Bulletproof Personal Finance: Expert Asset Allocation (Udemy.com)
How to Build an Asset Portfolio
Created by: Joe Withrow
Last updated January 2022
What you will learn
- Construct and implement a personalized asset allocation model
- Learn how to spread capital across several different asset classes to create antifragility
- Determine a proper cash allocation
- Acquire precious metals for home and overseas storage
- Acquire real estate with advantageous financing terms
- Build a stock portfolio utilizing expert risk management tools
- Analyze and acquire low-risk bonds at a discount to par
- Effectively manage an asset portfolio using a customized spreadsheet
- Buy, sell, and trade Bitcoin using proper security practices
- Understand what Bitcoin is... And why it is here
- Learn how to make money in the markets, even when stocks fall
- Learn the fundamentals of options trading
- See why options are not the high risk asset most think
- Implement advanced option strategies to generate extra income every month
How it compares
Against the other 33 rated Udemy courses in Personal Finance on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 33% of them
- Reviews390#14 of 34 by number of reviews
- Length3.5 hourslonger than 63% of them
- Last updatedJanuary 2022earlier than 69% of them
Course Description
***Now with over 50% more course content. Get explosive information on market strategies... options... Bitcoin... and more, all for the same price.
Throughout the developed world there is an invisible glass ceiling above the middle-class... Keeping average people from getting ahead.
Mortgage debt... Auto debt... Credit card debt... Student loan debt... Rising costs of living... Exploding health care costs... Stagnant wages... Artificially low interest rates... Globalization... Automation... Robotics... Artificial intelligence...
It all conspires to keep the glass ceiling just overhead.
But there is a way out. Financial independence is more possible than ever in the Information Age.
You won't shatter the glass ceiling playing their game, however. To achieve financial freedom, you need a new game... a new set of rules.
You need a new perspective.
Simply contributing to a 401(k) or buying a basket of mutual funds just isn't going to cut it. Not in today's world.
You see, most of the conventional wisdom is dangerous when it comes to personal finance. There may be nuggets of truth in the mainstream messages... But they approach finance as if it were a static institution.
They do not explore money and monetary history. They do not analyze macroeconomic trends. They certainly don't cover the intricacies of the capital markets with central bank interventions.
Most conventional sources still parrot the same message:
Buy term and invest the difference... earn 6-8% a year in low-fee mutual funds... stop buying lattes... retire rich.
It sounds nice. And it sells books. But it doesn't work.
For one, you can’t earn 6-8% a year in mutual funds anymore. You will be lucky to break even. And you may even lose your shirt if you own the wrong assets.
And saving $5 a day by dropping Starbucks amounts to a whopping $1,825 per year. Do that for twenty years and you'll have $36,500... Which won't even fund one year of retirement.
You see, generalizations are deadly in the world of finance. There are just too many moving pieces.
You need a targeted investment strategy if you want to shatter the glass ceiling and achieve financial freedom.
At Bulletproof Personal Finance, there are two layers to this...
First, we want to spread our capital across a number of asset classes according to a targeted allocation ratio. Think of these asset classes as "buckets".
Cash... Precious Metals... Real Estate... Stocks... Bonds... and Bitcoin - we want to build strategic exposure to each asset class.
And this course will cover everything you need to know to build your own asset allocation model.
Next, we want to employ the best strategies within each asset class. We want to fill our buckets with strategic investments according to the financial climate.
That's where our advanced strategies come in. This course series presents strategies that will succeed in both bull markets and bear markets.
So, we want to build a strategic outer layer of asset buckets. Then we want to hone in on targeted investments to put into those buckets.
In his book titled Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder, Nassim Taleb defined antifragility as: the ability to benefit from shocks; the ability to thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors.
Our two-layer approach is all about building antifragility.
We want to build an asset portfolio that will protect our capital... benefit from existing macroeconomic trends... and generate big returns with a few key investments.
The goal is to gain financial independence - the ability to choose our own course regardless of what life throws at us.
And that means we need to be able to thrive as the world around us changes. After all, this universe is irrefutably marked by change and paradox. Nothing stays the same forever.
Bulletproof Personal Finance accounts for this with our two-layer strategy. The outer layer is all about fundamentals. The inner layer is all aboutdynamic strategies that work in any market and economic climate.
But it all starts with the fundamental principles.
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
390 Reviews
Joe Withrow
Joe Withrow is just an average, hardworking American who did everything by the ‘American Dream’ handbook.
He took advanced classes in a public high school and graduated with good grades. He then went on to earn a finance degree from a public university.
Upon graduation, Joe moved to a major banking hub and played the corporate game... Climbing the ladder at two different mega-banks.
He worked in loss mitigation in aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis... He worked as a credit risk analyst in commercial lending... And he went on to manage a multi-million portfolio of special assets.
Throughout the process, Joe bought a starter home... Met his wife... And settled down to live the American Dream – just as he had been educated to do.
He contributed the match rate to his 401(k). And he maxed out his contributions to a traditional IRA – just as he had been educated to do.
Joe was doing everything the “right” way and a storybook life appeared to be unfolding before him.
But then something strange happened.
Joe started to see that the corporate rat-race had no light at the end of the tunnel and no rewards worth reaping.
He began to realize that the American Dream was not what it used to be. The rules had changed...
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Reviews
By Anonymized User on 12/27/2023
Overall a good course. The TD Ameritrade examples should be replaced with Schwab since Ameritrade sold out to Schwab. This course could use an update (I believe it was done in 2016 even though it says it was last updated January 2022 - most of the content seems to still be from 2016). The short selling and puts portion wasn't very clear and could have used multiple examples and slow walk through to explain it better.
By Anonymized User on 4/22/2021
The course lays out all the necessary steps to manage your portfolio across all asset classes and explains what you need to know to start investing in each asset class with out using technical terms or implying a higher level of understanding.
By Anonymized User on 4/20/2020
It gives you a wide explanation about Asset Portfolio, but when the course talk about Stock Market the images were very blurry so you can´t follow the course as you should to get the best out of it.
By Anonymized User on 12/17/2019
Really enjoyed the anecdotes that Joe used to illustrate core principles. Easy to listen to speech. Only recommendation: Interactive quizzes at the end of the course to refresh the content learned.
By Mike on 10/29/2018
The more I listen, the more I learn. The way in which Joe teaches and shares information is very easy to understand and just as important, to actually do what he is teaching you to do.
By Anton Danshin on 2/16/2018
The delivery is a little too fast. The problem is not in my comprehension of speaker's speech, it was crystal clear. I understand "what" and "how" but sometimes I found it difficult to understand "why". Maybe that's because I am new to this, but anyway it would be nice if speaker provided more answers to "why"s :)
By Anonymized User on 5/19/2017
It's a good overview, but it could benefit from more examples. E.G. the screenshot of the asset allocation in the spreadsheet was great, and i would have liked something similar for the Cash section. The sections on precious metals was excellent.
By Michael Withrow on 4/26/2016
Joe does an excellent job in building upon the core principals defined in "Finances for Freedom" by diving into one of the most important fundamentals of personal finance--asset diversification. Joe shows real life examples of how and why you should spread your wealth to withstand and thrive in any market condition. On top of that, Joe also explains when and where you can be more aggressive in your investments...without risking your entire portfolio. Highly recommended for anyone looking to understand how to survive & grow their wealth in today's world.
By Kenneth Morgan on 2/27/2016
This course provides a clear, direct, and concise path for managing your finances using the asset allocation strategy. I found it to be extremely insightful and practical!
By Rachel Harris on 2/15/2016
This course provided me with a great perspective on money management. I feel like the course was comprehensive, and I especially like the fact that the instructor provided screencasts to walkthrough how to purchase several of the asset classes.
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Overall Score : 90 / 100






