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Left Brain Thinking highlights the securities analysis of Left Brain Wealth Management and the logical approach that the firm brings to creative investment ideas. Each week, you'll get Left Brain's take on specific stocks and bonds. Tune in to experience the disciplined decision-making and independent thinking that powers the firm's search for profitable investment opportunities.
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English
United States
142 episodes
since Sept. 30, 2020
episodic
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I'll come right out and say it: net worth is the wrong number to obsess over. If you have a $5 million portfolio and need $120,000 a year from it, that's a 2.4% annual cash flow need. Almost nobody frames it that way. Everybody asks the net worth question instead. In this episode, Brian Dress and N…
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Can you retire at 50 with $5 million? One person can. Another person with the exact same $5 million isn't close, because the number was never the point. The spending rate behind it is.
In this episode, Brian Dress and Noland Langford compare two 50-year-old households with identical $5 million por…
In this episode, Left Brain Wealth Management Founder & CIO Noland Langford and Director of Research Brian Dress sit down for their Q2 2026 Investment Committee debrief. On the surface it was a strong quarter, the S&P 500 was up 14.9%, but the conversation goes well beyond the scoreboard. N…
Brian Dress and Noland Langford walk through everything executives need to know about their equity comp packages, from the basics of RSUs, stock options, and ESPP, to vest day tax implications, the job change trap, and what building a real equity compensation plan actually looks like.
In this epis…
In this episode of Fundamentals of Investing, Brian Dress and Noland Langford tackle one of the most common (and most overlooked) financial challenges facing corporate executives: what to do when your company stock becomes a dominant part of your net worth.
They cover the full picture of equity ex…
I n this episode, Left Brain Wealth Management CEO Noland Langford and Director of Research Brian Dress address one of the most painful and underserved situations in executive finance: your concentrated company stock position is falling — and you don't know whether to act or wait.
Noland and Brian…
If you work at a publicly traded company and receive any form of equity compensation, RSUs, stock options, ESPP, or deferred comp, this episode is for you.
Brian Dress and Noland Langford walk through the executive diversification trap: how concentration in employer stock builds gradually, why it …
Once income crosses $300K, taxes often become one of the largest controllable expenses.
At that level, several things begin to change:
• deductions phase out • equity compensation adds complexity • timing decisions matter more
We recently recorded a discussion covering several of these considera…
For 15 years, buying the dip worked. That conditioning may now be a liability. Defensive sectors are leading.
Growth multiples are compressing. For more than a decade, markets rewarded a simple discipline: buy the dip. It worked. But leadership is rotating. Growth multiples are compressing. Defens…
Executives often focus on salary when evaluating offers. But real wealth (and potentially real risk) usually lives in the equity package.
In this episode, Brian Dress and Noland Langford unpack how to evaluate job offers through a strategic lens, helping leaders avoid costly missteps and uncover l…
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