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Reflections on the Recent Downturn in Stock Prices

Let’s imagine for a moment that on your daily walk to work, your normal route takes you past a pawn shop that is known to display...

Your Brain and Investing: Sixth in an Occasional Series

As we enter the “home stretch” in our look at the “ABC’s” of behavioral investing, it might be important to reflect, for a moment, on how...

Your Brain and Investing: Fifth in an Occasional Series

In our last visit to the “ABCs” of behavioral investing, we looked at fear, greed, and the herd mentality and how they can work together...

Your Brain and Investing: Fourth in an Occasional Series

This series of articles provides a look at some of the emotional and behavioral biases—most of which are unconscious—that can affect...

Your Brain and Investing: Third in an Occasional Series

In this series of articles, we’re looking at the emotional and behavioral biases—most of which are unconscious—that can affect investing...

Your Brain and Investing: Second in an Occasional Series

In the first article of this series, we introduced the broad concepts of behavioral investing, especially the ways in which our human...

Your Brain and Investing: First in an Occasional Series

Legendary economist and investor Benjamin Graham (1894–1976) made a timeless observation, decades ago: “The investor’s chief problem—and...

Who Should You Listen To? Market Predictions and the Individual Investor

As in every year, the last weeks of 2019 saw a host of predictions and prognostications for the coming year. Many market...

Do You Spend More Time Looking Back, or Looking Forward?

As we come to the end of what has been possibly the most challenging year in recent memory, it is only natural that many of us are...