InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast
481 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsPhil Town is a hedge fund manager and author of 3 New York Times best-selling investment books, Invested, Rule #1, and Payback Time. On the InvestED podcast, Phil and his daughter Danielle shine a light on the successful investing strategies that gurus like Warren Buffett have used for 80 years. Listen in for a great stock market education on basics, learn how to invest on your own, and follow along with real-time examples and investing tips from week to week. Subscribe and leave a review. Questions? Email [email protected].
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230- Warren Buffett's Birthday (Part 2)
September 10, 2019 19:39 - 37 minutesFor show notes and more information, visit investedpodcast.com. Today on InvestED Phil and Danielle expand on their discussion of Warren Buffett and his achievements as he continues to inspire many to follow in his footsteps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
229- Warren Buffett's Birthday
September 03, 2019 21:16 - 44 minutesFor show notes and more information, visit www.investedpodcast.com. Warren Buffett is living proof that it is possible for an ordinary person of ordinary intelligence to invest and have low risk and high returns. On this week’s episode of InvestED, we celebrate Warren Buffett’s 89th birthday and commemorate all of his successes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
228- Quick Questions: Investing Vs. Speculating
August 27, 2019 20:38 - 27 minutesFor show notes and more information, visit www.investedpodcast.com. It is possible as an investor to get high returns without high risk? That’s the basis of Rule #1 Investing. In this week’s episode, Phil and Danielle explain the difference between being an investor and being a speculator as well as how important it is to really understand what you own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
227- Buybacks (Part 4)
August 20, 2019 18:56 - 36 minutesFor show notes and more information, visit www.investedpodcast.com. This week Phil and Danielle finish up the final episode of a four-part series on buybacks. A significant question that arises during their conversation is whether or not buybacks are driven by a lack of integrity with management. The resulting answer is, unfortunately, more often than not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
226- Buybacks (Part 3)
August 13, 2019 21:27 - 43 minutesFor show notes and more information, visit investedpodcast.com. Phil and Danielle continue their four-part series on buybacks in this episode of InvestED. They use common situations to illustrate exactly what a buyback is and what occurs when a company buys back its shares of stock. Companies distribute shares such as a pizzeria selling pieces of a pie, issuing slices of its ownership when it becomes public. When a company retires two pieces of its pizza pie by buying them back, what then hap...
225- Buybacks (Part 2)
August 06, 2019 23:05 - 32 minutesThis week Phil and Danielle continue their conversation by talking about companies using their extra money to buy back their own stock. The conversation shifts when they discuss varying choices that companies make when board members want to retain or increase their control. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
224- Buybacks (Part 1)
July 30, 2019 21:07 - 27 minutesFor show notes and more info visit www.investedpodcast.com This week, Phil and Danielle talk about companies using their extra money to buyback their own stock. Phil also talks about what a company being “too hard” means. A company is too hard when you can’t understand it, you can’t predict where they’re going to be in 10 years, or even companies you can’t figure out what they’re worth. Keep it simple. If there’s something about a company that you can’t understand, it’s simply, too hard. Here...
223- From the Vault: Justin’s Butter & Digging Your Canyon
July 23, 2019 21:58 - 51 minutesFor show notes and more information visit www.investedpodcast.com. This week Phil and Danielle continue their From the Vault series and reintroduce Justin’s Nut Butter. In this episode, they go through a brief history of Justin’s Nut Butter, discuss how to evaluate a company for investing, and explain how to “dig your canyon.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
222- Short Selling Tesla
July 16, 2019 04:00 - 43 minutesFor show notes and more information, visit www.investedpodcast.com. This week, Phil and Danielle continue their discussion of Tesla. They jump into the definition of short selling a stock and why people are shorting Tesla right now. Phil explains what a short sell is and when someone might think about shorting a stock. Phil talks about why it’s very difficult to be a short seller because, not only do you have to be right about the stock, but you have to be right and get the timing perfectly. ...
221- Fears Surrounding Tesla
July 09, 2019 20:38 - 42 minutesFor show notes and more information, visit investedpodcast.com. This week we talk about what’s going on with Tesla and Elon Musk right now. Phil talks about a big problem for Tesla. Competition, disruption, and innovation. By the year 2022, there are expected to be over 200 electric cars on the market. That’s just 3 years from now. It’s a little scary that Tesla is running hard into the teeth of competition that’s been built on it’s back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...
220- From the Vault: Risky Market
July 02, 2019 19:27 - 36 minutesThis week, we're continuing our From the Vault series here with one from the beginning of 2019, when we talked about the risky market that we're in. Things really haven't changed much in the past 6 months. Check it out and see what you think. Happy Fourth of July. For show notes and more information, visit investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
219- From the Vault: Let’s Talk About Tesla
June 25, 2019 21:03 - 32 minutesAlmost two years ago, Phil and Danielle talked about Tesla, its inner workings and the ups and downs in the stock price. They also talked about whether or not its stock price has anything to do with its actual value as a company. Now Tesla is back in the news for having been again, up and down, and the same questions are still out there. Let’s play this one from the vault. For show notes and more info visit investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
218- John Assaraf on How to Turn Fear into Fuel
June 18, 2019 22:25 - 48 minutesThis week, InvestED welcomes John Assaraf to the show. John is one of the leading mindset and behavioral experts in the entire world. He's been on Larry King Live and Anderson Cooper, the Ellen Show. He's built five multimillion dollar companies, written multiple New York Times best-selling books and, he's been in eight movies including the Secret. He's the founder and CEO of Neurogym, which is a company that uses the most advanced technologies and brain training methods to help people unlock...
217- Warren Buffett Quotes (Part 2)
June 11, 2019 21:18 - 39 minutesThis week, Phil and Danielle continue their discussion of Warren Buffett quotes. Warren Buffett Quotes from this Episode “A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one time huge, but solvable problem.” A marvelous business has a very specific definition, it's one, that you can look into the future with a pretty high degree of certainty about this company being more productive and bigger than it is today. And by the future, I mean, five to 10 years out. The...
216- Warren Buffett Quotes
June 04, 2019 21:43 - 38 minutesThis week, Phil and Danielle talk about a book called My Warren Buffett Bible written by Robert L. Bloch. Robert Bloch’s father was Henry Bloch who started H&R Block. Phil talks about the “practice” of investing as something that you can really love. Investing doesn’t have to be hard or stressful. You can enjoy the practice of research and find joy in what you’re doing. They also talk about the gigantic brand Moat that Disney has built as well as the problem with large companies with a lot of...
215- What Stocks to Buy for Your Children?
May 28, 2019 22:31 - 36 minutesFor show notes and more info visit www.investedpodcast.com. “The advice, buy and hold, is very good advice, as long as hold means 40 to 60 years.” - Phil Town This week, Phil and Danielle talk about parents buying stocks for children. She has a couple of choices. The first choice is to do what Buffett says to do and buy the US stock index, SPY. Or you can buy individual companies. What would you do for your child? They also talk about the differences between indexes like the S&P 500 or the R...
214- Berkshire Annual Meeting 2019 Recap (Part 2)
May 21, 2019 21:32 - 39 minutesIn this episode, Phil and Danielle continue their talk about their experiences at the Berkshire Annual Meeting. Phil talks about the “3F’s” of starting a fund. Friends, Family, and Fools. They also talk about what Berkshire’s core competencies are. Buffett answered this question by saying, “We really don’t have one. We don’t expect to know anything particularly except how to pick people that have a core competency.” They also discuss ESG companies. ESG companies is a new way of talking about...
213- Cheryl Einhorn on Investing Decision-Making & Research
May 14, 2019 20:23 - 44 minutesFor show notes and more information, visit investedpodcast.com. This week, Danielle welcomes Cheryl Strauss Einhorn to Invested. Cheryl is the creator of the Area Method which is a decision-making system to solve complex problems. In investing, we're all trying to solve for the problem of which companies we should put our hard earned money into. Her book, Investing in Financial Research, a Decision-Making System for Better Results. She’s also the author of the award-winning book, Problem So...
212- Berkshire Annual Meeting 2019 Recap (Part 1)
May 07, 2019 19:02 - 41 minutesFor show notes and more information visit investedpodcast.com This week Phil and Danielle record the podcast in person, in Omaha after attending the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. They talk about all of the fanboys that come to the meeting and what the atmosphere is like. They also talk about “Warren Buffett buying Amazon” and how the news headlines were very wrong and the difference between “New Buffett” investing and “Old Buffett” investing. Phil and Danielle also discuss why Buffett is...
211- Gillian Zoe Segal on Interviewing Warren Buffett
April 30, 2019 17:02 - 38 minutesFor show notes and more info visit investedpodcast.com This week, Danielle talks to Gillian Zoe Segal about how she was able to interview Warren Buffett for her book, Getting There. Gillian is the author of two books. The first one is called New York Characters and the second one is called the Getting There. She is also an amazing photographer and she took all the photos in the book. Getting There is a compilation of essays written by a number of luminaries. And one of them is Warren Buffett....
210- Mistakes of Omission
April 23, 2019 22:22 - 51 minutes“The practice of investing implies joy in the process of learning something that's difficult.” - Phil Town For show notes and more information visit investedpodcast.com. This week Phil and Danielle talk about what Charlie Munger calls, “Mistakes of Omission.” You can get pretty good at investing pretty quickly because there are only a few rules that you need to follow. One of the hardest things about investing the agony of missing out on something because you’re not confident or clear, or you...
209- How to Love Investing [From Ask Us Anything Call]
April 16, 2019 19:36 - 26 minutesThis week Phil and Danielle playback a couple of really good questions that were asked in their “Ask Us Anything” call. The first question is about teaching your kids about investing. Phil tried to teach Danielle when she was younger to get her involved with investing. Ben has tried to get his daughter to read Invested without any luck. Phil and Danielle provide a bit of advice on how to get kids interested in investing. The next questions involve how to get other family members interested in...
208- Jacob Taylor Author of "The Rebel Allocator"
April 09, 2019 17:19 - 47 minutesThis week Phil and Danielle talk to Jacob Taylor, the author of The Rebel Allocator. Jake Taylor is the Chief Executive Officer of Farnam Street Investments. He’s also the host of the popular web series Five Good Questions. Jake has an MBA in Finance and Accounting from UC Davis. While in school, Jake had a chance lunch with Warren Buffett which solidified his path toward being a professional value investor. Jake enjoys reading, health, fitness, staying active outdoors and finding adventure. ...
207- Inverted Yield Curve
April 02, 2019 18:19 - 52 minutesFor show notes and more info, visit investedpodcast.com. This week, Phil and Danielle talk about the fact that 30% of the stock market is not invested in individual stocks, but in indexes. Many investors fear the effects of so many people owning indexes rather than the underlying companies. They also discuss the inverted yield curve, what it is, and what it means for investors. Phil also discusses the fear that baby boomers have about a market crash, destroying 50% of their retirement. Findin...
206- Finding Buffett
March 26, 2019 15:17 - 45 minutesThis week Phil and Danielle discuss the importance of making your own investing choices. It’s easy for someone to follow Warren Buffett and to likely make money if you mirror his choices, but it’s what happens when he pulls his money out of the market and you don’t know what to do with your money… that’s when you run into trouble. For show notes and more information visit www.investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
205- Warren Buffett’s Annual Letter
March 19, 2019 12:00 - 34 minutesFor show notes and more information visit investedpodcast.com. This week Phil and Danielle talk about why Charlie Munger is so bitter about missing out on a stock purchase in the 1970s. Phil talks about what he calls “Mistakes of Omission”. Phil also talks about why it’s extremely hard to find a company that’s on sale right now. He’s not alone in this. Warren Buffett shares in his annual letter that he’d love to buy a huge company, but that nothing is priced on sale right now. It’s also ha...
204- Short-Termism
March 12, 2019 23:13 - 38 minutesFor show notes and more information visit investedpodcast.com. In this episode, Danielle and Phil discuss why short term viewpoints in the stock market are terrible. When analysts upgrade or downgrade a stock and the price drops, it’s terrible. When companies miss on earnings and the market responds with stock price dips, it’s terrible. Once you start having to hit a certain number every quarter rather than having to hit a certain number over the next five years, it becomes risky. What starte...
203- Charlie Munger Daily Journal Annual Meeting
March 05, 2019 20:26 - 29 minutesThis week Phil and Danielle discuss key takeaways from Charlie Munger’s Daily Journal Annual Meeting that took place at the end of February 2019. In the meeting, Charlie complained at fund managers try to beat the market and don’t, but still charge for it. Charlie’s main philosophy is to do less. They never had the illusion that they could get really useful information on all subjects. They realized that if they worked hard on a few things, and do those things really well, they would come out...
202- The Glass Ceiling
February 26, 2019 23:15 - 34 minutesThis week Phil and Danielle discuss why the financial industry doesn't want you to have the ability to do what they do. They don’t want to give you the “secret formula” so they make finance seem complicated. You don't know Sharpe Ratio. You don't know Capital Asset Pricing Models. You don't know how to adjust for the Beta. Here’s the bottom line though, all of these things that are taught in the business schools, are BS. We also talk about our upcoming interview with Jacob Taylor and announc...
201- Investing Success & Indexing
February 19, 2019 19:01 - 44 minutesThis week, Phil and Danielle continue their discussion of Ray Dalio’s 5 principles for inevitable success. If you haven’t listened to episode 200 you probably want to start there. We also discuss how difficult it is to understand why you made a mistake and how to fix it. Phil thinks that most of the time mistakes happen because you don’t fully understand something. Phil illustrates this by telling the story of the almond orchard that he purchased. The most important thing that you can do to t...
200- 5 Principles for Inevitable Success
February 12, 2019 21:25 - 43 minutesThis week Phil and Danielle celebrate the 200th episode of InvestED: The Rule #1 Podcast! During this episode, we talk about how you can guarantee success in investing and life. We talk about Ray Dalio, the owner of Bridgewater Capital, who manages $160 billion in assets. Ray manages all of his money based on a very strict set of investing principles. He’s been able to achieve phenomenal returns. 18% over the past 36 years. For show notes and more information visit www.investedpodcast.com Lea...
199- Recession Prepping?
February 05, 2019 17:52 - 34 minutesThis week Phil and Danielle discuss prepping for the next recession. Seth Klarman published a paper to his investors that is a little scary. It basically takes a grim position on the economy and where we're at. We’re at the end of a long credit cycle with a ton of debt, there’s potential of recession, potential depression, potential wars, potential riots. A lot of really unpleasant things can happen at the end of a credit cycle when you simply have too much debt worldwide. We also talk about ...
198- IPOs & Uber
January 29, 2019 20:13 - 44 minutes“When we value a company we want to look at a company that has a track record of 10 years. Especially, the last 10 years. IPOs are in the risky biz portfolio for lack of a long track record. ” - Phil Town This week we discuss why we’re in such a wild stock market. The market dropped 15% and is working its way back up. We've got the “Trump Effect” going on and we're in our 10th year of no recession. That's the longest in American history. We’re also at a Shiller PE that hasn’t been this 140 ye...
197- Special Guest: Kelly Hultgren, Co-Founder of HerMoney Media Inc.
January 22, 2019 19:01 - 28 minutesThis week Danielle talks to Kelly Hultgren of HerMoney Media. Kelly is a journalist and podcaster based in New York City, covering personal finance and entrepreneurship. Since 2013, she's been reporting and producing for Jean Chatzky, the longtime financial editor for the NBC TODAY show. For show notes and more information visit www.investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
196- Risky Market
January 15, 2019 21:50 - 35 minutes“What makes a stock market dangerous is the fear and emotion that it creates when it drops.” - Phil Town How do you invest safely in a dangerous stock market? This week we dive into what makes the stock market so dangerous. In the long run, the stock market will rise again and your investments, especially if you own wonderful businesses, will come out ahead down the road somewhere. Unfortunately, what makes it dangerous is that somewhere down the road has been as long as 26 years. We also dis...
195- New Year, New Stock Market Outlook
January 08, 2019 17:26 - 38 minutesThis week we discuss why index investing isn’t really speculating because you’re betting on the US to be more prosperous in 10 years than it is today because indexes parallel the US stock market. We talk about what makes the US a good economy (and stock market) to bet on. We analyze the United States using the 4Ms of investing. We discuss why the average PE Ratio of the S&P 500 for the last 100 years has been about 15. Finally, we talk about how recessions typically cycle and what’s going on ...
194- A Special Merry Christmas Thank You
December 25, 2018 17:00 - 6 minutesToday is Christmas Day and we wanted to extend a special thank you to all of our listeners and Rule #1 Family. We're looking forward to all of the things that 2019 is going to bring us. We'll resume the podcast on January 8th 2019 to enjoy the holidays and spend time with family. For show notes and more information visit www.investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
193- What Happened? Amazon and Whole Foods (Part 2)
December 19, 2018 23:15 - 42 minutesIn this week’s podcast, we talk about the essence of investing we also talk about Canadian Cannabis stocks and how easy it is to get burned by bad management. For show notes and more info visit investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
192- What Happened? Amazon and Whole Foods
December 11, 2018 21:56 - 32 minutesThis week we analyze what has happened in the year since Amazon and Whole Foods merged. We made a few predictions about what would happen, and today we want to discuss them. For show notes and more information, visit investedpodcast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
191- From the Vault: Disrupted: America’s Grocery Industry
December 04, 2018 21:52 - 40 minutesThis week we discuss the Amazon & Whole Foods deal and the strength of having a brand Moat. For show notes and more information visit: www.investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
190- Circle of Competence
November 27, 2018 18:00 - 29 minutesIn this week’s episode, we’ll discuss the importance of the circle of competence and that you should be careful about investing in anything that you don’t have a great understanding of. We also talk about what you should avoid as an investor. For show notes and more info, visit ruleoneinvesting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
189- Following the Indexes
November 20, 2018 19:55 - 35 minutesIn this week’s episode, we discuss a few dirty truths about the financial services industry and why it’s impossible for financial advisors to grow your money as well as you can. We also talk about the fundamentals of Rule #1 Investing and why most financial advisors can’t do it. For show notes and more information visit www.investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
188- "The Why"
November 13, 2018 18:32 - 38 minutesThis week we discuss, “The Why”. “The Why” is the reason people invest in stocks as the best way to grow their wealth. We discuss investing as the only way a person can buy “compounding machines” that consistently make you money over time and beat inflation. For show notes and more information, visit www.investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
187- [Live Q&A] From the Rule #1 Investing Workshop
November 06, 2018 21:02 - 55 minutesWe filmed this special episode for our listeners, live from my Rule #1 Investing workshop recently in Peachtree City, GA! Tune in as we answer questions from workshop attendees and give you our candid perspective on everyone’s most pressing questions! For show notes and more information visit www.investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
186- Owner Earnings Fiat Chrysler (FCAU) – Part 2 of 2
October 30, 2018 23:01 - 29 minutesThis week we’re wrapping up Owner Earnings for Fiat Chrysler. Is this company on sale? We also talk about why you shouldn’t always trust what the analysts think of a company. For show notes and more info visit www.investedpodcast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
185- Owner Earnings Fiat Chrysler (FCAU) - Part 1 of 2
October 23, 2018 20:17 - 30 minutesIn this week's episode of InvestED, we talk about owner earnings when valuing a business. We take a look at Sears (SHLD) and how looking at owner earnings could have saved shareholders a lot of money. Then we take a look at Fiat Chrysler (FCAU) and try to understand the company by using owner earnings. For show notes and more information visit www.investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
184- Grand Canyon University (LOPE) CapEx
October 16, 2018 16:27 - 54 minutesThis week on InvestED we discuss how to research and find Capital Expenditures for a company. We talk about Grand Canyon University, talk about how to find a 10-K, and where to look for CapEx. Phil also shares his calls with investor relations departments. For show notes and more information visit www.investedpodcast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
183- Owner Earnings: Net Change: Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable
October 09, 2018 17:41 - 49 minutesThis week we dive deep into the next phase of our owner earnings calculations: Net Change: Accounts Receivable and Net Change: Accounts Payable. We will try to clear the air as to why this calculation is so important and why generally accepted accounting principles are to be guarded against. For show notes and more information visit: www.investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
182- Understanding Owner Earnings Net Income
October 02, 2018 14:56 - 36 minutesThis week we’ll dig deeper into last week’s topic of Owner Earnings. We will go over the formula we lay out in our book Invested. We will explain what to look for and why some numbers are not what we think by dispelling misconceptions about generally accepted accounting principles. For full show notes visit https://www.ruleoneinvesting.com/podcast/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
181- How to Calculate Owner Earnings
September 25, 2018 19:40 - 33 minutesThis week on InvestED we’ll address the long-awaited topic of owner earnings. Using our book Invested, we will break down how to calculate owner earnings so we can decide what price we should be paying for a company. In proper Invested-fashion, we’ll also be shooting down misconceptions about issues like generally accepted accounting principles. For full show notes visit https://www.ruleoneinvesting.com/podcast/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices