In this weeks episode of The Market Call Show, Louis Llanes sits down with Dr. Wesley Gray about real world investing. After serving as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps, Dr. Gray earned an MBA and a PhD in finance from the University of Chicago where he studied under Nobel Prize Winner Eugene Fama. Next, Wes took an academic job in his wife’s hometown of Philadelphia and worked as a finance professor at Drexel University. Dr. Gray’s interest in bridging the research gap between academia and industry led him to found Alpha Architect, an asset management firm dedicated to an impact mission of empowering investors through education. He is a contributor to multiple industry publications and regularly speaks to professional investor groups across the country. Wes has published multiple academic papers and four books, including Embedded (Naval Institute Press, 2009), Quantitative Value (Wiley, 2012), DIY Financial Advisor (Wiley, 2015), and Quantitative Momentum (Wiley, 2016). Dr. Gray currently resides in the suburbs of Philadelphia with his wife and three children.
The information in his four books can help investors, including Embedded (Naval Institute Press, 2009), Quantitative Value (Wiley, 2012), DIY Financial Advisor (Wiley, 2015), and Quantitative Momentum (Wiley, 2016)
Alpha Architect: https://alphaarchitect.com/ ETF Architect: https://etfarchitect.com/
In this episode you'll hear:
- How the military experiences that Wes had translated into his entrepreneurial and finance endeavors today
- Why you need a "money doctor"
- Wes' philosophy on assessing risk tolerance and the perfect portfolio
- The Bucket System
- Education and Motivation
- Wes' path to Alpha Architect
- The quantitative approach
- Value vs. Momentum
- Wes' take on inflation today
- The Bitcoin trend
- The ETF business
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