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Search Results for: psychology OR behavior

Investing’s Four Horsemen

May 18, 2022

…also encourage bad investor behavior such as selling at the peak. That’s more advantageous to managers than investors. And of course, brokerages who encourage meme stocks was a hot topic…

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Buffett: Markets Becoming A “Gambling Parlor”

May 5, 2022

…bets, and derided the risky behavior that’s rampant among investors these days, he pointed out that the current volatility has given Berkshire the opportunity to seek out undervalued companies to…

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The Five Biggest Mistakes I Have Made in My Career Managing Quant Strategies

March 23, 2022

…investment strategies can’t be built in a vacuum. They need to account for the behavior of the investors that will use them. [3] Relying Too Much on Single Factors I…

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AI Could Help Investment Decisions

March 17, 2022

…and make better decisions by addressing pitfalls such as herd behavior. AI doesn’t possess herd-like tendencies; it won’t invest in something because everyone else is. Another bias that investors lean…

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5 Two-by-Two Matrixes That Can Help You Become A Better Investor

March 16, 2022

…The first matrix comes courtesy of Howard Marks, co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management. In Marks’ 2006 memo, “Dare To Be Great”, he talks about unconventional behavior and contrarian investing. Most…

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Small Growth Funds Had a Great Run But Their Investors Did Not

February 17, 2022

An article in CityWireUSA quotes the maxim “the more volatile the asset class, the worse the investor behavior,” and examines the active funds in Morningstar’s Small Growth category to back…

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Tech Stock Rout A Loyalty Test For Wood’s ARK

February 2, 2022

…to raise U.S. interest rates, and investors are shifting their behavior in accordance, pulling back from the riskiest positions. ARK’s ETFs are in the middle of the sell-off that’s also…

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The Risk Reduction Conundrum

January 19, 2022

…Essential Role of Behavior After I just spent most of this article addressing why the major reasons that many investors are thinking about reducing risk right now don’t really hold…

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Is the Market Rigged in Favor of Insiders? We Talk to Wharton Professor Daniel Taylor to Find Out

December 13, 2021

…govern it. Then we dig deep into his research and what it tells us about the behavior of insiders and whether they have an unfair advantage. Daniel’s research and papers:…

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What is Your Investment Edge?

October 6, 2021

…we judge other investors. When we make an investment decision, do we know what our edge is? Watch/Listen to Joe Wiggins discuss investor behavior on the Excess Returns podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C6JKZZ2_YA…

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