InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

By Phil Town & Danielle Town

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What's InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast about?

Phil 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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06.06.2023

Until very recently, a lot of talk about artificial intelligence conjured dystopian images of Skynet, the Matrix, and HAL-9000 instead of a browser window answering homework questions or rendering bizarre reproductions of famous artwork. However, the recent releases of some ...

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06.06.2023 421- Real AI with Nuno Neves Cordeiro Until very recently, a lot of talk about artificial intelligence conjured dystopian images of Skynet, the Matrix, and HAL-9000 instead of a browser window answering homework questions or rendering bizarre reproductions of famous artwork. However, the recent releases of some ...
05.30.2023 420- The Good, the Bard, and the Ugly In 2023, it seems like every other week has seen a new AI tool pop up and have its 15 minutes of fame. From image generation to chat functions and voice replication, the public eye has never been more fully ...
05.25.2023 419- $100 Bills: Berkshire Meeting part 3 As the shock waves dissipate following the 2023 Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting, they nevertheless continue to be felt as we come back for a third week of analysis on one of the investing world’s most significant yearly events. This year’s ...
05.17.2023 418- Berkshire Shareholder Meeting part 2 After last week’s episode scratched the surface of the recent Berkshire shareholder meeting’s Q&A session, we’re going back to the well of investing wisdom that is Buffett & Co. This year’s meeting brought a number of insights, both personal and ...
05.09.2023 417- Berkshire Shareholder Meeting With the 2023 edition of the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders’ meeting in the books, it’s time to review the takeaways from the event. In an era of heightened uncertainty for markets around the world, what can we glean from the ...
05.03.2023 416- Berkshire Info It's time again for the "Woodstock of Capitalism," aka the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting where Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger fill in their investors on the state of the company and its future prospects. The meeting always makes waves ...
04.25.2023 415- ChatGPT part 2 With financial advising services trying their best to convince you that they can set you up with the life of your dreams, how can the cold, emotionless AI bots compete with their human counterparts? The latest iterations of chat AI ...
04.18.2023 414- Separate the Wheat from the Chat Hey ChatGPT, what’s your deal and and why should investors care? The relatively young world of AI hold a huge amount of both potential, and also countless unknowns. What’s the utility of a tool with such a huge amount of ...
04.11.2023 413- Deal or No Deal? Once in a blue moon, you might find yourself in a peculiar situation with regards to your investing journey. During the course of your research, you find a company with an eye-catching price tag and little to no fanfare. Then ...
04.04.2023 412- The Power of Compounders Finding a company that can compound their investments over a long period is the white whale of the value investor. While this search is often challenging, finding these companies can lead to substantial long-term gains. With the gamification of investing ...
03.21.2023 411- Publicly Traded Banks What happens when banks have growth as their priority? With the current instability, what can the public vs private sector debate tell us about our financial institutions? When leadership is beholden more to shareholders than to their patrons, it can ...
03.14.2023 410- Silicon Valley Bank The recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank exposed some major cracks in the way that banks have been doing business, and the upheaval is sending shockwaves far beyond the tech sector. Unwise decisions from leadership compounded by market uncertainty and ...
03.07.2023 409- Hasta la Vista Outdoor For those of us whose minds tend to wander, the age of limitless new opportunities at our fingertips has been both a blessing and a curse. The ability to focus that attention is an equally vital tool that is essential ...
02.28.2023 408- Investing is Life How often are you inspired to invest when you come across a great idea or innovation in your day-to-day life? Could that new helpful device lead you to the next great company for your portfolio? With the sheer quantity of ...
02.21.2023 407- FROM THE VAULT: Speculating vs. Investing Before buying a company, Rule #1 Investors do a ton of research to ensure the company they are buying meets Charlie Munger’s 4 key principles: meaning, moat, management, and margin of safety. From blue chip companies to venture capital, the ...
02.15.2023 406- FROM THE VAULT: Bill Ackman’s Investing Checklist Part 3 William Albert Ackman is an American investor and hedge fund manager. He has a well-known 8-point investing checklist, which is straightforward and reflects the basic principles of Rule #1 Investing. That checklist includes only investing in simple and predictable businesses ...
02.07.2023 405- Free Solo When we take risks in life, the prospect of success is always tempered by the possibility of failure. What happens to a society when some of the consequences of failure go away? Preparation and practice can help us face our ...
02.01.2023 404- In The Moment After a couple of decades of dominating the internet, cracks have begun to appear in the once-unquestionable superiority of Google. With the advent of new technologies, can the tech giant adapt and compete with the products and companies currently defining ...
01.27.2023 403- FROM THE VAULT: The Role of Shorting in the Market “There’s nothing evil, per se, about selling things short. Short sellers—the situations in which there have been huge short interests very often—very often have been later revealed to be frauds or semi-frauds.” — Warren Buffett Short selling, or shorting, plays ...
01.17.2023 402- Managing Expectations Our ability to handle expectations, both from others and ourselves, plays a huge role in our success in life. If we don’t know our tendencies when faced with those expectations, how can we be prepared to succeed? Investors often deal ...
01.10.2023 401- No Resolutions New year, same InvestED! Our hosts check in for the first show of 2023 and reflect on how disparate paths can bring people to the same world of investing. What does it look like to find success with the message ...
12.20.2022 400- Celebrate! On this milestone episode of InvestED, Phil and Danielle celebrate 400* episodes and take a look at where the market might be headed in the new year. Having spent the past two weeks going over the All Weather Portfolio, are ...
12.13.2022 399- Four Buckets Part 2 As the podcast approaches episode 400, Phil and Danielle reflect on the past several years of talking investing together before returning to the previous episode’s topic of the All Weather Portfolio. What does it look like to put together a ...
12.06.2022 398- Four Buckets For many, investing is much more than a hobby or a profession–it’s a way of looking at the world and parsing new information. There are countless approaches to take towards investing your wealth, but for a certain segment of the ...
11.29.2022 397- China's Stormy Seas The world’s second largest economy has long posed a problem for investors. With the Communist Party embracing markets to spur development in recent decades, many investors have been puzzled by China, seeing many fail to take advantage of an unprecedented ...
11.22.2022 396- Timing Your Exits 396: Timing Your Exits There is no shortage of opinions about when to sell in the ever-changing world of investing, but those taking the Rule #1 approach know that buying a great business on sale is paramount for maximizing your ...
11.15.2022 395- Riding the Backwards Bike There are world-renowned institutions and individuals who have devoted themselves to understanding the ins and outs of investing. Yet despite all of the heavily-scrutinized studies and statistical analyses, we see investors who take an outside-the-box approach and yield impressive results. ...
11.08.2022 394 - Hold or Sell? Part 2 Wouldn’t it be nice if the market behaved in a predictable, rational way? Unfortunately for investors, that’s not the case, so having a proven strategy to time your moves is key to achieving long-term success with your portfolio. Getting in ...
11.02.2022 393- Timing Tee-Up On this abbreviated episode of InvestED, @danielletown takes the reins to catch us up on topics discussed in recent weeks and give us a glimpse into what’s ahead as we approach the holiday season. She also dips into the mailbag ...
10.25.2022 392- Hold or Sell? Given the current state of global markets, economic uncertainty can make it difficult to plan for the future. While the changing financial landscape might cause investors to fret, understanding the factors and policies that drive these changes can help you ...
10.18.2022 391- Head Start for Investing While the financial world can be a daunting topic to young people whose parents aren’t properly equipped to teach them about it. And when kids don't properly learn how to manage their finances, as adults, life becomes somewhat of a ...
10.11.2022 390- Turbulence For some people, looking at the bigger picture of investing is what draws them to invest in the first place. They see the possibility, get excited, and want to learn how they can be a part of the excitement and ...
10.05.2022 389- Stay Centered It’s easy to get sucked into the possibility with investing and become obsessed. But getting so depe in the weeds, you lose track fo the forest and end up doing way too much that ends up leading to you missing ...
09.27.2022 388 - What Matters While it’s important to live a life in which you can provide for yourself and your loved ones, it’s also important to do things that make you feel whole and happy. That’s why investing is so important. One of the ...
09.21.2022 387- Risk Averse What does it really mean to be risk-averse when it comes to investing? This week, Phil and Danielle return with a new episode of InvestED to discuss risk and how to decide if a company is dangerous enough to sink ...
09.14.2022 386 - FROM THE VAULT: Real Estate Investing If you think that because real estate lets you leverage your investment, then the rate of return is much higher than investing in a business, and is, therefore a better place for beginner investors to put their money, think again. ...
09.07.2022 385 - Lost Money It hurts to lose money – especially after you’ve done all the work you were supposed to do. But you’re human, and even if you follow Rule #1 investing strategies by the book, you will still run a risk. However, ...
08.31.2022 384 - From the Vault: Best Munger Quotes “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” — Charlie Munger Munger is the Vice Chairman of the world’s greatest compound interest ...
08.23.2022 383- Google's Regulatory Risk (Part 1) How do you get to the point where you like a company a lot, and want to invest, but in doing your homework, you end up coming up with convincing reasons not to buy it? This week on InvestED, Phil ...
08.17.2022 382- Investing on Vacation This week on InvestED, Phil and Danielle are taking a break from talking about Google’s finances to talk about a more prominent topic, especially as people wrap up vacations and breaks away from work: investing when you’re tired, busy, or ...
08.09.2022 381- What Happened to Google? As inflation takes off and the federal reserve raises interest rates, making a recession more likely, what happens to the value of high growth and FAANG companies? In this episode of InvestED, Phil and Danielle dig into what has and ...
08.08.2022 380- FAANGM Stocks After spending weeks discussing Netflix, Phil and Danielle dig into the other FAANGM Stocks: Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google (now Alphabet), and Microsoft. Specifically, Phil and Danielle dig into Google this week. Covering everything from YouTube and Ad ...
08.02.2022 379- Netflix Earnings After Netflix’s quarterly earnings meeting, the company’s value seems to have risen. During the meeting, Netflix talked about its free cash flow, explained how they expect it to grow in the future, what the future of the platform looks like, ...
07.19.2022 378- Netflix Questions After digging into the important details you need to know about investing in a company like Netflix, there were still some listener questions left unanswered. This week on InvestED, Danielle is getting to all of those questions to help provide ...
07.12.2022 377- Netflix Price In their final show on the investing question mark that is Netflix, Phil and Danielle use the entertainment and streaming company as a case study to help you understand how to handle investing in a company if you can’t figure ...
07.06.2022 376- Netflix (Part 3) Continuing their discussion on the biggest investment question mark that is Netflix, Phil and Danielle dig deeper into helping you figure out complex, and seemingly impossible to invest in companies. The Towns provide a refresh on investing basics, like what ...
06.29.2022 375- Netflix (Part 2) Continuing their discussion on the biggest investment question mark that is Netflix, Phil and Danielle dig deeper into helping you figure out complex, and seemingly impossible to invest in companies. While Netflix may be almost impossible to understand and wrap ...
06.21.2022 374- Netflix After a long-awaited couple of weeks, this week on InvestED, Phil and Danielle are digging into the big investing question mark: Netflix. On the surface, the technology and entertainment company seems to be doing well, however, there’s one big elephant ...
06.14.2022 373- How to Start How do you start? Where do you start? What do you look at first? If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions when beginning your investing journey, you’re going to want to tune in to this week’s episode of InvestED. Phil ...
06.07.2022 372- From the Vault: Warren Buffett's Inflation Principles In today’s episode, Danielle discussed words of wisdom on inflation shared from the letters of Warren Buffett. In the letters, you’ll learn Buffet’s warnings to other investors that we do not know what will happen with the stock market or ...

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