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Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we will answer two listener questions and discuss our thoughts on valuing companies: * Is it better to pick one or the other of ETFs, S&P; 500 or Total Index ...

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10.06.2022 IFB241: How to Start Valuing Companies Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we will answer two listener questions and discuss our thoughts on valuing companies: * Is it better to pick one or the other of ETFs, S&P; 500 or Total Index ...
10.03.2022 Jake Taylor Joins Us to Discuss Value Investing and the Importance of Journaling Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we chat with Jake Taylor, CEO of Farnam Street Investments and co-host of Value After Hours: * How did Jake get started in the investing world?* How does Jake think ...
09.29.2022 IFB240: What Not to Buy the Dip On Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we talk discuss what you should not buy the dip on in the markets: Avoiding expensive stocks Avoiding value traps *The potential of crypto and the minefield that exists in ...
09.26.2022 Brad Thomas Joins Us to Discuss REITs Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we talk to Brad Thomas, one of the leading REIT analysts on Seeking Alpha. How Brad started in real estate, and what is a REIT? How REITs can provide advantages ...
09.22.2022 IFB239: Why Time in the Market is More Important than Timing the Market Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we answer two plus great questions: Explaining Fibonacci retracements and why we don’t use charting as an investing strategy The drawbacks to trying to time the market and holding cash ...
09.15.2022 IFB238: Using Your 401k Match to It’s Fullest, and What is the Best 401k Allocation? Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we answer three great listener questions: How to get started as a young investor under 18 Should I invest totally in my 401k with 100% stocks, or use a different ...
09.12.2022 Brian Feroldi Discusses the Importance of Quality and Valuation Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we chat with Brian Feroldi about finding quality companies and the importance of valuation: What he sees in the markets today How to profit from investments in a way that ...
09.08.2022 IFB237: The Impact of Proxy Voting and Investing in Money Losing Companies Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we answer some great listener questions: How do we feel about investing in companies with ESG concerns? What are our thoughts of investing in precious metals or metals? *How does ...
09.05.2022 Discussing Dividends with DivGro, A Dividend Growth Investor Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we chat with Ferdi from the DivGro: How did he get started in dividend investing, and why dividend growth investing? How does he finds companies to buy, and what his ...
09.01.2022 Bird’s Eye View of IBM Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we take a bird’s eye view of IBM: We talk about the top line or revenue growth of the company Next, we discuss the operating margins of IBM *Andrew and ...
08.29.2022 Nick Maggiulli Joins Us to Talk About Just Keep Buying Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we chat with Nick Maggiulli, author Of Dollars and Data and the new book, Just Keep Buying: *What drew him to dollars and data, and why did he start his ...
08.25.2022 IFB236: Differences Between ETFs and Mutual Funds, and Investing in Companies Beyond Their Fair Value Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we answer three great listener questions: The differences between investing in mutual funds and ETFs Why we advocate for investing in individual stocks *How to deal with dollar cost averaging ...
08.22.2022 David Stein from Money For the Rest of Us Podcast Discusses Closed-End Funds and Commodities Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we chat with David Stein of Money for the Rest of Us podcast, and the book of the same name: David explains Closed-End Funds to us Differences between open and ...
08.18.2022 IFB235: Static Dividend Payers and Risk-Free Rates in Valuation Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: What is an average investor or beginner? What are our thoughts on Robo-advisors? Thoughts on companies that pay a static dividend? How do you approach the risk-free rates ...
08.15.2022 Vitaliy Katsenelson Discusses Having Soul in the Game and the Importance of Habits Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we chat with Vitaliy Katsenelson about his new book, Soul in the Game: The Art of a Meaningful Life. *We ask Vitaliy if he is an investor who writes or ...
08.11.2022 Talking About the Importance of KPIs with Braden Dennis of Stratosphere Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we chat with Braden Dennis of Stratosphere.io: Braden talks about what excites him in the markets currently, including focusing on KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). The ability to get started and ...
08.04.2022 Bird’s Eye View of Walmart Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: A Bird’s Eye view of Walmart Starting to learn the company via the 10-k; if you understand the business, move on to the rest of the 10-k. *Focus ...
07.28.2022 IFB234: Deciding to Dollar Cost Average into New Ideas or Current Portfolio Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: Whole life insurance and how they work as a general rule How much should you have for an emergency fund before starting to invest *How to decide on ...
07.21.2022 Talking Real Estate and 401k with Katie Gatti from Money with Katie Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we chat with Katie Gatti from the Money with Katie podcast and blog. *The advice that everyone should buy a house is completely wrong, and how she thinks about housing, ...
07.14.2022 Creating Retirement Security with James Conole Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss retirement planning with James Canole of Root Financial Partners. Some common misconceptions about retirement planning. How to plan for having security in your retirement. *How to develop safety ...
07.07.2022 IFB233: Analyzing Debt and Cash Flow using Weber Grill’s Financials Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss the finer points of debt and cash flow analysis using Weber Grill’s financials. Breaking Down Weber Grills after their recent IPO Analyzing the debt of Weber Grill and ...
06.30.2022 The Importance of Moats with Mark Lamonica of Morningstar Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we chat with Mark Lamonica, Head of Individual Research at Morningstar. How to invest in today’s topsy-turvy markets The importance of moats and how to measure them *The highs and ...
06.23.2022 IFB232: How to Calculate Price to Sales Ratio, Plus Interpreting the Ratio Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: How do I know if I should max out my Roth IRA? Our thoughts on the defense sector and investing in companies like Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Lockheed ...
06.16.2022 IFB231: Back to the Basics (UPDATED) Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: The importance of compounding and the impact it can have on your returns How to setup dollar cost averaging and to start the regular habit of continually investing ...
06.09.2022 Brian Feroldi Talks About Why the Stock Market Always Goes Up Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we chat with: Brian Feroldi, author of “Why Does the Stock Market Go Up?” We talk about the lack of financial education and ways to overcome those challenges. *We discuss ...
06.02.2022 IFB230: How to Spot and Avoid Value Traps Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: How to spot Value Traps and some of the characteristics of companies that might become a value trap. Companies who become value traps because they are cheap, and ...
05.26.2022 IFB229: How to Deal With Buying and Holding When Our Theory Changes?? Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we welcome: Tracking your profits and losses in your brokerage accounts and the best way to follow those changes. What to do when stocks fall, and we are supposed to ...
05.19.2022 IFB228: How to Avoid Dividend Traps + ESPP Plans Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we welcome: How do ESPP plans work, and what kinds of returns can you expect from those types of employee stock purchase plans. How to avoid dividend traps A quick ...
05.12.2022 Eric Balchunas on Fiduciaries, Jack Bogle, and all things ETFs Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we welcome: Eric Balchunas, the Senior ETF analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, recently published a fantastic book, The Bogle Effect. Eric and Andrew discuss what a fiduciary means and how they ...
05.05.2022 IFB227: How to Keep Your Spirits Up When the Market is Falling Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: How to stay invested in the markets, even during downtimes, without getting discouraged How to manage our emotions and control our emotions when we invest *The impact of ...
04.28.2022 Discussing All Things REITs with Chris Volk, former CEO of Store Capital Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: Public REITs with Chris Volk, former CEO of two public REITs, including Store Capital (STOR) What trends appeal to him in the commercial real estate space, and why ...
04.21.2022 IFB226: Unlocking the Different P/E Ratios, Cap-Weighted vs Equal Weighted Indexes, and the Business Development Sector Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: What are the differences between Non-GAAP P/Es, forward P/Es, and trailing P/E ratios? The differences between equal-weighted and cap-weighted indexes *Exploring the Business Development Industry with shallow looks ...
04.14.2022 IFB225: Understanding the Different Business Models and Recurring Revenue, Plus A Brief Look at the Retail Furniture Sector Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: Thoughts on The Dhando Investor by Mohnish Pabrai A brief overview of Ethan Allen and the retail furniture industry *What are your thoughts on Finviz.com and the reliability ...
04.07.2022 IFB224: What Happens to Your Shares in the Event of Big Changes, CEO Leaves, Acquisitions, or Other News? Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: What happens to your company’s shares in the event of a big change, for example, a CEO change, acquisition, or bad news? Why do we own shares of ...
03.31.2022 IFB223: Investing Close to Retirement and REITs 101 Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: How to think about investing at an older age, 63, for example Defining REITs, and a REIT 101 *How to analyze REITs and some of the ups and ...
03.24.2022 Learning to Invest with Maj Soueidan of GeoInvesting Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: How to start investing with Maj Soueidan of GeoInvesting The similarities between learning to play guitar and learning investing start early, put skin in the game, and learn ...
03.17.2022 IFB222: Dollar Cost Averaging – What It Is And To Apply It, Plus Analyzing High Debt to Equity Companies Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: Defining DCA (dollar-cost averaging) and how to apply the strategy best both up and down How do you decide which companies to add more money to in your ...
03.10.2022 IFB221: Who Are Some of the Best Businesses in the Market? Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: Nominees for what Andrew and I think are some of the best businesses in the market today We discuss from a high-level view what makes them appealing and ...
03.03.2022 Understanding the Market Cycles with Mike Singleton of Invictus Research Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: We discuss investing around the market cycles with Mike Singleton, senior research analyst and founder of Invictus Research. We talk through the different market cycles and what to ...
02.24.2022 IFB220: Dividend Reinvestment Mechanics and Profiting from the Activision/Microsoft Merger Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: We discuss the mechanics of reinvesting dividends and their impact on your long-term returns Talk through the idea of investing in specialty ETFs, particularly the new ETF from ...
02.17.2022 Intro to Bitcoin with Simon Belanger of the Canadian Investor Podcast Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: We discuss crypto and the backstory and how to handle it with Simon Belanger of the Canadian Investor Podcast. How easy it is to buy Crypto today, compared ...
02.10.2022 How to Deal with Market Volatility with Braden Dennis Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: We discuss some of the recent market volatility and how to handle it with Braden Dennis of the Canadian Investor Podcast. Following the business results of a company, ...
02.03.2022 IFB219: How a Elevated or Rising Stock Price Helps a Company Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: *How does the price of a company going up helps a company, and what kind of impact higher shareholder equity has on the long-term potential of a company ...
01.27.2022 IFB218: How to Get Started Investing When the Market Crashes Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: How to deal with getting started investing with the possibility of a stock market downturn, along with using dollar-cost averaging to help balance your investments. How to invest ...
01.20.2022 IFB217: Investing in Carbon Credits and Useful Metrics for Beginners Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: What kinds of stocks or investments can you put in a Roth IRA? How does investing in carbon credits or green investments work? *What kind of metrics should ...
01.13.2022 IFB216: How to Find Beaten Down or Out of Favor Companies to Analyze? Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: How to find good, profitable companies that we can invest in for the longer term? How to use Malcolm Gladwell’s Ten Thousand Hours idea to learn more about ...
01.06.2022 William Green on Living a Life with Simplicity, Avoiding Complexity, and Eliminating Stupidity Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: All things investing, life, and philosophy with William Green, author of the fantastic Richer, Wiser, Happier William recently gave a wonderful Ted Talk, in which he discussed the ...
12.30.2021 IFB215: ETFs and Stock Price Impacts, Plus Stock Spinoffs Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: Diving deeper into ETF construction, and how they match the markets they mimic Does the movement of individual stocks affect the overall ETF? *How spinoffs work, and some ...
12.23.2021 Getting Started in the Markets Early with Shamus Madan of MBIT Podcast Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: Getting started in the markets with Shamus Madan of MBIT podcast We discuss how to learn more about companies and different research tools to help you grow your ...
12.16.2021 IFB214: Shorting – How to Handle When Your Company is Shorted, And What To Do Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: What shorting a stock is, and how investors use it to earn returns How to determine whether your company has a big short position *What to do if ...

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10.06.2022 IFB241: How to Start Valuing Companies Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we will answer two listener questions and discuss our thoughts on valuing companies: * Is it better to pick one or the other of ETFs, S&P; 500 or Total Index ...
10.03.2022 Jake Taylor Joins Us to Discuss Value Investing and the Importance of Journaling Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we chat with Jake Taylor, CEO of Farnam Street Investments and co-host of Value After Hours: * How did Jake get started in the investing world?* How does Jake think ...
09.29.2022 IFB240: What Not to Buy the Dip On Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we talk discuss what you should not buy the dip on in the markets: Avoiding expensive stocks Avoiding value traps *The potential of crypto and the minefield that exists in ...
09.26.2022 Brad Thomas Joins Us to Discuss REITs Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we talk to Brad Thomas, one of the leading REIT analysts on Seeking Alpha. How Brad started in real estate, and what is a REIT? How REITs can provide advantages ...
09.22.2022 IFB239: Why Time in the Market is More Important than Timing the Market Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we answer two plus great questions: Explaining Fibonacci retracements and why we don’t use charting as an investing strategy The drawbacks to trying to time the market and holding cash ...
09.15.2022 IFB238: Using Your 401k Match to It’s Fullest, and What is the Best 401k Allocation? Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we answer three great listener questions: How to get started as a young investor under 18 Should I invest totally in my 401k with 100% stocks, or use a different ...
09.12.2022 Brian Feroldi Discusses the Importance of Quality and Valuation Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we chat with Brian Feroldi about finding quality companies and the importance of valuation: What he sees in the markets today How to profit from investments in a way that ...
09.08.2022 IFB237: The Impact of Proxy Voting and Investing in Money Losing Companies Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we answer some great listener questions: How do we feel about investing in companies with ESG concerns? What are our thoughts of investing in precious metals or metals? *How does ...
09.05.2022 Discussing Dividends with DivGro, A Dividend Growth Investor Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we chat with Ferdi from the DivGro: How did he get started in dividend investing, and why dividend growth investing? How does he finds companies to buy, and what his ...
09.01.2022 Bird’s Eye View of IBM Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we take a bird’s eye view of IBM: We talk about the top line or revenue growth of the company Next, we discuss the operating margins of IBM *Andrew and ...
08.29.2022 Nick Maggiulli Joins Us to Talk About Just Keep Buying Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we chat with Nick Maggiulli, author Of Dollars and Data and the new book, Just Keep Buying: *What drew him to dollars and data, and why did he start his ...
08.25.2022 IFB236: Differences Between ETFs and Mutual Funds, and Investing in Companies Beyond Their Fair Value Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we answer three great listener questions: The differences between investing in mutual funds and ETFs Why we advocate for investing in individual stocks *How to deal with dollar cost averaging ...
08.22.2022 David Stein from Money For the Rest of Us Podcast Discusses Closed-End Funds and Commodities Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we chat with David Stein of Money for the Rest of Us podcast, and the book of the same name: David explains Closed-End Funds to us Differences between open and ...
08.18.2022 IFB235: Static Dividend Payers and Risk-Free Rates in Valuation Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: What is an average investor or beginner? What are our thoughts on Robo-advisors? Thoughts on companies that pay a static dividend? How do you approach the risk-free rates ...
08.15.2022 Vitaliy Katsenelson Discusses Having Soul in the Game and the Importance of Habits Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we chat with Vitaliy Katsenelson about his new book, Soul in the Game: The Art of a Meaningful Life. *We ask Vitaliy if he is an investor who writes or ...
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08.04.2022 Bird’s Eye View of Walmart Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: A Bird’s Eye view of Walmart Starting to learn the company via the 10-k; if you understand the business, move on to the rest of the 10-k. *Focus ...
07.28.2022 IFB234: Deciding to Dollar Cost Average into New Ideas or Current Portfolio Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: Whole life insurance and how they work as a general rule How much should you have for an emergency fund before starting to invest *How to decide on ...
07.21.2022 Talking Real Estate and 401k with Katie Gatti from Money with Katie Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we chat with Katie Gatti from the Money with Katie podcast and blog. *The advice that everyone should buy a house is completely wrong, and how she thinks about housing, ...
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06.16.2022 IFB231: Back to the Basics (UPDATED) Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: The importance of compounding and the impact it can have on your returns How to setup dollar cost averaging and to start the regular habit of continually investing ...
06.09.2022 Brian Feroldi Talks About Why the Stock Market Always Goes Up Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we chat with: Brian Feroldi, author of “Why Does the Stock Market Go Up?” We talk about the lack of financial education and ways to overcome those challenges. *We discuss ...
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05.26.2022 IFB229: How to Deal With Buying and Holding When Our Theory Changes?? Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we welcome: Tracking your profits and losses in your brokerage accounts and the best way to follow those changes. What to do when stocks fall, and we are supposed to ...
05.19.2022 IFB228: How to Avoid Dividend Traps + ESPP Plans Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we welcome: How do ESPP plans work, and what kinds of returns can you expect from those types of employee stock purchase plans. How to avoid dividend traps A quick ...
05.12.2022 Eric Balchunas on Fiduciaries, Jack Bogle, and all things ETFs Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we welcome: Eric Balchunas, the Senior ETF analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, recently published a fantastic book, The Bogle Effect. Eric and Andrew discuss what a fiduciary means and how they ...
05.05.2022 IFB227: How to Keep Your Spirits Up When the Market is Falling Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: How to stay invested in the markets, even during downtimes, without getting discouraged How to manage our emotions and control our emotions when we invest *The impact of ...
04.28.2022 Discussing All Things REITs with Chris Volk, former CEO of Store Capital Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: Public REITs with Chris Volk, former CEO of two public REITs, including Store Capital (STOR) What trends appeal to him in the commercial real estate space, and why ...
04.21.2022 IFB226: Unlocking the Different P/E Ratios, Cap-Weighted vs Equal Weighted Indexes, and the Business Development Sector Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: What are the differences between Non-GAAP P/Es, forward P/Es, and trailing P/E ratios? The differences between equal-weighted and cap-weighted indexes *Exploring the Business Development Industry with shallow looks ...
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04.07.2022 IFB224: What Happens to Your Shares in the Event of Big Changes, CEO Leaves, Acquisitions, or Other News? Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: What happens to your company’s shares in the event of a big change, for example, a CEO change, acquisition, or bad news? Why do we own shares of ...
03.31.2022 IFB223: Investing Close to Retirement and REITs 101 Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: How to think about investing at an older age, 63, for example Defining REITs, and a REIT 101 *How to analyze REITs and some of the ups and ...
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03.10.2022 IFB221: Who Are Some of the Best Businesses in the Market? Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: Nominees for what Andrew and I think are some of the best businesses in the market today We discuss from a high-level view what makes them appealing and ...
03.03.2022 Understanding the Market Cycles with Mike Singleton of Invictus Research Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: We discuss investing around the market cycles with Mike Singleton, senior research analyst and founder of Invictus Research. We talk through the different market cycles and what to ...
02.24.2022 IFB220: Dividend Reinvestment Mechanics and Profiting from the Activision/Microsoft Merger Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: We discuss the mechanics of reinvesting dividends and their impact on your long-term returns Talk through the idea of investing in specialty ETFs, particularly the new ETF from ...
02.17.2022 Intro to Bitcoin with Simon Belanger of the Canadian Investor Podcast Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: We discuss crypto and the backstory and how to handle it with Simon Belanger of the Canadian Investor Podcast. How easy it is to buy Crypto today, compared ...
02.10.2022 How to Deal with Market Volatility with Braden Dennis Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: We discuss some of the recent market volatility and how to handle it with Braden Dennis of the Canadian Investor Podcast. Following the business results of a company, ...
02.03.2022 IFB219: How a Elevated or Rising Stock Price Helps a Company Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: *How does the price of a company going up helps a company, and what kind of impact higher shareholder equity has on the long-term potential of a company ...
01.27.2022 IFB218: How to Get Started Investing When the Market Crashes Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: How to deal with getting started investing with the possibility of a stock market downturn, along with using dollar-cost averaging to help balance your investments. How to invest ...
01.20.2022 IFB217: Investing in Carbon Credits and Useful Metrics for Beginners Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: What kinds of stocks or investments can you put in a Roth IRA? How does investing in carbon credits or green investments work? *What kind of metrics should ...
01.13.2022 IFB216: How to Find Beaten Down or Out of Favor Companies to Analyze? Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: How to find good, profitable companies that we can invest in for the longer term? How to use Malcolm Gladwell’s Ten Thousand Hours idea to learn more about ...
01.06.2022 William Green on Living a Life with Simplicity, Avoiding Complexity, and Eliminating Stupidity Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: All things investing, life, and philosophy with William Green, author of the fantastic Richer, Wiser, Happier William recently gave a wonderful Ted Talk, in which he discussed the ...
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12.23.2021 Getting Started in the Markets Early with Shamus Madan of MBIT Podcast Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: Getting started in the markets with Shamus Madan of MBIT podcast We discuss how to learn more about companies and different research tools to help you grow your ...
12.16.2021 IFB214: Shorting – How to Handle When Your Company is Shorted, And What To Do Welcome to the Investing for Beginners podcast. In today’s show, we discuss: What shorting a stock is, and how investors use it to earn returns How to determine whether your company has a big short position *What to do if ...

The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom

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The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom episodes:

IFB241: How to Start Valuing Companies

Jake Taylor Joins Us to Discuss Value Investing and the Importance of Journaling

IFB240: What Not to Buy the Dip On

Brad Thomas Joins Us to Discuss REITs

IFB239: Why Time in the Market is More Important than Timing the Market

IFB238: Using Your 401k Match to It’s Fullest, and What is the Best 401k Allocation?

Brian Feroldi Discusses the Importance of Quality and Valuation

IFB237: The Impact of Proxy Voting and Investing in Money Losing Companies

Discussing Dividends with DivGro, A Dividend Growth Investor

Bird’s Eye View of IBM

Nick Maggiulli Joins Us to Talk About Just Keep Buying

IFB236: Differences Between ETFs and Mutual Funds, and Investing in Companies Beyond Their Fair Value

David Stein from Money For the Rest of Us Podcast Discusses Closed-End Funds and Commodities

IFB235: Static Dividend Payers and Risk-Free Rates in Valuation

Vitaliy Katsenelson Discusses Having Soul in the Game and the Importance of Habits

Talking About the Importance of KPIs with Braden Dennis of Stratosphere

Bird’s Eye View of Walmart

IFB234: Deciding to Dollar Cost Average into New Ideas or Current Portfolio

Talking Real Estate and 401k with Katie Gatti from Money with Katie

Creating Retirement Security with James Conole

IFB233: Analyzing Debt and Cash Flow using Weber Grill’s Financials

The Importance of Moats with Mark Lamonica of Morningstar

IFB232: How to Calculate Price to Sales Ratio, Plus Interpreting the Ratio

IFB231: Back to the Basics (UPDATED)

Brian Feroldi Talks About Why the Stock Market Always Goes Up

IFB230: How to Spot and Avoid Value Traps

IFB229: How to Deal With Buying and Holding When Our Theory Changes??

IFB228: How to Avoid Dividend Traps + ESPP Plans

Eric Balchunas on Fiduciaries, Jack Bogle, and all things ETFs

IFB227: How to Keep Your Spirits Up When the Market is Falling

Discussing All Things REITs with Chris Volk, former CEO of Store Capital

IFB226: Unlocking the Different P/E Ratios, Cap-Weighted vs Equal Weighted Indexes, and the Business Development Sector

IFB225: Understanding the Different Business Models and Recurring Revenue, Plus A Brief Look at the Retail Furniture Sector

IFB224: What Happens to Your Shares in the Event of Big Changes, CEO Leaves, Acquisitions, or Other News?

IFB223: Investing Close to Retirement and REITs 101

Learning to Invest with Maj Soueidan of GeoInvesting

IFB222: Dollar Cost Averaging – What It Is And To Apply It, Plus Analyzing High Debt to Equity Companies

IFB221: Who Are Some of the Best Businesses in the Market?

Understanding the Market Cycles with Mike Singleton of Invictus Research

IFB220: Dividend Reinvestment Mechanics and Profiting from the Activision/Microsoft Merger

Intro to Bitcoin with Simon Belanger of the Canadian Investor Podcast

How to Deal with Market Volatility with Braden Dennis

IFB219: How a Elevated or Rising Stock Price Helps a Company

IFB218: How to Get Started Investing When the Market Crashes

IFB217: Investing in Carbon Credits and Useful Metrics for Beginners

IFB216: How to Find Beaten Down or Out of Favor Companies to Analyze?

William Green on Living a Life with Simplicity, Avoiding Complexity, and Eliminating Stupidity

IFB215: ETFs and Stock Price Impacts, Plus Stock Spinoffs

Getting Started in the Markets Early with Shamus Madan of MBIT Podcast

IFB214: Shorting – How to Handle When Your Company is Shorted, And What To Do

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