In this episode we change things up from our usual topics and focus on financial planning. No matter how much experience and training we have, all of us tend to…
Tag: Investor Mistakes
The Five Biggest Mistakes I Have Made in My Career Managing Quant Strategies
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — It is hard to believe that I am coming up on twenty years of running quantitative investing strategies. And in those twenty years, I have probably…
Jeffrey Gundlach on His Biggest Investment Mistakes
DoubleLine CEO Jeffrey Gundlach says there are about 2000 mistakes every investor can make and guesses he has made nearly all of them twice—but not a third time. This according…
Active Investors’ Mental Mistakes
Many amateur investors stick to active strategies, even when the evidence shows that “it’s more than likely to be a fool’s errand,” because we allow mental shortcuts to lead us…
Learning from the Mistakes of Legendary Investors
In a recent issue of the AAII Journal, author Michael Batnick highlights missteps made by investing legends as outlined in his book Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst…
John Bogle on Common Investor Mistakes
In a 2014 interview with AAII Journal, Vanguard founder John Bogle outlined common investor mistakes and other thoughts about the market. Here are some highlights: “The biggest mistake investors make…