Category: investment management
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What You Can Learn from a Wealth Advisor: Michael Evans’ Story, Part 2
In a previous blog, we shared some of the lessons Michael Evans’ learned in the school of hard knocks. Our goal was the help you...
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What Behavioral Biases Could be Harming Your Financial Life?
We’re coming in for a landing on our alphabetic run-down of behavioral biases. Today, we’ll present the final line-up: sunk cost fallacy and tracking error...
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Do Behavioral Biases Distract You from Making the Best Choices About Your Wealth?
Let’s continue our alphabetic tour of common behavioral biases that distract otherwise rational investors from making best choices about their wealth. Today, we’ll tackle: fear,...
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What You Can Learn from a Wealth Advisor: Michael Evans’ Story, Part One
What You Can Learn from a Wealth Advisor: Michael Evans’ Story, Part One You want to be an informed and educated investor. You listen to...
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Should You Have a Catchphrase Investment Strategy?
The financial media is drawn to catchphrases, acronyms, and buzzwords that can be sold as the new thing. FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google)...
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Part 4 – ABCs of Behavioral Biases: Factors That Drive Lifetime Returns
Your own behavioral biases are often the greatest threat to your financial well-being. Things like favoring emotions over evidence – disregarding decades of evidence-based advice...
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More Money is Lost Waiting for Corrections Than in Them
We have data for 91 calendar years (or 1,092 months) of U.S. investment returns over the period 1927 through 2016. The average monthly return to...
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What Can Impede Your Investing Success? ABCs of Behavioral Biases
There are so many investment-impacting behavioral biases, we could probably identify at least one for nearly every letter in the alphabet. Today, we’ll continue with...
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The ABCs of Behavioral Biases – Where Do Your Decisions Go Awry?
Welcome back to our “ABCs of Behavioral Biases.” Today, we’ll get started by introducing you to four self-inflicted biases that knock a number of investors...
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How Often Have the Stock Market’s Annual Returns Actually Aligned with Its Long-Term Average?
“I have found that the importance of having an investment philosophy—one that is robust and that you can stick with— cannot be overstated.” —David Booth,...
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Your Behavioral Biases Are Often the Greatest Threat to Your Financial Well-Being
By now, you’ve probably heard the news: Your own behavioral biases are often the greatest threat to your financial well-being. As investors, we leap before we look....
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Why You Should Care About the DOL’s Fiduciary Rule Delay
In late August, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced its intention to delay the final phase-in for its new fiduciary rule from January 1, 2018 to July...
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