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        • A Complete Guide to Investing in Gold
        • A Complete Guide To Investing In Convertible Bonds
        • Investing in Bitcoin, Oil, and Volatility ETFs
        • Carbon Investing and its Effect on Climate Change
        • Farmland Investing
        • The Opportunity and Risk of Frontier Markets
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        • A Complete Guide to Investment Vehicles
        • How to Invest in Closed-End Funds
        • What Are SPACs and Should You Invest in Them?
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        • A Complete Guide to Understanding and Protecting Against Inflation
        • Why You Should Rebalance Your Portfolio
        • What Is Risk vs Uncertainty?
        • Tail Events and Tail Risk
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Understand what is driving current financial markets and economic trends, and how to position your portfolio for current risks and opportunities. Plus, we will send you ongoing investment commentary in our Insider’s Guide email newsletter.

Topics Include:

  • The notable rise in long-term U.S. interest rates to their highest level since 2006. I explain what’s driving the change and why interest rates could climb higher. 
  • Focus topic: why non-investment-grade bonds have become less risky, and what it means for expected returns over the next decade.
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By An Institutional Investor Who Managed Billions

Money For the Rest of Us author David Stein. Portrait by photographer Bret Stein
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I’m David Stein.

I write and speak on money, investing, and the economy, sharing my own words and insights, not AI’s.

I spent nine years as Chief Investment Strategist and Chief Portfolio Strategist at FEG Investment Advisors, a $15 billion institutional advisory firm where I advised and managed investments for endowments, foundations, and high-net-worth families.

For the past 12 years, I have done the same work in public through the Money for the Rest of Us podcast (over 25 million downloads), a McGraw-Hill book, and a membership community that has helped thousands of investors

I’ve strategized and invested through the Asian financial crisis, the dot-com bubble, the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession, the 2020s’ COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent market volatility, and every other economic moment that mattered between 1995 and today. The work you’ll see in Plus Membership is the same work I did for institutional clients, now built for serious individuals.

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