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Larry Swedroe has spent 30 years proving the market will almost always beat you — and in this episode, he explains why that's about to become even more true.
In this episode of Raise Your Average, hosts Pierre Daillie and Mike Philbrick sit down with legendary evidence-based investing author and outsourced CIO Larry Swedroe for a wide-ranging masterclass on where markets are heading and what investors must do to survive them. Swedroe breaks down how AI is accelerating market efficiency rather than unlocking alpha, why the 60/40 portfolio carries far more equity risk than most investors realize, and why true hyper-diversification — across private credit, reinsurance, return stacking, and long-short factor strategies — is the only credible response to a world where correlation assumptions break at exactly the wrong moment. He confronts the behavioral mistakes social media is making worse, challenges advisors to stress-test risk tolerance with real dollar numbers, and argues the future of wealth management belongs to those who master alternatives.
⏱ Chapters
00:00 — Cold Open: AI and the Adaptive Markets Hypothesis
02:00 — Welcome to Larry Swedroe
03:00 — Post-Retirement Life: Consulting, Writing, and Giving Back
09:00 — AI and Market Efficiency: Does Technology Create or Destroy Alpha?
11:00 — Factor Model History: CAPM, Fama-French, and Shrinking Active Alpha
14:00 — Warren Buffett's Disappearing Alpha
21:00 — The Danger of AI Data Mining and False Correlations
23:00 — What Makes a Factor Worth Owning: Persistent, Pervasive, Robust
28:00 — Leverage Aversion: When a Little Is Good and a Lot Is Dangerous
30:00 — Private Credit and the Case for Senior Secured Loans
31:00 — Return Stacking and Portable Alpha
34:00 — Hyper-Diversification: Why Your 60/40 Is Really 90/10 in Risk Terms
39:00 — The 40-Year Period Growth Stocks Underperformed Long Treasuries
40:00 — Reinsurance and AQR Style Premium: Self-Healing Assets and Impatience
45:00 — The Real Definition of Diversification: Something Is Always Hurting
47:00 — Good Advisors Are People Managers, Not Money Managers
54:00 — Stress-Testing Risk Tolerance with Real Dollar Numbers
56:00 — Monte Carlo and the True Cost of Avoiding Alternatives
59:00 — Trend Following: Clustered Returns and Why You Buy Insurance at a Cost
01:05:00 — Behavioral Mistakes in the Age of Social Media
01:07:00 — Information vs. Value-Relevant Information: Why Reddit Won't Make You Rich
01:11:00 — The Future of Advisory Practice: Wealth Management and the Next Decade
🔍 Keywords
Larry Swedroe, evidence-based investing, factor investing, market efficiency, AI and investing, adaptive markets hypothesis, 60/40 portfolio risk, hyper-diversification, return stacking, portable alpha, private credit, reinsurance investing, AQR style premium, trend following, CTA funds, managed futures, behavioral finance, investment mistakes, recency bias, Monte Carlo simulation, retirement planning, alternatives allocation, illiquidity premium, wealth management, outsourced CIO, Raise Your Average podcast, Pierre Daillie, Mike Philbrick, Fama French, Warren Buffett alpha, value investing, momentum investing, long short strategies, sequence of returns risk, tail risk
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