…It adds that investors should ensure their portfolio allocations reflect their investing time horizon. For example, someone looking at retirement in 20 years “has nothing to worry about—we have recovered…
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Excess Returns, Ep. 17: The Importance of Challenging Your Own Beliefs
Confirmation bias is one of the most damaging biases in investing. All of us want to be right. We all want to think that opinions that disagree with ours don’t…
What Would Jack Bogle Tell Us Now?
…Bogle was right then, and his wisdom is just as relevant now. Clearly, he didn’t know the coronavirus was coming, but he knew steep market plunges were part of investing…
Playbook for Investing Amid the Coronavirus
A recent article in Forbes compares the current investing backdrop to that of 9/11 and the financial crisis of 2008. Following are highlights from the article: Current situation versus 9/11:…
Three Things I Feel Strongly About – And Why I Might Be Wrong
By Jack Forehand, CFA (@PracticalQuant) Confirmation bias is one of the most damaging biases in investing. All of us want to be right. We all want to think that opinions…
Zweig on the Brain and a Crashing Stock Market
…columnist Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal. “To keep it from destroying your long-term investing plan, you will need to manage that stress and restore a sense of control,”…
How to Love a Falling Stock Market and Stop Worrying
…article in The New York Times that explains, however, that when people tend to avoid stock market investing due to this fear, they also often “fail to jump back in…
The E*Trade Deal and the New Investing Game
Morgan Stanley’s $13 billion purchase of E*Trade Financial Corp. “shows how drastically the brokerage industry’s business model has changed,” writes columnist Jason Zweig in a recent Wall Street Journal article….
Learning from Buffett and Others During Market Crises
…all the fear, stepped up and wrote an Op-Ed piece for the New York Times titled, “Buy American. I Am.” In it, he defended investing in American businesses over the…
Vanguard Dips Toe into Private Equity
…very different investing worlds,” the article states, noting the contrast between Vanguard’s reputation for keeping things simple (by offering low-cost index funds) and the inherent complexity of private equity funds–which…