Retirement Talk Radio's Podcast

If you’re trying to build wealth, sharp market downturns can be your biggest enemy. But these downturns are not uncommon and we want you to be prepared to overcome these market dips. On today’s episode, esteemed money manager, Jay Pestrichelli joins us to discuss buy and hedge retirement planning. He’s the author of Buy and Hedge as well as the owner and co-founder of ZEGA Financial.  Over the long term the market usually performs well, yet with all the volatility we’ve seen throughout the start of 2022 many of us are getting nervous. Even before this year, Jay notes the S&P has had violent volatility that has evolved over several years. Looking at these turns in the market it really comes in 3-to-5-year waves. The most current starting in February of 2020. What does this mean for investors? It means that volatility comes in cycles and is something that we need to prepare for.  ZEGA and the Redefining Wealth process utilize hedging in a lot of portfolios that can bring nice returns as opposed to a traditi