Patrick Boyle On Finance
This podcast is all about quantitative finance and financial history. Subscribe to hear about financial markets, derivatives, and how investors use quantitative tools from statistics and corporate finance theory. Included are interviews with some of the most interesting thinkers in finance. Occasional longer form financial documentaries, open up fascinating elements of financial markets history. Patrick Boyle is a quantitative hedge fund manager, a university professor, and a former investment banker. To contact Patrick visit http://onfinance.org Find Patrick on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickBoyleOnFinance DISCLAIMER:This podcast is not affiliated with any financial institution. The information provided is for entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Those seeking investment advice should seek out a registered professional in their home jurisdiction and confirm their credentials on your national regulator's website. Patrick Boyle is not responsible for any investment actions taken by viewers and his content should not be used as a basis for investment or other financial decisions.
Episodes
54 episodes
The Collapse of The Luxury Watch Market - Why Have Secondary Market Prices Fallen So Much?
Prices for the most in-demand luxury watches have been in freefall on the secondary market since March 2022 as a pandemic-era rally fizzled. Are luxury watches a good investment, how do watch prices perform in the long run?Patrick's ...
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Season 4
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Episode 40
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29:31
Crypto Has Bought The 2024 Election!
According to the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, almost half of all corporate money contributed to this year's US election campaigns has come from crypto backers and politicians are bending to their will with promises to reduce regulati...
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Season 4
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Episode 39
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23:33
Is Tony Robbins Right About Private Equity?
In a recent CNBC interview Tony Robbins extolled the virtues of investing in private equity, arguing that private equity provided high returns – with low risk. Is he right? Should everyone invest in Private Equity?
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Season 4
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Episode 38
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29:19
Is the EV Revolution Dead?
Automakers are hedging their bets on electric vehicles and stepping up their investment in hybrid cars as consumers’ growing disinterest in fully electric vehicles has forced the industry to shift gear.A combination of high EV depreciat...
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Season 4
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Episode 37
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24:54
Tech Bros Inventing Things That Already Exist
It seems like every day the tech industry comes out with a "brilliant new idea” that turns out to be merely a reinvention of a mundane product that already existed. Tech bros keep reinventing the bus, but they have also taken to reinventing the...
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Season 4
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Episode 36
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25:15
The Great British Bailout
The British government is closing in on a bailout of the Chinese owned British Steel in which taxpayers would inject £600 million pounds into the group.British Steel is one of only two manufacturers of “virgin steel” in the UK alongside...
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Season 4
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Episode 35
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26:53
When AI is Just Badly Paid Humans!
In recent years, a number of companies have been caught claiming to use artificial intelligence while in reality, outsourcing this work to humans. The SEC recently settled with two funds who were misleading investors about their use of the tech...
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Season 4
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Episode 34
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23:25
Adam Robinson - Strategy for Investing and for Life
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Season 4
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Episode 33
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1:35:46
America's Retirement Timebomb!
Over the next five years the largest cohort of the baby boomer generation will reach retirement age and while it is broadly assumed that they will have comfortable retirements, a recent analysis of their assets shows that more than half of this...
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Season 4
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Episode 32
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26:10
What's Behind Last Week's Stock Market Drama
This Monday was one of the worst days for global stock markets in years, Stocks in the US, Europe and Japan tanked on Friday and again on Monday before a partial rebound. Bond yields and foreign exchange rates swung around wildly too.Th...
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Season 4
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Episode 31
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25:32
Evergrande Wealth Management Products - A Ponzi Scheme?
In an interview with local media, an Evergrande financial adviser said the products were a type of “supply chain finance”. While the money from retail investors may in years past have gone to its suppliers, the Evergrande executives in Shenzhen...
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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9:48
Evergrande Crisis Intensifies
The liquidity crisis at Chinese property developer Evergrande shook global markets this morning with stocks falling in Asia, Europe and New York.The S&P 500 fell 2.1 per cent in afternoon trading, while the Nasdaq Composite slipped ...
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Season 1
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Episode 43
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9:26
Evergrande - China Faces a Potential Lehman Moment
The implosion of Lehman Brothers, 13 years ago this week, showed the world how the collapse of a single company can send shockwaves around the world. Echoes from that event are resounding today as a massive Chinese property developer ...
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Season 1
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Episode 42
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9:06
Investing In Collectibles - Are NFT's Digital Beanie Babies?
The Beanie Babies Bubble is a particularly entertaining story which highlights all the hallmarks of a mania. Mass delusion. Speculation. Out of control expectations. The herd mentality.Right now, it might appear that we are in another c...
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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15:34
The Difference Between Trading And Investing
In today's podcast Patrick discusses the famous Warren Buffett quote “calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor “is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.” from his 1991 letter to i...
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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13:16
Billionaires Who Lost Everything
According to Forbes Magazine there are 2,755 billionaires in the world today. The top five industries where they made their money are Finance, Technology, Manufacturing, Retail and Healthcare. It is rare to become a billionaire, but even ...
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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23:22
Do Central Bankers Care About Rising House Prices?
Why don’t central bankers care about rising asset prices?For most people their greatest expense is housing. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans spend almost 40% of their take home pay on shelter, this might lead yo...
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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16:36
Should Politicians Trade Stocks? Congressional Insider Trading
Insider trading, or the act of buying or selling investments based on nonpublic information, is against the law in the United States and in most countries. At its core, insider trading benefits well connected investors at the expense of the gen...
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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8:05
Sinner or Saint - ESG Investing vs. Vice Investing
ESG (or environmental, social and governance) investing is one of the hottest things in markets right now, with large fund managers competing to be seen to take ESG more seriously than the next. Setting aside any moral judgements, the com...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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11:04
Insider Trading on The Dark Web
Apostolos Trovias was recently arrested in Peru and charged by the SEC with perpetrating a fraudulent scheme to sell what he called "insider trading tips" on the Dark Web. According to the complaint, Trovias, using the online avatar "Th...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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8:14
Consumer Protections in Crypto Investing
Last week Janet Yellen called for rapid action to ensure there is an appropriate US regulatory framework in place for crypto-assets. A month ago the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said that banks’ exposures to crypto should carry the to...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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9:33
When Pubs Briefly Replaced Banks in Ireland
Today we are going to discuss the Irish Banking Strike of 1970 when all of the countries clearing banks closed for over six months, only to find themselves quickly replaced by local pubs. We will discuss if something like this could work again,...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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22:28
The First SPAC on The Moon!
SEC Charges Stable Road SPAC and Space Startup Momentus with Misleading Claims.The SEC announced on Tuesday that it charged blank-check company Stable Road Acquisition Corp (SRAC.O), its sponsor SRC-NI, space exploration company Momentu...
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Episode 32
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10:01
Should Companies Make Political Donations?
Companies across major sectors of the market are reassessing political donations in response to the January 6th storming of the U.S. Capitol, but it is too soon to know whether it leads to fundamental changes in the way money flows between poli...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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16:29
China cracks down on Didi days after IPO
DiDi is a Chinese Ride Hailing app that raised $4.4bn in its listing on the New York Stock exchange this Wednesday. This was the biggest Chinese listing in the US since Alibaba listed seven years ago. The stock initially rallied, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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