospective
    (26:35) - The case for the tax-free conversion of SMAs into an ETF via Section 351
    (34:35) - Alpha Architect’s connection to former Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy
    (36:37) - Esoteric examples of SMA to ETF conversions
    (38:06) - When does it not make sense to do a conversion?
    (43:23) - The future of Alpha Architect
    Learn more about Bob and Wes: ETF Architect; Alpha Architect
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    • 47 min
    MEBISODE: A Better Approach to Dividend Investing

    MEBISODE: A Better Approach to Dividend Investing

    In today’s episode, Meb reads a paper titled, “A Better Approach to Dividend Investing.” 
    Learn more about the Cambria Shareholder Yield ETF, SYLD.
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    To determine if this Fund is an appropriate investment for you, carefully consider the Fund's investment objectives, risk factors, charges and expense before investing. This and other information can be found in the Fund's full or summary prospectus which may be obtained by calling 855-383-4636 (ETF INFO) or visiting our website at www.cambriafunds.com. Read the prospectus carefully before investing or sending money. 

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    • 8 min
    GMO's Tina Vandersteel on a "Once-in-a-Generation" Opportunity | #521

    GMO's Tina Vandersteel on a "Once-in-a-Generation" Opportunity | #521

    Today’s guest is Tina Vandersteel, who is the head of GMO’s Emerging Country Debt team. She’s been with GMO for almost two decades.
    In today’s episode, we dive into Tina’s teams’ recent piece about what they call a possible “once-in-a-generation opportunity” in emerging market local currency debt. Tina gives a great overview of the emerging market debt asset class and then we dive into the reasons behind her team’s call. She shares why today is reminiscent of 2004 and how she thinks about things like liquidity panics and sanctions risk. And you won’t want to miss her hot take on China.
    It’s not often you see the words ‘once-in-a-generation’ from a well-respected shop like GMO so I’m excited for you all to listen in.
    (1:27) - Welcome Tina to the show
    (2:08) - Overview of emerging market debt
    (4:27) - What are Brady Bonds?
    (7:53) - Delving into sovereign debt issues
    (11:29) - No Stone Unturned
    (12:58) - The overvalued US dollar
    (25:00) - China’s place in emerging debt markets
    (29:33) - Identifying countries at risk of default
    (37:35) - Highlighting opportunities arising from geopolitical events
    (42:12) - Tina’s most memorable investment
    (47:00) - Sharing Tina’s most controversial viewpoint

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    • 56 min

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