“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” – George S. Patton Let’s say I’m invited over to your house for dinner. We…
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Is Your Portfolio Drunk or Sober?
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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““We are beginning to see trends that people tend to fear what they are exposed to in the media. Many of the top 10 fears…
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Getting a Fat Pitch and Not Swinging
“Amateurs think the world should work the way they want it to. Professionals realize that they have to work with the world as they find…
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Investing in a 0% World
“Zero rates aren’t a new normal; they’re just normal in Japan.” – Verdad Capital That didn’t last long. After four years of “normalizing” rates from…
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Good from Far, but Far from Good
“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very…
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Scratching Your Degenerate Itch
“Bad bets sometimes pay off.” – Marty Rubin, Canadian Author There’s been a stir in financial media about Robinhood traders bidding up bankrupt companies to…
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Investing Cash in a Runaway Market
“Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.” – Peter…
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Does Your ESG Approach Pass the Smell Test?
I was perusing my LinkedIn feed when a particular post caught my eye. For the record, I have no clue who Mark A. Smith is….
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Municipal Magic
“You can take advantage of pockets of opportunity in what people don’t want.” – Jeff Gundlach, DoubleLine CEO We’ve been fielding a decent number of…
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