Alpha Architect – Wes Gray
Money Tree Investing
Money Tree Investing Podcast
4.6 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Wes Gray is a man of many talents. He was a Captain in US Marine Corp, has a PhD in Finance and Univ of Chicago, and now run Alpha Architect. We discuss a lot of areas on this episode. I know you will enjoy it.
We discuss the value of using common sense with the quant approach, whether Value investing is making a come back ( I like this one), poor man's managed futures, the biggest risks right now, when to use discretion, inflation protection, and more.
Today's Panelists:
- Kirk Chisholm | Innovative Wealth
- Megan Gorman | The Wealth Intersection
- Douglas Heagren | ProCollege Planners
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast. |
| 0:04.7 | Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life. |
| 0:11.1 | Hello, the Smart Money Tree podcast listeners. |
| 0:13.2 | Welcome to this week's show. |
| 0:14.4 | My name's Kirk Chisholm and I will be your host. |
| 0:16.8 | So today we're talking with Wes Gray. |
| 0:18.6 | How you doing today, Wes? |
| 0:19.7 | Great. |
| 0:20.3 | Happy to be here, |
| 0:21.0 | Kirk. Glad to finally get Wes on the show. He's just a wealth of wisdom and want to just dive right in here. |
| 0:26.4 | But before we do, Wes, when do you tell us a bit about your background? I am a former United States Marine, |
| 0:32.3 | which is a unique aspect to be an asset manager. And I have a MBA PhD from University of Chicago left there. I was a |
| 0:40.3 | professor. And then simultaneously to when I started being a finance professor, I actually got |
| 0:46.0 | cold call by a billionaire who had read my blog and read my dissertation. And kind of while I was |
| 0:52.8 | professing, I was also getting put in business by this huge family office. That was back in 2010. And ever since then, we've just been operating an asset. I end up leaving my professor job. I think that was 2015. So seven, eight years ago now. And we now run an asset manager firm where we do manage accounts. |
| 1:12.0 | We run ETFs. We have our own ETFs, et cetera. |
| 1:15.5 | It's a good segue here. How does it compare the academia to the practical nature of investing? |
| 1:22.2 | What did you see as kind of the biggest differences? |
| 1:24.5 | The one thing I would say is like, so getting a PhD is generally a waste of time |
| 1:28.8 | in the sense that if you want to be a practitioner, you know, try to make money. Being a PhD or having a |
| 1:35.0 | PhD is not really a good use of time because you've got to spend four or five years of your life, |
| 1:39.1 | getting hazed by professors and like doing research, you know, blowing your brains out in the back room on a |
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