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My Worst Investment Ever July 2024

Enrich Your Future 07: The Value of Security Analysis

In this episode of Enrich Your Future, Andrew and Larry Swedroe discuss Larry’s new book, Enrich Your Future: The Keys to Successful Investing. In this series, they discuss Chapter 07: The Value of Security Analysis.

LEARNING: Smart investors, like smart businesspeople, care about results, not efforts.

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ISMS 42: Emerging Markets Are Hurting, but Cheap

  • Introducing emerging markets
  • Our FVMR framework
  • Fundamentals: Emerging markets are about 20% less profitable
  • Valuation: Emerging markets are about 41% cheaper
  • Asset class and region/country allocations

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Ep788: Justus Hammer – Good Idea Versus Wrong Timing

BIO: Justus Hammer is the Group CEO and Co-founder of Mad Paws. Over the past two years, he has invested in over 45 startups. He has served as an advisor and early investor in Airtasker and a founding investor and advisor to VICE Golf.

STORY: Justus developed an idea to make real estate buying easier. He wanted to expand outside of Australia when COVID hit. Justus took a pause, thinking that the market would tank further. Instead, property prices doubled in the next 18 months.

LEARNING: What works in one asset class will not necessarily work in another. The real estate market dynamics are very different in each market. Timing matters, but you can never really know whether your timing is right until after.

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Enrich Your Future 06: Market Efficiency and the Case of Pete Rose

In this episode of Enrich Your Future, Andrew and Larry Swedroe discuss Larry’s new book, Enrich Your Future: The Keys to Successful Investing. In this series, they discuss Chapter 06: Market Efficiency and the Case of Pete Rose.

LEARNING: Don’t try to pick stocks or time the market.

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Enrich Your Future 05: Great Companies Do Not Make High-Return Investments

In this episode of Enrich Your Future, Andrew and Larry Swedroe discuss Larry’s new book, Enrich Your Future: The Keys to Successful Investing. In this series, they discuss Chapter 05: Great Companies Do Not Make High-Return Investments.

LEARNING: A higher PE doesn’t mean a higher expected return.

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Enrich Your Future 04: Why Is Persistent Outperformance So Hard to Find?

In this episode of Enrich Your Future, Andrew and Larry Swedroe discuss Larry’s new book, Enrich Your Future: The Keys to Successful Investing. In this series, they discuss Chapter 04: Why Is Persistent Outperformance So Hard to Find?

LEARNING: Focus on building a robust asset allocation plan, regularly rebalancing it, and stick with it.

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