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: Wealth Management
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…
The Pandemic Pivot: Shedding Old Habits and Creating New Ones
It will be quite some time before we understand the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the history of such shocks tells us two things. Even in severe economic downturns and recessions some companies are able to gain advantage.…
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…