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The Compound and Friends

It Was Hard to Lose Money This Year: What Are Your Thoughts? (with Josh and Michael)

The Compound and Friends

Josh Brown

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.72.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick go head-to-head for a brand new What Are Your Thoughts! In the final episode of 2019, Josh and Michael cover: * It was almost impossible to lose money this year * Does the success of DoubleLine over the last decade prove that building an active management company is still possible? * The five best performing stocks in the S&P 500 this year were AMD, Lam Research, KLA-Tencor, Chipotle and....Target? * Why does Michael get bullied online more than Josh? * 2020 analyst forecasts * Josh's anti-coffee rant was trash * Apple is the most emblematic stock of 2019 Let us know your thoughts on these topics! We love to hear from you. 1-click play or subscribe on your favorite podcast app   Subscribe to the mini podcast on iTunes or Spotify    Enable our Alexa skill here - "Alexa, play the Compound show!"   Talk to us about your portfolio or financial plan here:  http://ritholtzwealth.com/   Obviously nothing on this channel should be considered as personalized financial advice just for you or a solicitation to buy or sell any securities. Please see this 3,000 word terms & conditions disclaimer: https://thereformedbroker.com/terms-and-conditions/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi it's Josh Brown welcome to what are your thoughts I'm here with Michael Batnik as always

0:04.7

Michael Michael has no idea what I'm going to ask him about I don't know what he's going to ask me about

0:09.5

it's our favorite game let's play it stick around

0:13.6

Okay I have the first topic, and I think this year was really fascinating.

0:18.8

I tweeted out, it was almost impossible to lose money this year.

0:22.4

So I just want to run down real quick a couple of these returns for some indices.

0:27.8

S&P plus 26.4%, Dow up 20%, Nasdaq up 30 something, 32%. 0.20% percent.

0:32.8

Nasdaq up 30 something, 32 percent.

0:36.7

Russell, 22 percent.

0:38.7

Europe you made money.

0:40.0

20 percent.

0:40.7

Japan, 17 percent.

0:42.4

What's a question?

0:44.2

Emerging more, like go down the list.

0:45.8

The only thing you could have lost money in

0:49.3

is the volatility index if you bought the VIX if you were obsessing with

0:53.8

Val this is one of the years diversification didn't mean having to say you're

0:59.4

sorry like just about everything you did worked because even bonds give you double digits close to.

1:04.6

Yeah, you made money in junk.

1:06.0

All right, so?

1:07.0

You made money in investment grade.

1:08.6

Is it likely that you'll have multiple years in a row

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