Now Know This - Investments, Economics, Behavior

Now Know This - Investments, Economics, Behavior

The Now Know This Podcast will explore what the science says about the world of investing in an entertaining and easy-to-digest format. We’ll cut through the noise and discuss everything you need to know, from Nobel Prize-winning research to timeless wisdom from the giants of investing. Many listeners will be surprised to discover that the best way to invest is relatively simple and straightforward, yet the vast majority of investors don’t follow the science because of their behavior.

Episodes

November 11, 2021 35 mins

Link to Cole's article here: https://inscriptioncapital.com/insights/2021/9/22/why-investing-is-like-dieting

If you want to lose weight, it’s relatively simple: Burn more calories than you consume. All else equal, if you follow this formula, you’ll lose weight. Yet, as we all very well know, doing this day in and day out is anything but easy. Life, and more especially our behavior, gets in the way. This behavioral pro...

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If you are a US citizen or resident living abroad or thinking about moving abroad, or if you are a non US citizen/resident thinking about moving to the US or investing in the US then this episode is full of important things you need to be aware of. 

Sebastien Chain joined Chamberlain Hrdlicka in 2011 and concentrates his practice on federal, state and local tax controversies, both civil and criminal, and he represents clients at the...

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The efficient market hypothesis is a hypothesis that states that share prices reflect all information and consistent market outperformance is virtually impossible. Dr. Eugene Fama, is the father of this theory and in today's podcast we take a deep dive explaining everything you need to know about it. 



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Today we are talking about real estate. If you are at all interested in learning more about real estate investing you will definitely find todays conversation interesting. Our guest expert today is Adam Allen. Adam is a managing principal and founder of Marble Capital, LP a multimillion-dollar real estate private equity firm based in Houston, TX. 

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March 10, 2021 32 mins

In this episode we will cover everything you need to know about all the different types of fees and costs the investment industry charges. Understating these fees and costs is crucial to your longterm investment success. 

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Today we are going to talk about the Texas energy grid. Last week the grid came very close to a complete meltdown that could have made Texas go dark for months. An unprecedented winter storm hit the state so hard that many power producers from Natural Gas to Nuclear and wind were brought to their knees. With us to help explain what happened, why it happened, and what can be done so this does not happen again are Nick Altman and Pet...

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If you are an entrepreneur and at all interested in international business and how to evaluate risks more efficiently then you will certainly find todays podcast super informative. We are going to take a deeper dive into the types of risks investors take by hearing the story behind two successful entrepreneurial brothers, Mohammed and Subhi Khudairi. Mohammed and Subhi, together with their father Aziz, started Khudari Group in 2004...

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January 31, 2021 35 mins

Today we are going to be talking about the recent news involving GameStop and a few other companies that have recently skyrocketed in the stock market. 

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If you are at all interested in learning how to create optimal investment portfolios to achieve your long-term goals you are definitely going to want to listen to our podcast about the two main types of risks investors take: idiosyncratic and systematic. 


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Today we’ll be talking about ESG Investing which stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. ESG has gained a lot of traction in the investment world lately and is often referred to as sustainable investing. The idea here is that ESG investors look for companies that not only seek great cash flows or EBITA numbers but also positive returns and long-term impact on society and the environment. Investors are starting to demand t...

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In this episode, we summarize a great new book that came out in 2020 called The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel. The book takes a deep dive into exploring how we behave with money. "Doing Well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people". - Book summary of The Psychology of Money. 


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Understanding whether your investment outcomes are attributable to luck or skill is extremely difficult to disentangle which makes it virtually impossible to identify a skilled investor before they become skillful. Lots of research has been done on this topic and I am very excited to have the author of those published academic papers with us today.  

Dr. Alan Crane is a Professor of Finance at Rice University’s Jones School of Busin...

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Understanding the zero-sum game theory is crucial to understanding why it's so difficult to outperform the markets in the long run. The theory basically states that the market consists of the holdings of all investors, and that the aggregate market return is equal to the asset-weighted return of all market participants and that based on this, for each position that outperforms the market, there must be a position that underper...

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December 5, 2020 42 mins

In this episode, we talk about Bitcoin. What it is, the pros and cons, and how it is making us rethink what money is. 

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The economics of the media episode explores how the industry's current business model might be damaging our democratic norms and examines possibilities of how it could change. 

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November 11, 2020 27 mins

Risk and reward are two sides of the same coin. This episode takes a deep dive into how they are related and how you should think about them when investing.

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November 2, 2020 17 mins

Everything you need to know about equity in less than 25 minutes. 

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October 29, 2020 31 mins

Part 1 of a 2 part series on financial assets covering all things debt. 

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What does science say about active and passive investing? 

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There is an allure to trying to time the market. Get it right and your investment returns will skyrocket, get it wrong and you will wish you had just left your money in cash. 

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