Skin in the Game: Why Your Investments Should Match Your Convictions (Brian Stoffel)

About this episode

Brian Stoffel discusses how aligning investments with personal beliefs can lead to better financial outcomes.

What if the stocks you believe in the most are the ones you actually own? Brian Stoffel spent years as a teacher before stumbling into investing — and one experiment changed everything. After reading Nassim Taleb's Skin in the Game, he went back and coded 300 of his own articles into two buckets: companies he wrote about positively that he owned, and companies he wrote about positively that he didn't. The results were striking. The stocks he owned outperformed the market. The ones he didn't o...

People in this episode

Host: Chris Hill

Guest: Brian Stoffel

Topics covered

• investing
• personal finance
• stock market
• conviction
• performance analysis

Keywords

• investments
• stocks
• market performance
• Nassim Taleb
• Skin in the Game

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