Below are links to our most popular posts for this week on Validea’s Guru Investor blog.- [1] Five Questions: Behavior in Investing with Dr. Daniel Crosby [2] Mauboussin on the Pitfalls…
Tag: Investor Behavior
Learning from the Hierarchy of Investor Needs
By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — The original “hierarchy of needs” model was developed by Abraham Maslow in 1943. Maslow proposed the hierarchy as a way to understand human motivation…
When Your Experience Fails You
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Because it’s easier, we’re inclined to use our recent experience as the baseline for what will happen in the future. In many situations, this bias works…
Investors are Behaving Less Badly
New evidence suggests that investors may be shifting their habit of buying high and selling low, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. The article reports that a…
"I Don’t Know" – The Most Important Phrase in Investing
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Certainty is often seen as a sign of strength in life. When someone is telling us the best course of action within their field of expertise,…
What Gambling and the Oakland A's Can Teach You about the Importance of Process
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — I have a friend who is an infrequent gambler and won money almost every time he went to the casino. He did it by exclusively playing…
Joel Greenblatt Combines Active and Passive Investing
In a recent episode of WealthTrack, Consuelo Mack interviewed Gotham Asset Management’s Joel Greenblatt, who shared his thoughts on active and passive investing and how he has combined the two…
Why Artificial Intelligence Won’t Fundamentally Change Investing
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Artificial Intelligence is going to change the world. It already has in many ways. But its best days are still ahead of it. So many industries,…
Resist Hysteria During Market Stumbles
Bulls should be “as confident as ever,” writes columnist Nir Kaissar in a recent Bloomberg article. Emphasizing that “panicking is never a good plan when it comes to investing,” Kaissar writes,…
A Fund that Profits from Investor Mistakes
A recent Barron’s article offers a profile of Raife Giovinazzo, a former student of Nobel Laureates Daniel Kahneman and Richard Thaler, who has managed the $370 million Fuller & Thaler…