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InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

48- Risk vs. Volatility

InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

Phil Town & Danielle Town

Business, Investing

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Does volatility mean that you’re taking more risk? This week we discuss short-term thinking vs. long-term thinking in investing and why your relationship with risk might be related to your thinking. For show notes and more information visit www.investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody this is Phil Town this is Phil Town and we're here for the

0:08.9

invested podcast where we're looking at about the style of invested that was made famous by first

0:14.8

Ben Graham in the 1930s the style of investing that was made famous

0:18.8

by Ben Graham. You said invested which I loved.

0:22.6

Oh, the style of invested.

0:24.0

This is the style of getting invested.

0:25.8

It's the style of being invested.

0:30.4

One day we'll figure out what this podcast is all about, but essentially we already know it's definitely about

0:36.4

creating a practice of investing.

0:39.7

Yeah. And it's about getting yourself committed to that practice.

0:45.0

It's about, therefore then practicing, which is all the Warren Buffett information and Charlie Munger information.

0:53.0

And we tell you that it's pretty different than anything else you're going to hear out there, and it is because

0:58.0

we're going to take a fairly unpopular, I would say even radical point of view that says, at least I'm taking this,

1:06.1

I'm taking this point of view, that says that you're not investing, if you're not buying assets for some discount to their real value.

1:19.3

And if you don't know the real value of something you're buying you're really not investing

1:24.5

you're just rolling the dice and hoping that the thing goes up and this

1:29.9

the greater fool theory the greater fool theory well not greater fool theory, well not necessarily.

1:33.5

I mean the value could go up, if you're lucky,

1:37.0

but you don't know what the value is.

1:38.6

Yeah.

1:39.8

I guess it's saying that a greater fool may not be necessary if an experienced investor comes

1:46.6

along and determines that the value is higher than what you paid for it, you might get some

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