Wealth Independence Podcast
The Wealth Independence Podcast guides high-income tech professionals through proven strategies for building passive income and achieving true financial independence.
Hosts Dustin Bailey and Adam Penn share battle-tested frameworks, real-world case studies, and hard-won lessons from their years of experience in private markets and alternative investments. Each week, they break down complex investment concepts, analyze current market trends, and interview successful investors and industry experts.
Through a freedom-first approach that emphasizes passive income, smart diversification, and thorough due diligence, learn how to shorten your learning curve and avoid common pitfalls on their path to financial independence.
Whether you're looking to understand private placements, real estate fundamentals, or alternative investment opportunities, Wealth Independence delivers actionable insights that help busy professionals make informed investment decisions.
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Wealth Independence Podcast
v2.28 - Wall Street’s Hottest Trade Is Losing Money (On Purpose)
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The Wall Street Journal is calling a new kind of tax-loss harvesting the hottest trade on Wall Street – funds built to deliver index-like returns with a smaller tax bill. Dustin and Adam read the coverage and land on a simpler summary: tax-loss harvesting only works when you lose money.
They walk through the mechanics – sell the losers, realize the losses, offset the gains on your winners – and why fund managers are now assembling portfolios designed to produce losses on purpose, since a rising market makes losers hard to find.
Stock market tax-loss harvesting contrasts sharply with real estate and oil and gas. Depreciation is a paper loss: a deduction with no money actually leaving your account. It’s how investors can collect cash flow yet still take a sizable tax deduction.
If the stock market is your entire investing universe, tax-loss harvesting is a fair tool. But step outside it, and there are tax strategies that don’t require losing money first.
Episode Release Notes & Resources:
- [WSJ]: Stock Gains Without All the Taxes? How the Hottest Trade on Wall Street Works - https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/stock-gains-without-all-the-taxes-how-the-hottest-trade-on-wall-street-works-ed321611
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