In this episode of Two Quants and a Financial Planner, we explore the timeless investing wisdom of Ben Carlson. We break down several crucial investing concepts, including why investors shouldn’t blindly follow billionaires’ market moves, the importance of finding an investment strategy you can stick with, and why the market rarely operates at extremes despite what headlines might suggest.
We examine why even successful professionals can struggle with overconfidence in investing, the challenges of benchmarking against the S&P 500, and why persistence of outperformance is so difficult to achieve. Through the discussion, we highlight how Ben’s straightforward approach to complex investing topics helps investors avoid common pitfalls and maintain realistic expectations.
Key Topics:
- Why following billionaire investors can be misleading
- The importance of appropriate benchmarking
- How to handle periods of underperformance
- Why market extremes are rarer than we think
- The challenge of overconfidence in investing Finding an investment strategy you can stick with
