The Party Always Ends: How to Build a Portfolio for the Morning After | Meb Faber

About this episode

Meb Faber discusses the changing landscape of investing and how to build a resilient portfolio in light of shifting market dynamics.

The party always ends — and Meb Faber, one of the most data-driven voices in global investing, says the evidence is now undeniable that the decade-long US equity dominance is giving way to something very different. SUMMARY On this episode of Raise Your Average, hosts Pierre Daillie and Mike Philbrick sit down with Meb Faber — co-founder and CIO of Cambria Investment Management, prolific researcher, and host of The Meb Faber Show — for a wide-ranging conversation about what investors and financial advisors must rethink as the rules of the game quietly change beneath their feet. With US equity concentration at historic extremes, inflation proving stickier than expected, and geopolitical disorder accelerating structural shifts already underway, Meb makes the case that the era of a US-heavy 60/40 portfolio solving everything is in the rearview mirror. He challenges the deeply ingrained recency bias that has left most North American investors dangerously underweight in international equities and real assets — and explains what the data actually says about where opportunity is emerging. The conversation moves from big-picture regime change into highly practical territory: how to build…

People in this episode

Hosts: Pierre Daillie, Mike Philbrick

Guest: Meb Faber

Topics covered

• portfolio management
• global investing
• US equity dominance
• international equities
• tax strategies
• inflation
• geopolitical disorder

Keywords

• portfolio construction
• equity concentration
• recency bias
• real assets
• tax alpha
• wealth management
• investment strategies

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cambria Investment Management, The Meb Faber Show

Places: United States

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