Aug 12, 2013
My guest today is Mebane Faber, a co-founder and the Chief Investment Officer of Cambria Investment Management. Faber is the manager of Cambria’s ETFs and separate accounts. Mr. Faber is the host of The Meb Faber Show podcast and has authored numerous white papers and leather-bound books. He is a frequent speaker and writer on investment strategies and has been featured in Barron’s, The New York Times, and The New Yorker.
The topic is his book Shareholder Yield: A Better Approach to Dividend Investing.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- State of quant investing in Asia
- How asset allocation is like "bullets"
- The benefits of quantitative-style systems
- Protecting yourself against your own behavioral biases
- Connections between biology and trading
- Behavioral finance
- Keeping yourself from making irrational decisions
- Boom-bust cycles and bubbles
- Quant views on the efficient market theory and buy and hold
- Japanese markets compared to US markets
- "Cheap" and "expensive" countries and markets
- Asset class agnosticism
- Avoiding the big losses
- Investing based on dividends
- Momentum as a return factor
- Exit strategies
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