{"podcast":{"title":"The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing","slug":"the-meb-faber-show-better-investing-743157","podcast_index_feed_id":743157,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/TIFM6133783130","website_url":"https://www.themebfabershow.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/dfd9a908-428f-11ee-a9c5-6fac729c68a0/image/1400x1400.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"The Idea Farm","episode_count":708,"summary":"Ready to grow your wealth through smarter investing decisions? With The Meb Faber Show, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investment fund manager, Meb Faber, brings you insights on today’s markets and the art of investing. Featuring some of the top investment professionals in the world as his guests, Meb will help you interpret global equity, bond, and commodity markets just like the pros. Whether it’s smart beta, trend following, value investing, or any other timely market topic, each week you’ll hear real market wisdom from the smartest minds in investing today. Better investing starts here. For more information on Meb, please visit MebFaber.com. For more on Cambria Investment Management, visit CambriaInvestments.com.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T16:19:52.677138+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-meb-faber-show-better-investing-743157"},"episode":{"title":"Dividend Myths That Distort Markets (w/ Sam Hartzmark) | #628","slug":"dividend-myths-that-distort-markets-w-sam-hartzmark-628","published_at":"2026-04-24T08:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-meb-faber-show-better-investing-743157/dividend-myths-that-distort-markets-w-sam-hartzmark-628","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-meb-faber-show-better-investing-743157","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/TIFM5332486028.mp3?updated=1776862072","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/TIFM5332486028.mp3?updated=1776862072","summary":"Today’s guest is Samuel Hartzmark, a finance professor at Boston College. In today’s episode, Sam explores why dividends are so often misunderstood by investors. He explains the “free dividends fallacy” and how it can lead to inflated valuations and price dislocations. He also examines the tradeoffs between dividends and buybacks and how payout policies influence investor behavior. To close, Sam briefly touches on his research on prediction markets and ESG. (0:00) Starts (1:59) Sam Hartzmark on dividend misconceptions (15:24) Mutual funds juicing dividend yields (27:26) Buybacks, shareholder yield, and reinvesting dividends (39:57) Tax optimization (43:40) Importance of total return (52:26) Divestment, prediction markets, and memorable investments ----- Follow Meb on X, LinkedIn and YouTube For detailed show notes, click here To learn more about our funds and follow us, subscribe to our mailing list or visit us at cambriainvestments.com ----- Follow The Idea Farm: X | LinkedIn | Instagram | TikTok ----- Interested in sponsoring the show? Email us at Feedback@TheMebFaberShow.com ----- Past guests include Ed Thorp, Richard Thaler, Jeremy Grantham, Joel Greenblatt, Campbell Harvey, Ivy Zelman, Kathryn Kaminski, Jason Calacanis, Whitney Baker, Aswath Damodaran, Howard Marks, Tom Barton, and many more. ----- Meb's invested in some awesome startups that have passed along discounts to our listeners. Check them out here! ----- Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Today’s guest is Samuel Hartzmark, a finance professor at Boston College. In today’s episode, Sam explores why dividends are so often misunderstood by inv…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3928,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-meb-faber-show-better-investing-743157/episodes/dividend-myths-that-distort-markets-w-sam-hartzmark-628/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-meb-faber-show-better-investing-743157/dividend-myths-that-distort-markets-w-sam-hartzmark-628.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}