Protect Your Wealth From Inflation by Implementing the Alpha Strategy (by John Pugsley): Concept, Implementation, and Problems RPF0084

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Finance, Retirement, Insurance, Business, Money, Education, Self-improvement, Financial, Independence, Growth, Advice, Investing, Family, Personal, Radical, Christian, Faith

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🗓️ 20 October 2014

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Many people today are concerned with the potential impact to their wealth of long-term inflation, mass inflation, and hyper inflation. Few have a plan to deal with it. Today, I present one strategy that could be implemented which would help to protect your standard of living. It’s called The Alpha Strategy. The Alpha Strategy is […]

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0:00.0	Are you concerned with protecting yourself and protecting your wealth against the impact of long-term
0:06.2	inflation?
0:07.2	Today we're going to talk about the Alpha Strategy, which is an eminently implementable strategy. That's very simple and straightforward that will allow
0:15.9	you to protect your wealth from inflation. And then. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheets. Today is Monday, October the 20th, 2014.
0:42.0	And on today's show, we will be discussing the ins and outs of the
0:48.5	Alpha Strategy, so-called because of a book written by John Pugsley,
0:54.0	where he outlined his plan for protecting your wealth from inflation. Like it or not I think almost all of us live in an inflationary environment and we know that to be the fact just simply
1:16.7	as the standard assumptions that we use. Now perhaps there's somewhere in the world where
1:21.2	somebody listening is living under a in a deflationlationary environment.
1:24.4	It does happen from time to time.
1:25.6	It is possible.
1:27.7	But it's unlikely in the Western context.
1:29.8	And we all are comfortable and exposed to the risk of inflation
1:35.7	you know in financial planning standard financial planning we always put in
1:39.7	usually somewhere between a three to four% annual growth of prices to deal with the effect of inflation.
1:48.6	So that's kind of the standard model that we use.
1:53.0	Many people are concerned with the prospect of mass inflation.
1:57.0	Many people are concerned with the prospect of hyper-inflation.
2:00.0	It's very rare, actually, that people will refer to mass inflation.
2:04.0	Usually many people bat the term hyper-inflation around quite readily
2:09.0	without I think often understanding or defining what it is.
2:13.0	And today we're going to talk about a strategy that can work in any of those scenarios.
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