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InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

466- Ulta's Makeup Weather Part 2

InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

Phil Town & Danielle Town

Investing, Business

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The digital age, with all of its monopolies and consolidation across various markets, has also seen a rise in innovation and small companies seeing success by having unprecedented access to consumers through new channels of commerce and communication. With market stability and consumer confidence taking hits in recent years, small luxuries like makeup continue to do well despite the struggles of luxury brands in general. With the success of some niche brands in this highly competitive and specialized sector of cosmetics, what does the weather look like for some of the more established players in the makeup industry? This week, Phil and Danielle wrap up their discussion about the beauty industry and the way that boutique brands might affect the bottom line for the big names in cosmetic products. If you want a huge clue as to whether or not you’re looking into a business that will deliver predictably strong returns, don’t miss out on your free copy of The Big 5 Numbers Guide: https://bit.ly/3psMESQ Topics Discussed: ETFs Augustinus Bader Victoria Beckham Beauty Ulta Sephora Kering LVMH D2C vs retail Cosmetic science Resources Discussed: Lisa Eldridge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody this is Phil Town and this is Daniel Town. Hey welcome to the

0:13.6

invested podcast where we are

0:16.4

very very busy constructing Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger and all of these other investors that are working hard to do real investing.

0:28.0

We're very busy and important.

0:30.0

Didn't we figure that out last week?

0:32.0

By the way the market has gone so deep into exchange-traded funds now,

0:39.0

which Warren Buffett has been recommending for years,

0:42.0

if you're not going to learn how to invest

0:43.8

go get an exchange-traded fund that does the whole market.

0:47.8

Totally agree with him.

0:50.7

But now Charlie Munger, before he died,

0:53.9

started warning that the ETFs are sucking up

0:57.1

so much capital that a handful of ETF managers,

1:01.5

literally three major managers, have enormous voting

1:06.4

control over the market, number one. And number two, the volatility that

1:11.9

comes from having everybody buying something that isn't seeking prices.

1:16.6

It's not seeking value at all.

1:18.2

It's just paying the price, whatever it is.

1:20.2

That's what an ETF does.

1:22.2

It's causing market volatility and as expected this is what we think is that

1:26.7

it's going to create enormous market volatility. So anyway just a brief aside that it's

1:32.2

important to learn how to invest because you've got to put price on things and so we want to buy things at a good price

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