Investment Strategies and Asset Management by Meb Faber
Meb Faber is co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Cambria Investment Management, overseeing assets in excess of USD 2 billion across quantitative ETFs and bespoke portfolios. His flagship podcast, The Meb Faber Show, has produced over 400 episodes, featuring global macro thinkers and crypto fund managers. Faber’s research on trend-following and risk-parity models integrates digital assets as non-correlated exposures within long-term portfolios.
In 2025, his firm expanded its whitepaper series to include studies on crypto yield strategies and decentralized indexing protocols. Faber’s newsletter and Substack content attract more than 30,000 active readers, while research from Cambria on inflation-hedged tokens has been downloaded over 80,000 times. His comparative analyses have been cited by fund-of-funds managers and institutional gatekeepers.
Faber’s systematic approach to crypto enables financial advisors and private investors to position digital assets within evidence-based allocation frameworks.
Meb Faber: Ed Yardeni comments on perma-bears and stock market exits
Ed Yardeni stated that perma-bears can persuade people to exit the stock market whether it is at the top, in the middle, or at the bottom. Meb Faber shared this perspective, quoting Yardeni's ...
Cambria Funds celebrates 20 year anniversary with $5 billion in AUM, Meb Faber notes
Cambria Funds will soon celebrate its 20 year anniversary and now manages $5 billion in assets under management (AUM). Meb Faber shared an updated chart reflecting this milestone, noting that ...
Meb Faber: Outcome varies with short, medium, or long TIPs maturities
Meb Faber commented that selecting short term, medium, or long dated maturities for Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPs) can produce very different outcomes. Faber highlighted the ...
Keep buying despite bubble since mid last year, Dirk Willer says
Citi's analysis indicates that markets have been in a bubble since the middle of last year. Dirk Willer, Head of Global Macro Asset Allocation at Citi, recommends continued buying in this ...
Meb Faber: Rob Arnott describes why investors dislike bargains
Rob Arnott said that anything newly cheap has inflicted pain and losses, which leads investors to dislike bargains. This assessment was shared by Meb ...
Financial advisors use high income mutual funds in taxable accounts, Meb Faber notes
Meb Faber criticized financial advisors who present high income mutual fund portfolios in taxable client accounts. He suggested disapproval of this practice by referencing his reaction when ...
Meb Faber: Can AI agents manage portfolios better than investment committees
Meb Faber asks whether a group of AI agents can run a portfolio more effectively than a traditional investment committee. The tweet highlights a discussion with Andrew Ang, a former head of factor ...
Brazilian stock market rallies on valuation rebound, Meb Faber notes
Meb Faber highlights that Brazilian stocks rose 14% in trading today. According to Faber, Brazil was the world's second cheapest stock market at the end of Q3. He observes that while media ...
Meb Faber: Questions $25 billion ETF exclusion from search over fee dispute
Meb Faber raises concerns about potential monopolistic behavior by questioning whether excluding a $25 billion ETF from search results, due to non-payment of what he describes as 'extortion fees,' ...
Holding T-bills remains optimal based on yield spread, Meb Faber notes
Meb Faber shares that, according to the strategy discussed in the referenced paper—investing in risky bonds only when the yield spread justifies—it would currently recommend staying 100 ...
Meb Faber: SpaceX IPO instantly ranks among top 10 market cap stocks since 1950
Meb Faber highlights that the SpaceX IPO was so large it immediately became one of the top 10 stocks by market capitalization. He adds that since 1950, only one other company has achieved this ...
Own assets that cannot be printed and buy what is unpopular, Meb Faber notes
Meb Faber urges investors to prioritize assets that cannot be created at will and to focus on buying what the majority avoids. He also recommends steering clear of U.S. stocks that he believes ...
Meb Faber: Bonds have shaped major historical and political outcomes
Meb Faber highlights the significant influence bonds have had on historical and political events. According to Faber, bonds were instrumental in defeating Napoleon, leading to the downfall of a ...
U.S. and UK showed the strongest market cap growth in 1899, Meb Faber notes
Meb Faber highlights historical equity market performance, noting that in 1899, the U.S. and UK markets achieved significant gains when ranked by market capitalization. He references Inigo ...
Multiple risks compound at high valuations, Meb Faber notes
Meb Faber highlights comments from Paul Kedrosky on the risks associated with high valuations. According to Kedrosky, when valuations are high, there are numerous potential paths to failure, ...
Meb Faber: Asset manager rivalry intensifies as competition grows among leading firms
Meb Faber points to the escalating competitive dynamics among top asset management firms. He observes that prompting the number one asset manager to directly enter the market as a rival can ...
Stock market rewards patience and long-term strategy, Meb Faber notes
Meb Faber shares an investing insight that the stock market works against those looking for easy money, while favoring long-term investors. The comment, originally from Ben Carlson, suggests ...
Meb Faber: Debt draws future wealth into present, risk in excess borrowing
Meb Faber shares an investing quote from Andrew Ross Sorkin highlighting the nature of debt. According to the statement, debt enables people to draw wealth from the future into the present, but ...
Bonds exceeded stocks for most of nineteenth century, Meb Faber notes
Meb Faber challenges the common belief that stocks have always outperformed bonds over the long run. According to Faber, for much of U.S. history, regular individuals did not have access to buy an ...
Meb Faber: Statistics are bloodless things in investing
Meb Faber shares an investing quote of the day, highlighting the idea that statistics are bloodless things. The quote, attributed to Frederick Lewis Allen, reflects on the impersonal nature of ...
Fund ratings suffer from errors and inconsistency, Meb Faber notes
Meb Faber criticizes the quality and consistency of fund ratings, noting that different ratings are applied to the same analysts across various funds at his firm. He points out inconsistencies ...
