Our mentor today is one of the foremost thinkers and practitioners in the financial planning space. Peter Mallouk joins us to dispel the myth that the stock market is like the stock market, that the bond market is still dangerous (a year later), that AI is coming for our jobs, that you'll find safety in a savings account, and that gold is a great investment. It's a dynamic discussion with the man who wrote a financial book with Tony Robbins a few years ago, who owns the Kansas City Royals baseball team, and who is one of the top financial planners in the country.
In our headline segment, we do something we often don't engage in: philosophy. But today, philosophical discussion meets behavioral finance (much more our strong suit), in a Wall Street Journal piece about passive investing and capitalism. Is passive investing killing the stock market, and then by extension, capitalism? While we probably won't solve the world's problems or "fix" the stock market, we will discuss the basics of passive investing (positives and negatives), the problem of (and also the advantages in) not knowing what's going on with the companies in which you've invested, and the importance of diversification, balanced portfolios, and avoiding recency bias.
Of course, Doug shares a trivia question fresh out of Scotland. He'll use an important marker of today's date in history (Robert the Bruce's birthday) to shine the light on one of the most iconic pieces of real estate in the world, Robert's castle.
We also help a Stacker who said, "I'd better call Saul...Sehy and OG!" He wonders about becoming a financial planner when you don't have a college degree. Is it more difficult to gain experience?
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