For those of you who have not had a chance to check out Barry Ritholtz’s Masters in Business series over at Bloomberg, I can assure you that you will not be disappointed. Barry has been at this for over a year now interviewing some of the top people in business (not only in finance), academia, and a few in the … Read More
Corrections are a time to get things right…again
As we kick off another volatile week on Wall Street (to the downside as volatility can also mean to the upside) I came across two great articles last week to provide some perspective on the current equity market situation; Barry Ritholtz’s weekly column at the Washington Post and a WSJ article by Geoffrey Rogow titled 5 Days That Taught Investors … Read More
Where You Live Correlates to a 20% Investment Bias
We are always interested in learning more about our investing biases. Hat tip to Barry Ritholtz for posting the graph below. Looking at the list of stocks that I follow, I definitely have a tilt towards the industrials. I think that this is likely not only because I grew up in the Midwest and currently live in MI, but also due to my extensive corporate … Read More
You’re only human: An economist explains how it hurts your portfolio
More and more a very important aspect of portfolio management is the psychological or behavioral side of investing. Put another way understanding how your emotions, biases, and mode of thinking affect how you invest your assets. Richard Thaler professor of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago is widely considered to be the father of behavioral economics. … Read More
What Happens When Your Brain Doesn’t Get Enough Sleep
The interesting graph below that Barry Ritholtz posted at The Big Picture. Makes me wonder how I ever made it through that first year of sleepless nights and 2 am feedings with my triplets?
Why daydreaming not multitasking is the way to process the unprecedented amount of information we now face
No wonder why most people feel like they are overloaded. The video below ties into another post the “paradox of choice” concept. With so much choice in the world, we burn precious energy fighting the distractions vs. being able to take the appropriate time to really focus on the task at hand. Hat tip to Barry Ritholtz
10 Things About Living Longer in Retirement
Hat tip to Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture
