Imagine that you are at an interview for your dream job. The interviewer says, โI have 100 applicants for this job. Tell me why I should choose you.โ You are an appropriately confident person, not an overconfident one. So, you say: โHonestly, I donโt know. I donโt know the qualifications of the other 99 applicants […]
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โI split my contributions 50/50 between bonds and equities,โ Harry Markowitz said in a famous 1998 interview with Jason Zweig.1 Markowitz readily admitted that he did not compute co-variances and draw a mean-variance efficient frontier. โInstead, I visualized my grief if the stock market went way up, and I wasnโt in it โor if it
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In a 1974 episode of the TV sitcom โAll in the Family,โ Archie Bunker gleefully tells his wife Edith, daughter Gloria and son-in-law Michael about his unionโs labor settlement in a time of high inflation. Edith: โArchie, did you get a good raise?โ Archie: โEdith, a three-year contract with 15%.โ Michael: โArch, what about the
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We unpack Silicon Valley Bank’s descent to insolvency and federal officials’ decision to extend deposit insurance to depositors whose accounts exceeded FDIC’s general limit of $250,000.
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We unpack the pros and cons of typical three-bucket portfolios, including the potential behavioral benefit and costs.
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Few people have all the time and money they want. Money squeeze is common, as is time squeeze, but each take different forms among the working class and the elite.
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In these times of market anxiety, our emotions can get the best of us. While we cannot eliminate emotions, we can learn to manage them through cognitive reflection.
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