The Advisor's Fuel Podcast with Adam Koos

About The Advisor's Fuel Podcast with Adam Koos

The Advisor's Fuel Podcast with Adam Koos, where high performing Financial Planners and Wealth Advisors discover proven processes and actual strategies to elevate their client experience, grow their businesses faster and achieve unprecedented success. Brought to you Adrenaline Advisor Consulting at https://adrenalineadvisor.com/

Publisher

Adam Koos

Category

business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Jan 2025

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 29 episodes have a transcript.

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   13 Oct 2026

   Stop Chasing Performance: Meb Faber's Advice for Financial Advisors - Part 1

   Most advisors have a plan for the next client meeting. Far fewer have a written plan for what they'll do when the market drops 30% and the phones start ringing. On this episode of The Advisor's Fuel, Adam Koós sits down with Meb Faber, co-founder and CIO of Cambria Investment Management and host of The Meb Faber Show. Meb holds the CMT and CAIA designations and has spent more than two decades researching rules-based strategies like trend following, value, and tactical allocation. They work through the investing beliefs Meb thinks most pros get wrong: why stocks beating bonds can take decades, where the 10-month moving average idea came from, why dividends get misunderstood, what bonds and gold are actually for, and why an exit plan is worthless without a re-entry plan. Whether you run a solo practice, lead a growing RIA, or sit on your firm's investment committee, this one will sharpen how you build portfolios and how you talk to clients when things get rocky. Episode Timestamps 00:00 Why you have to be asset class agnostic 01:10 Meet Meb Faber 03:15 From the biotech bubble to quant investing 06:15 The belief almost everyone holds: stocks for the long run 09:20 Where the 10-month moving average idea came from 12:30 Power laws, bear markets, and why volatility explodes in downtrends 21:00 Missing the best days vs. missing the worst days 34:00 Is dividend investing overrated? 40:00 Bonds, T-bills, and the real safest asset 44:00 Gold and the case for owning a little of everything 49:30 The biggest portfolio mistake advisors make 54:15 The two things clients want to know in every correction 1:01:30 The most underrated bias: ignoring fees and taxes Key Takeaways 💡  Stocks beat bonds over time, but "over time" can mean decades. Clients want certainty on a timeline that markets don't honor, and that gap drives most bad decisions. 💡  Trend following is more than a century old, and Meb argues a market-cap-weighted index is itself a simple trend-following strategy. Price is the only variable in it. 💡  The famous "miss the 10 best days" stat tells half the story. Most of the best and worst days cluster in downtrends, when volatility is highest. 💡  A high dividend yield often means the price fell. Yield alone says nothing about quality. 💡  Chasing performance is still the biggest portfolio mistake Meb sees, from solo advisors all the way up to giant institutions. 💡  In every correction, clients want to know two things: am I going to be okay, and are you doing something about it. "It always comes back" is getting harder to sell. Key Quotes 🗣  "It's better to be Rip Van Winkle than Nostradamus when it comes to investing a lot of your money." - Meb Faber 🗣  "It's okay to have an exit, but you have to have the re-entry." - Meb Faber 🗣  "They wanna know A, am I going to be okay? And B, are you doing something about what's going on right now?" - Adam Koós Quotes are pulled from the transcript. Verify wording against the final audio. Connect with Meb Faber Cambria: https://www.cambriainvestments.com/ Blog: https://mebfaber.com/ X: https://x.com/MebFaber LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mebanefaber/ YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKvWzzrVUA_DSCoKXL6GU2w?sub_confirmation=1 Podcast: www.themebfabershow.com Connect with Adrenaline Advisor Facebook: https://facebook.com/adrenalineadvisorconsulting Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adrenaline.advisor Threads: https://www.threads.com/@adrenaline.advisor LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/adrenaline-advisor-consulting/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@adrenalineadvisor YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AdrenalineAdvisor Email: info@adrenalineadvisor.com Website: www.adrenalineadvisor.com Connect with Adam Koos: Adam Koos, CFP, CMT, CFTe, CEPA LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamkoos Website: https://www.adrenalineadvisor.com

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   22 Sept 2026

   The Planning Framework Behind Every High-Performing Advisor

   Adam Koos, CFP, CMT, CFTe, CEPA, shares a four-part planning framework to help advisors build actionable personal and business goals, transforming their own lives.

3. 

   25 Aug 2026

   Niche Positioning for Financial Advisors: How to Stop Chasing Prospects with Natalie Hales

   Host Adam Koós interviews Natalie Hales, an advisor positioning strategist, about clarifying your niche to attract ideal clients and stop chasing prospects.

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How Financial Advisors Can Prevent Burnout and Improve Team Performance

Published 10 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I get to manage. And that's a big difference. If you're questioning yourself as an advisor, how are you doing leading? Are you babysitting or are you managing? I'm going to explain the two. Managing is when you make sure others are doing their job. Babysitting is when you're doing the job for them, right? In managing, you're making sure they have the ability to do their job. Babysitting, you're literally sitting there looking at them going, all right, Adam, did you do this? Did you do this? Did you do this? Was working with a large firm, a big social media company, and trying to get a meeting with the senior vice president I was working with them, he was going to meet with Target. […]

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