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The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

Eric Balchunas, Bloomberg – Bogle is One of the Investing GOATs | #428

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

The Idea Farm

Business, Investing, Management

4.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is Eric Balchunas, an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence focused on exchange-traded funds and the author of The Bogle Effect: How John Bogle and Vanguard Turned Wall Street Inside Out and Saved Investors Trillions. In today’s episode, we’re talking about the legend John Bogle. Eric covers his early struggles to get Vanguard off the ground and the impact he’s had on the entire investment community. I even ask Eric what he thinks Mr. Bogle would say about my one major disagreement with him. We also touch on a number of big trends within the ETF industry, including direct indexing, possible consolidation, and Mutual Fund to ETF conversions. As we wind down, Eric shares some of his favorite ETF ideas that haven’t been launched yet, including a Congressional replication ETF. ----- Follow Meb on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube For detailed show notes, click here To learn more about our funds and follow us, subscribe to our mailing list or visit us at cambriainvestments.com ----- Interested in sponsoring the show? Email us at [email protected] ----- Past guests include Ed Thorp, Richard Thaler, Jeremy Grantham, Joel Greenblatt, Campbell Harvey, Ivy Zelman, Kathryn Kaminski, Jason Calacanis, Whitney Baker, Aswath Damodaran, Howard Marks, Tom Barton, and many more. ----- Meb's invested in some awesome startups that have passed along discounts to our listeners. Check them out here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Mebb Faver 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. Better

0:17.4

investing starts here.

0:19.4

The Met Faber is the co-founder and chief investment officer at Cambria Investment Management.

0:23.4

Did it industry regulations, he will not discuss any of Cambra's funds on this podcast.

0:27.1

All opinions expressed by podcast participants are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the

0:30.8

opinion of Cambria Investment Management or its affiliates.

0:33.4

For more information, visit Cambria Investments.com.

0:35.6

Hey my friends, we got a really fun show today.

0:42.3

Our guest is my main man

0:43.5

Eric Balconis the analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence hosts the great

0:47.2

podcast trillions and the author of the new book the bogle effect how John Bogle

0:52.3

and Vanguard turned Wall Street inside out and saved investors trillions.

0:56.0

Today's episode, we're talking about the legend, none other than John Bogle.

1:01.0

Eric covers his early struggles to get Vanguard off the ground, impact he's had on the entire

1:05.3

investment community. I even ask Eric what he thinks Mr. Bogel would say about one of my major

1:09.9

disagreements with him. We touch on a number of big trends within the EDF

1:13.7

industry including direct indexing, possible consolidation, and mutual fund to

1:18.0

EDF conversions. As we wind down, Eric shares some of his favorite EDF

1:22.4

ideas that haven't been launched yet.

1:25.3

This episode is brought to you by 10 East. Long time listeners know I have invested in

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