Now Know This - Investments, Economics, Behavior

The efficient market hypothesis is a hypothesis that states that share prices reflect all information and consistent market outperformance is virtually impossible. Dr. Eugene Fama, is the father of this theory and in today's podcast we take a deep dive explaining everything you need to know about it.

Today we are talking about real estate. If you are at all interested in learning more about real estate investing you will definitely find todays conversation interesting. Our guest expert today is Adam Allen. Adam is a managing principal and founder of Marble Capital, LP a multimillion-dollar real estate private equity firm based in Houston, TX.

In this episode we will cover everything you need to know about all the different types of fees and costs the investment industry charges. Understating these fees and costs is crucial to your longterm investment success.

Today we are going to talk about the Texas energy grid. Last week the grid came very close to a complete meltdown that could have made Texas go dark for months. An unprecedented winter storm hit the state so hard that many power producers from Natural Gas to Nuclear and wind were brought to their knees. With us to help explain what happened, why it happened, and what can be done so this does not happen again are Nick Altman and Peter Selber. Nick and Peter are the founders of Infinity Power P...

If you are an entrepreneur and at all interested in international business and how to evaluate risks more efficiently then you will certainly find todays podcast super informative. We are going to take a deeper dive into the types of risks investors take by hearing the story behind two successful entrepreneurial brothers, Mohammed and Subhi Khudairi. Mohammed and Subhi, together with their father Aziz, started Khudari Group in 2004 and have since grown the company from a small office in Houst...

Today we are going to be talking about the recent news involving GameStop and a few other companies that have recently skyrocketed in the stock market.

If you are at all interested in learning how to create optimal investment portfolios to achieve your long-term goals you are definitely going to want to listen to our podcast about the two main types of risks investors take: idiosyncratic and systematic.

Today we’ll be talking about ESG Investing which stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. ESG has gained a lot of traction in the investment world lately and is often referred to as sustainable investing. The idea here is that ESG investors look for companies that not only seek great cash flows or EBITA numbers but also positive returns and long-term impact on society and the environment. Investors are starting to demand that companies try and seek profitability financially and moral...

In this episode, we summarize a great new book that came out in 2020 called The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel. The book takes a deep dive into exploring how we behave with money. "Doing Well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people". - Book summary of The Psychology of Money.

Understanding whether your investment outcomes are attributable to luck or skill is extremely difficult to disentangle which makes it virtually impossible to identify a skilled investor before they become skillful. Lots of research has been done on this topic and I am very excited to have the author of those published academic papers with us today. Dr. Alan Crane is a Professor of Finance at Rice University’s Jones School of Business. He has degrees in economics, finance, and accounting...