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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.5 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

To start another week: 0:27 Introduction to Hedge Funds 1:57 Hedge Fund Slogans and Fees 5:04 Hedge Fund Performance vs. S&P 500 8:43 The Problem with Hedge Fund Strategies 11:08 The Grift of Hedge Funds 12:48 Listener Questions Begin 15:48 Flashbacks to 2008 Financial Crisis 17:19 Investing in ETFs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The five pound meal deal from McDonald's.

0:02.0

Get a cheeseburger or mayo chicken, medium fries, four McNuggets and a medium soft drink for guess what?

0:08.0

That's right, five pounds.

0:10.0

It's not called the five pound meal deal for nothing.

0:14.0

From 11 AM, not available on delivery.

0:16.0

Carbonated soft drink upgrade fees apply.

0:18.0

Participating restaurants, subjects availability.

0:27.7

Reality Radio for a really great future.

0:29.7

We're talking real money.

0:35.1

Investing would be so much easier, cleaner.

0:37.1

Understandable. If there weren't so many people hanging out on various high-rent

0:43.9

street corners with their hands out trying to take money from you. And the most egregious

0:53.0

grifters out there, I think that's a reasonable word for them. The most egregious grifters out there. I think that's a reasonable word for them. The most egregious,

0:58.6

and yet the wealthiest of all the grifters are probably the folks who run these things called

1:04.6

hedge funds. Now, we haven't talked about hedge funds in a while because, well, you know, since the

1:09.6

famous bet between Warren Buffett and the hedge fund dude about hedge funds winning over 10 years over the S&P 500.

1:16.8

But okay.

1:18.1

I didn't know it was your thunder.

1:21.7

Anyway, hedge funds lost.

1:25.0

Hedge funds lost.

1:25.7

We'll give you the actual numbers here in a minute, but yes, they did. Hedge funds lost. Hedge funds lost. We'll give you the actual numbers here in a minute, but yes, they did.

1:29.0

Hedge funds lost.

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