Global investors are caught up in China’s real estate crisis. Evergrande, China’s second-largest real estate company, is in serious default with their debt. Paul and Ira talk about investing in countries like China, how advisors let their investors take on too much risk, and why advisors and investors who chase growing markets, companies, and products usually never get the returns they hope for.

Low interest rates are making investors bored of bonds. However, the real estate market is quite hot. Today, Paul and Jim discuss an article brought to them by an investor about the benefits of real estate investments in your portfolio. Listen along to hear Paul explain why real estate investments are fundamentally different from bonds, how they perform against other asset classes, and why PWI does not offer them to investors.

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Paul finds an article encouraging advisors to turn to alternative assets instead of bonds in their portfolios to boost performance. Listen along to hear a foundational mistake people make about bonds and why Nobel Prize-winning research does not support these claims about alternative assets. Later on the show, Paul explains how market prices might go up but market value might not.

Investors ask Paul why PWI doesn’t invest in funds from the biggest fund companies. Paul and Ira answer the question, talk about how two popular fund companies capture asset classes, the issue with offering actively managed funds, and how their highest-performing products aren’t what they seem. Later on the episode, Paul takes a look at the data that shows the true value of these popular funds.

People have gone to the Bible for thousands of years to gain wisdom, knowledge, and understanding about life’s most pressing issues. Paul spends some time answering the question: Does the Bible teach anything about investing? Listen along to hear a financial advisor’s perspective on what the Bible says about investing.