651-Can You Invest Better Than a Hedge Fund Manager?
Radical Personal Finance
Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP
4.2 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In order to build wealth over your lifetime you need to #InvestWisely. But, how? How do you do it? What should you invest in?
Today, we discuss that question with an active hedge fund manager named John Medford. He and his team manage a large fund with an impressive record.
And, in this episode, we discuss why you probably shouldn't bother to try competing with him.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less. |
| 0:12.0 | Today we tackle a subject on the show that we have not tackled adequately for some time, |
| 0:16.6 | and that is on the subject of investing wisely. |
| 0:20.8 | How to invest wisely. |
| 0:23.0 | Now the subject of investing is of course massive and can be applied to many aspects of life. |
| 0:28.0 | But specifically today we're going to talk about stock market investing with somebody who is actively involved in the business. |
| 0:34.7 | My guest is John Medford. |
| 0:36.4 | John, go ahead and take a moment and introduce yourself, please. |
| 0:39.3 | Share a little bit about the work that you are currently involved in so my audience can get a context of how |
| 0:44.2 | you're coming to this conversation please. |
| 0:47.0 | Sure, so thanks for having me so I am a partner at an investment firm that invests entirely in publicly traded stocks in the U.S. and in Europe. We've been in business for about 15 years. We manage about |
| 1:08.3 | a billion dollars mostly for high net worth individuals, endowments. We're more specifically a hedge fund which |
| 1:16.2 | has is a dirty word but basically just means it because we're really good |
| 1:21.2 | of what we do we're able to charge more in fees but it |
| 1:24.0 | doesn't have perhaps connotations that typically are associated with it. |
| 1:28.0 | So John Medford is not the name that John was born with by his parents and that's what's giving us the opportunity to dig into some of the things that we're going to dig into. |
| 1:36.0 | So the reason that I wanted to have John on is because in this context we can talk with somebody who's actively involved in the business. |
| 1:45.1 | It's a real challenge for somebody like me who is a podcast host to try to find interesting |
| 1:50.7 | guests who are able to bring an honest inside look to the |
| 1:56.6 | marketplace without having a significant conflict of interest. Generally, interviews |
| 2:02.4 | have to be run through the legal team for compliance |
| 2:05.8 | reasons. Generally, people who are on the show are actively pitching something. |
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