Category: behavioral finance

Investment Lessons From 2022
Investment Lessons From 2022
By Larry Swedroe, Head of Financial and Economic Research, Buckingham Strategic Partners While each year features new twists on the age-old investment stories, smart investors...
2 Approaches to Get Back in the Market if You’ve Been Out
2 Approaches to Get Back in the Market if You’ve Been Out
If markets have recently hit all-time highs, investors may wonder whether they have already missed the best returns and so ought to wait for a...
Be Positively Skeptical Part 3: Check the Facts Before You Act
Be Positively Skeptical Part 3: Check the Facts Before You Act
“You can outsource expertise but never your understanding, especially when it comes to your finances.” — Ben Carlson, “Don’t Fall For It” As we covered in...
How to Be Positively Skeptical: Part 2 How Do You Do Your Due Diligence?
How to Be Positively Skeptical: Part 2 How Do You Do Your Due Diligence?
“All media shares one thing: Someone created it. And it was created for a reason. Understanding that reason is the basis of media literacy.”   ...
How to Be Positively Skeptical: Have Awareness and Understanding When it Comes to Investing
How to Be Positively Skeptical: Have Awareness and Understanding When it Comes to Investing
“I’m not an optimist. That makes me sound naïve. I’m a very serious ‘possibilist.’ That’s something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes...
Clarity Throughout the Coronavirus Chaos With Larry Swedroe
Clarity Throughout the Coronavirus Chaos With Larry Swedroe
With all the market volatility and chaos around the Covid 19 outbreak, people are wondering how this volatility is going to affect them.  This volatility...
Does Money Buy Happiness?
Does Money Buy Happiness?
There’s a cliché that money can’t buy happiness. Is that true? Thanks to research from Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton, authors of...
Are Your Politics Affecting Your Investment Results?
Are Your Politics Affecting Your Investment Results?
The fourth quarter of 2018 was a pretty miserable one for investors, with the S&P 500 Index losing 13.5%. And it was looking a lot...
Get Your Own Financial Prescription
Get Your Own Financial Prescription
As much as I value the unfettered access to information the internet provides, I recognize the potential harm that too much information can cause. Take,...
5 Financial Adages for Thriving in Volatile Markets
5 Financial Adages for Thriving in Volatile Markets
Sometimes the best, most rigorously developed financial advice is so obvious, it’s become cliché. And yet, investors often end up abandoning this same advice when...
Find Your Happiness Equation While Investing Money
Find Your Happiness Equation While Investing Money
To say that “money isn’t everything” is more than a cliché. Studies in the early 1970s demonstrated that a sense of well-being, or happiness, had...
Dividend Payout Rates Indicate What in a Global Market?
Dividend Payout Rates Indicate What in a Global Market?
It’s been well-documented that stock prices tend to react positively when companies announce an increase in dividends. That’s in contrast to economic theory, which holds that companies...

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