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031 | Future-Proof Your Portfolio: Strategies for Global Instability
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Are your investments prepared for the next global crisis? Tune in to learn how to build a resilient portfolio that can withstand the end of the world as we know it. Joining us is Matthew Pierce and together we dig into a topic that's both timely and crucial: preparing your investment portfolio for the end of the world... or at least uncertain times.
In this episode, we explore the general uneasiness stemming from global and political instability and how these factors influence our financial decisions. Matthew offers a deep dive into the importance of having a robust framework for your investments, focusing on the how and why behind your financial choices. These insights will arm you with the knowledge to make informed decisions and build a portfolio that's prepared for anything, as well as valuable advice to help you stay ahead in these unpredictable times.
Key Takeaways:
- Preparing for the End (or at Least Major Disruptions): Strategies to protect your investments against global upheavals.
- Defensive Portfolio Building: Constructing a resilient portfolio to withstand market volatility.
- Understanding the Price of Attention: Understanding how news and media use tactics to capture your attention and why it's essential to stay vigilant.
- Establishing Benchmarks: Setting clear metrics to evaluate investment performance.
- Long-Term Paybacks: The reality of potentially less-than-ideal short-term results when aiming for long-term investment success.
- Designing for Desired Outcomes: Tailoring your portfolio to achieve a higher likelihood of specific financial goals.
- Balancing Knowledge Levels: Being aware that even if we think we know something there are so many factors in play that we need to consider.
- Diversified Portfolio Benefits: The importance of diversification and recovery during recessions.
- Leveraging Historical Trends: Leveraging historical data to prepare for future market trends.
- Optimizing for Resilience: Strategies for making your portfolio resilient against downturns.
- Doomsday Scenarios: Addressing the potential decline of the USA as the global leader, global demographics and the impact of climate change.
- Emotional Decision-Making: How emotions can cloud financial judgment.
Episode Resources:
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness by Morgan Housel
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
Predictably irrational Dan Ariely
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Music by Cephas
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