Financials: The Volatile Stock Market and a new Approach at Teaching Students to Invest

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🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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When will the stock market volatility end, and what do investors need to know about it? In the latest edition of the Industry Focus: Financials “Between Two Fools” interview series, Wofford Finance Professor Philip Swicegood discusses his unique approach to teaching college students about investing. And, host Jason Moser and Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP discuss the recent stock market volatility, what it means for long-term investors, and what stocks in particular they have their eyes on right now. You’ll hear all this and more in this week’s episode.

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0:00.0	Thanks to NetSuite by Oracle for supporting this episode of Industry Focus.
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0:19.0	Welcome to industry focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day.
0:26.0	It's Monday, December 10th. I'm your host, Jason Moser on today's show.
0:29.0	We're going to try to make sense of all of this market selling that's going on. Of course we'll tap into
0:34.5	Twitter and give you one to watch, but we're beginning this week with another
0:37.9	installment of Between Two Fools. Dr. Philip Swicegood is a professor of finance at Wofford College and chairs the Department of
0:45.3	Accounting, Business, and Finance.
0:47.7	He's also part of the James Atkins Fund, a student-run fund that provides Wofford students
0:52.4	with real-life investment
0:53.7	experience by managing a diversified investment portfolio.
0:57.8	On this week's Between Two Fools, Philip and I talked about the James Atkins Fund in the
1:01.9	unique way they're using the funds gains to help people
1:04.4	in less fortunate parts of the world pursue their entrepreneurial teams.
1:08.8	So Philip, give us an idea of who you are and how you ultimately got to Wofford.
1:12.9	I know you got to Wofford in 2005,
1:15.1	but you have a very interesting work history.
1:17.2	Tell us a little bit about it.
1:19.4	Sure.
1:20.1	This is my 14th year that I've been here at Wofford College.
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