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The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

Listener Q&A Episode | #33

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

The Idea Farm

Management, Investing, Business

4.8978 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It’s another Q&A episode before everyone gets too busy with the holiday swirl. Per usual, Meb has just come back from more travel, this time to Todos Santos, Mexico. He gives us a quick update before we hop into listener questions. A few you’ll hear tackled are: -         I don’t really understand Trend. In order to maximize return, wouldn’t it make more sense to buy below the simple moving average, then hold or sell when above it? I’m just applying common sense – buy when cheaper than average. What am I missing?   -         If you were building an investment strategy for the next 30-40 years, would it more resemble the one found in your QTAA paper, an absolute value strategy (similar to what Porter discussed in that podcast), or your Trinity approach, which is more buy/hold with rebalancing?   -         Have you ever considered a strategy that buys put option protection for equity portfolios when valuations are historically high? You could buy long puts or long puts/short calls to offset some of the option premium.   -         Are recent bond yield increases causing you to tweak your bond allocations in the Trinity portfolios?   -         How does your use of momentum differ from Gary Antonacci’s dual momentum system?   -         I’m a banker, and can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard a variation of “Rates are so low at the moment, what a great time to borrow.” What are your thoughts on the long-term debt cycle, and how would you “time” leverage? There’s plenty more, as several of these questions send Meb into deep, labyrinthine rabbit holes – one of which involves his thoughts on how to educate children about investing. He believes most parents today do it entirely wrong. So what’s the right way to raise a world-class investor? Find out in Episode 33. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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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.

0:12.4

Join us as we discuss the craft of investing. helping you grow and preserve your wealth.

0:12.6

Join us as we discuss the craft of investing

0:15.5

and uncover new and profitable ideas,

0:18.2

all to help you grow wealthier and wiser.

0:20.7

Better investing starts here.

0:23.0

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

0:31.0

Due to industry regulations, he will not discuss any of Cambria's funds on this podcast.

0:37.0

All opinions expressed by podcast participants are solely their own opinions

0:41.0

and do not reflect the opinion of Cambria Investment Management or its affiliates.

0:45.2

For more information, visit Cambria Investments.com.

0:50.3

Ala, amigos, welcome to a podcast episode, Q&A with Hefei.

0:59.6

What's up?

1:00.6

Hefe welcome.

1:01.6

I just got back from Mexico, so I've been practicing my Spanish a little bit.

1:05.2

How was the tequila? The tequila was great. You know, the one of the benefits of the US dollar surging is that it's really cheap to go a lot of places,

1:15.3

Mexico, Canada, etc. Baja California is one of my favorite places on the planet.

1:21.3

I've been many times.

1:23.4

You can drive down from LA pretty easy.

1:26.8

So what some people actually don't know

1:28.9

that there's a pretty amazing wine country in northern Baja.

1:35.0

Have you ever been?

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