Buy low, sell high…maybe the most obvious axiom in investing. It seems so obvious, yet in practice, most investors have difficulty buying the worst-performing assets
A decline in stock prices during a bout of market volatility often elicits the comment that “this is a buying opportunity because markets always bounce
A recent study conducted by Dimensional Fund Advisors assessed the performance of actively managed mutual funds by comparing fund performance to the performance predicted by
A recent New York Times article titled “How Much of Your Nest Egg to Put Into Stocks? All of It” makes an unusual argument that
Investors (all of us) are hard-wired to make poor investment decisions. Among other biases, we become over-confident when markets rise and assume the worst will
A recent WSJ article explains why bear markets can occur at any time. The article emphasizes a common point made by FSIA with its clients,
Responding to an email, I came up with this and thought it was worth sharing… The fundamental problem with bond guys is they are programmed
“The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link,
In a recent white paper, “Vanguard – Quantifying Advisor Alpha“, mutual fund company Vanguard attempts to quantify the added value of the “passive” investment advisor.
In a recent Institutional Investor article, authors Clifford Asness and John Liew, offer an interesting and entertaining look at the evidence for and against market
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