Ep 509: Expert Investor Karen Finerman’s Bold Bets (and Red Flags) for 2026

HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky Her Money

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The markets are still riding high, but if 2025 taught us anything, it’s that not everything that glitters is gold. In this episode, Jean Chatzky sits down with legendary investor and InvestingFixx co-founder Karen Finerman to unpack the wild ride of 2025: the highs, the flops, the lessons learned, and the big bets she’s making in 2026. We also talk about what makes a winning portfolio, how our InvestingFixx club beat the market, and how you can start building confidence with your own investments, one smart move at a time. In this episode: What Karen’s biggest winner of 2025 says about the market’s resilience Her biggest regret and what she’d do differently Whether the AI hype is starting to look like 1999 How to use the volatility index to make better decisions Why banks might be the most overlooked opportunity of 2026 What our InvestingFixx community got right and how they keep winning Looking for more? Join our InvestingFixx club Listen to How She Does It with Karen Finerman Karen Finerman’s viral end-of-year thread on X Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Olivia Culpo here to tell you all about the launch of the new Abercrombie spring denim collection,
0:05.5	made the way denim should feel. Their denim has always been a staple in my wardrobe and has a wide range of fits,
0:11.4	styles, and washes. Every jean is available in both their classic fit and viral curve love.
0:17.5	Shop in the app, online, and in stores. And the one thing that I look at that helps me is the volatility
0:35.3	index. And when that goes berserk, it's a measure of how much a market
0:40.7	can move in one day. That's the statistical underlying. But really what it is, people call it the
0:44.9	fear and greed gauge. And so when it went from maybe the high teens up into the 50s during the
0:52.2	days after liberation day and I was, you know, I was just getting
0:57.3	crushed. I'm like, you know what, I am not selling my stocks when the volatility index is in the 50s.
1:03.7	That's fear at its maximum.
1:07.8	Hey, everyone. Thanks for joining us today on Her Money.
1:11.1	I'm Gene Chatsky.
1:12.6	So at least when I am taping this, the markets seem to be still a little bit frothy.
1:20.6	There is no other way to put it.
1:23.0	Stock prices have soared.
1:24.2	Optimism is high.
1:25.7	AI continues to drive some truly remarkable innovation.
1:31.6	But as Andrew Ross Sorkin told us in our recent interview, when Euphoria meets indiscriminate spending,
1:38.0	especially in speculative sectors like artificial intelligence, it starts to echo what we saw in the dot-com bubble and burst of
1:47.0	1999, 2000. And while history shows that every crash has eventually been followed by recovery,
1:55.0	it also reminds us we have to stay alert, which is why today we are taking a closer look at what happened
2:02.8	last year in the stock market and what might be ahead in 2026 and how to think clearly
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