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Audio: Chris Davis on Meb Faber Show — Equity Investing and Investor Behavior

Audio: Chris Davis on Meb Faber Show — Equity Investing and Investor Behavior

Chris Davis on why successful wealth-building is heavily determined by investor behavior, building financial literacy among your children, the danger of following market forecasts, areas of interest we are identifying

2:44Teaching investing principles and benefits of compounding to the next generation
11:30Future of financial literacy in the US
17:47Chris’s first investment
24:26Healthy investor behavior and its influence on wealth building
29:40Investor reaction to COVID-19, and placing this time in its proper perspective
36:49Financials in 2020
41:16The energy sector in 2020
50:47Futility of short-term predictions
58:36Chris’s global orientation
1:03:38Areas of interest in the future
1:09:05Most memorable investment

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