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Animal Spirits Podcast

The Vaccine (EP.176)

Animal Spirits Podcast

The Compound

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On this week's show we discuss what a vaccine would mean for the markets and economy, why a post-pandemic market will be so difficult to handicap, the potential for a massive boom post-vaccine, market moves after the election, corporate America as our strongest institution, why this year has been so challenging for investors and more. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's Animal Spirits is brought to you by our friends at WhyCharts.

0:02.7

Last week Michael and I took a little test run with WhyCharts new dynamic model portfolios

0:08.0

tool. They gave us a little demo on this.

0:10.5

It's pretty cool because most back tests allow you to back test say a 60-40 portfolio

0:16.0

and you take a look at it and see what performed over time

0:19.0

but this dynamic model portfolio allows you to make changes over time to your portfolios.

0:23.1

So you can see had we implemented this change to our asset allocation or this holding,

0:27.6

how would things have looked versus how it actually played out.

0:31.0

And I think one of the big use cases for this is testing out how a change in

0:35.4

allocation or a change in strategy or a change in funds could have affected you positively

0:40.3

or negatively had you not made that change. So this is a cool one.

0:44.0

Go to YCharts.com, tell the manual spirits that

0:46.0

and they'll give you a seven day free trial

0:47.5

and 20% off your initial subscription for signing up.

0:50.8

Welcome to Animal Spirits, a show about markets, life, and investing.

0:55.0

Join Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson as they talk about what they're reading, writing, and watching.

1:01.0

Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson work for Ritholz wealth management.

1:05.4

All opinions expressed by Michael and Ben or any podcast guests are solely their own opinions

1:09.6

and do not reflect the opinion of Rithol's wealth management. This podcast is for

1:13.6

informational purposes only and should not be relied upon for investment

1:16.8

decisions. Clients of Ritt Holt's wealth management may maintain positions in

1:20.2

the securities discussed in this podcast. Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben.

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