Best Idea Show - Wes Gray, Alpha Architect - An ETF Centralizes Everything Into One Product | #258

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

The Idea Farm

Business, Investing, Management

4.7 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode we welcome our guest, Alpha Architect’s founder and CEO, Wes Gray. We’re covering Wes’s best idea: Launching an ETF. We cover the ups and downs of the asset management business, and the different permutations his business went through before eventually landing on the ETF structure as the best way forward. From transparency to tax efficiency to ease of access for investors, we chat about why someone should consider launching an ETF. We spend a lot of time walking through the process of getting a fund up-and-running, which is not for the faint of heart, and even walk through some case studies of some folks that have launched ETFs with Alpha Architect’s white label business. Please enjoy this special “Best Ideas” episode with Alpha Architect’s Wes Gray. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mebb favor Show, where the focus is on helping you grow and preserve your wealth.
0:11.0	Join us as we discuss the craft of investing and
0:13.5	uncover new and profitable ideas all to help you grow wealthier and wiser.
0:17.2	Better investing starts here.
0:18.8	Met Faber is the co-founder and chief investment officer at Cambria Investment Management.
0:23.3	Did it industry regulations, he will not discuss any of Cambry's funds on this podcast.
0:27.2	All opinions expressed by podcast participants are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of
0:31.2	Cambria Investment Management or its affiliates.
0:33.0	For more information, visit Cambria Investments.com.
0:39.0	Hello friends, today we have another installment of our Best Idea series. We have one of our show's
0:44.7	inaugural guests in the house today. He's a former Marine captain, now CEO and
0:50.0	co-founder of Alpha Architect. In today's episode we're covering his best idea
0:55.1	how to launch an E.T. This is a question I get if not every day, certainly every
1:00.6	week. We go deep and cover the ups and downs of the asset
1:04.6	management business and the different permutations his business went through
1:08.0	before eventually landing on the ETF structure is the best path forward.
1:11.9	From transparency to tax efficiency to ease of
1:15.1	access for investors we chat about why someone should consider launching
1:18.7	ATF. We spend a lot of time walking through the process of getting a fun up and running, which is not
1:26.0	for the faint of heart.
1:27.4	We even walk through some case studies of some folks that have launched ETS successfully
1:31.4	with Alpha Architects white label business.
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