Max Wong, contributor to Wise Bread, highlights a number of defined concerns that women have about retirement. Her article, while written several years ago, is still a valuable article that can be used to help women of any age take steps to…
Category: Investing
Behavioural Finance: What’s Your Problem?
Disagreeing with a Nobel prize winner Back in 1970, Eugene Fama PhD, first published his Efficient Markets Theory that suggested that all securities prices are explained in the context of what information sets are available. However, he goes on to…
Why Do I Need Equity Exposure In My Portfolio?
The media reporting today highlights countless geopolitical talking points that are calling for the end of the world. Global pandemic data routinely shakes the confidence of our population multiple times per day. The result…stock markets around the world are in…
Investor Biases: “Oh, the humanity!”
Here we are, poking fun at that powerful, yet delicate, and sometimes malfunctioning, piece of anatomy called the human brain. Investor biases fall into two categories: Cognitive Biases and Emotional Biases. Some call them “heuristics” – or simple rules of…
Are We In Control?
Are We In Control? The markets have experienced quite a roiling in the last six months. Some people are wondering if they’re invested correctly. They are asking, “What is going on out there? Are we doing the right thing?” The…