Rebecca Hotsko chats with Larry Swedroe. In this episode, they discuss Larry’s book “The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need”, why passive investing and diversification is key to a “Winning Investing Strategy”, why active strategies such as active management, stock picking and market timing are “losing strategies”, the shocking percentage of stocks that actually outperform the market, do markets value stocks correctly, why Warren Buffett’s outperformance can be explained by factors, how investors can improve their long run returns through factor investing, the 5 rules factors must meet to invest in them, how long you have to hold these investments to earn the expected premium, why all factor ETFs are not created equal and which are best to invest in, and so much more! Larry Swedroe is head of financial and economic research office for Buckingham Wealth Partners, a Registered Investment Advisor firm in St. Louis, Mo. Previously, Larry was vice chairman of Prudential Home Mortgage. Larry holds an MBA in finance and investment from NYU, and a bachelor’s degree in finance from Baruch College. To help inform investors about the passive investment approach, he was among the first authors to publish a book that explained passive investing in layman’s terms — The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You'll Ever Need (1998 and 2005). He has also authored 18 more books. He also writes for AdvisorPerspectives.com, AlphaArchitect.com, and TheEvidenceBasedInvestor.com