In the latest installment of Forbes’ Intelligent Investing, Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders talks about the state of the credit markets and economy, the impact of emotion…
Category: Behavioral Finance
Zweig: WWGD? (What Would Graham Do?)
Writing sixty years to the day after Benjamin Graham’s classic The Intelligent Investor was published, Jason Zweig says that Graham would be cautious amid a market like this one. “Today…
Yale's Swensen on Asset Allocation -- and Why to Avoid Mutual Funds
On WealthTrack with Consuelo Mack, Yale endowment guru David Swensen discusses his thoughts on how individual investors should structure their portfolios, where the markets are headed, and why you should…
Is This Crisis Really a "White Swan"?
In a recent article for the CFA Institute Conference Proceedings Quarterly, James Montier, Societe Generale Cross Asset Research’s global strategist, argues that the recent economic crisis and market plunge were…
Hulbert: Fear Is Encouraging
In his latest column for MarketWatch, newsletter-watcher Mark Hulbert of Hulbert Financial Digest makes an interesting observation about fear and contrarian investing, one that echoes the findings of one of…
Tilson, Heins, and Recency Bias
How did so many investors and analysts fail to recognize the looming economic and stock market crises in recent years? In their latest Forbes column, Whitney Tilson and John Heins…
How Your Brain Can Drag You Down -- and How You Can Overcome It
Nature vs. nurture — it’s an eternal debate, and, as Jason Zweig shows in his most recent Wall Street Journal column, scientific research shows it’s a question that can have…