Drive Your Managed Portfolio into the Ground
“Invert, always invert.” – Charlie Munger, the Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett’s partner. Munger borrowed the idea of inversion from 19th century…
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Closest Thing to a Fat Pitch in Investing
“Interest rates go up and down, stock markets boom and bust, but human psychology never changes. I believe that studying how people think about and react to markets—and particularly studying the most common mistakes investors make—can give us an edge...
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The Rise of the Call Center Advisor
“If I were a single-digit millionaire tossed out of the “paradise” of private banking, I’d walk away from that bank altogether. They don’t want me?…
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The Danger of Mixing Politics and Investing
A dark cloud of geopolitical uncertainty hangs over the global equity markets (see our rational for investing in gold). Even if you wanted to ignore…
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The Allure of Gold
“I think that the 5-year bear market in gold is over and that we’re in the beginning of a new bull market and I’m very,…
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Exchange Traded Funds Are (Mostly) Good
“The flow of money into ETFs doesn’t represent some mad rush to a specific asset class or sector; it’s simply a change in formats to…
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What is Evidence-Based Investing?
“As Upton Sinclair said, it’s difficult to persuade even the most intelligent people to accept the evidence if they’re financially incentivized to ignore it.”– Robin…
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Hard Ball Questions to Ask Your Advisor
A Google search for “Questions to Ask Your Financial Advisor” will yield an abundance of articles ranging from exhaustive to utter nonsense. The below list…
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Don’t Underperform Yourself
Prolonged bull markets can lead to false confidence for do-it-yourself investors, financial advisors, and professional institutional money managers. After all, everyone looks like a genius…
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Pure Q1 Recap in Pics (and a few words)
We are trying something new to convey our view of the world to our readers. We have heard feedback from investors that industry market commentary…
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