Fix the Investor: Anchoring Bias
Behavioral biases found in almost all investors, both private and professional, are often exhibited by enduring habits, behaviors and biases that are very difficult to self identify. These are our badRead More…
Behavioral biases found in almost all investors, both private and professional, are often exhibited by enduring habits, behaviors and biases that are very difficult to self identify. These are our badRead More…
The Fix The Investments Series With the explosive growth of passive investing since the introduction of the Vanguard 500 (ticker symbol: VFINX) index mutual fund in 1976, and later with the genesisRead More…
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The ETF Spotlight is on iShares Gold Trust Ticker Symbol: IAU Family: iShares by BlackRock Exchange: NYSE Arca Brief: IAU seeks to reflect generally the performance of the price of gold. BecauseRead More…
I’ve coached “retirees” for a long time. More and more of them still work. If you regularly scan the internet for blog posts and articles about retirement (which is probably how youRead More…
“Tip #1: Let’s Retire the Word Retire!” ― Mary Helen Conroy, author of Your Amazing Itty Bitty® Retirement Book
On his sixteenth birthday the boy gets a horse as a present. All of the people in the village say, “Oh, how wonderful!” The Zen master says, “We’ll see.” One day, theRead More…
Last week another marijuana ETF hit the Big Board, AdvisorShares Pure Cannabis ETF, ticker symbol YOLO (NYSE Arca). The new entry into the marijuana boom, YOLO will track an actively managed portfolioRead More…
Beyond fear and greed, other powerful behavioral biases can be found in almost all investors, both private and professional, and are often exhibited by enduring habits and behaviors that are very difficultRead More…
“…a fund’s management has skill only if the fund’s expected gross returns are sufficient to cover the costs (primarily trading costs) not included in its expense ratio…a comparable efficiently managed passive fundRead More…