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Hello again, everyone.

I'm Don.

Tom's over there.

This is Talking Real Money.

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8-55-9-35-8-25-5255. And today, let's start the episode off with, well, let's start with the basics.

Let's start at the beginning, the very beginning, the very beginning of the alphabet, the very

beginning of the Greek alphabet, which is kind of close to the beginning

of alphabets. The word is alpha, alpha, alpha, the first letter of the alphabet. What does alpha mean?

Alpha dogs, alpha males. I just checked, by the way, neither of us are on the alpha male list, just so you know.

Excuse me, sir.

Sorry, I hope that isn't too hurtful.

I have to pretend to be one because I'm the president of my homeowners association, so I have to pretend to be an alpha dog.

Stand up there and try and hold them all off.

Anyway, but there is a, it's used in finance the term alpha alpha

alpha means adding return it is the addition of return over and above what you would expect

for the risk profile of an investment which people have a tendency to forget.

They just, I made a lot of money.

Yeah, how much risk did you take to get there?

And what we all look for, whether we know it by that term or not, as investors, most of us are out there looking for a way to get extra alpha extra return we want alpha now for 20 years

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