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Behavioral Biases – What Makes Your Brain Trick?
In this installment, we’ll familiarize you with a half-dozen of these more potent biases, and how you can avoid sabotaging your own best-laid, investment plans by ...
The Human Factor in Evidence-Based Investing
We turn now to the final and arguably most significant factor in your evidence-based investment strategy: the human factor. In short, your own impulsive reactions ...
Factors That Figure in Your Evidence-Based Portfolio
Grounding your investment strategy in rational methodology strengthens your ability to stay on course toward your financial goals, as we ...
Lump-Sum Investing vs. Dollar-Cost Averaging - Part 2: Actual Outcomes
In part one, we discussed why lump-sum investing is generally expected to generate the highest returns over time. In markets that have risen more, and ...
How To Be Positively Skeptical, Part 3: How Do You Do Your Due Diligence?
Our brains are hardwired to lead with fight-or-flight instincts ahead of rational resolve. As such, our critical thinking often plays second-fiddle to rash reactions such as fear, excitement, overconfidence, and regret.
How To Be Positively Skeptical, Part 2: Understanding Your Emotions
Let’s talk about your emotional reaction to unfolding news, and the impact that can have on your financial well-being.
How To Be Positively Skeptical, Part 1: The Benefits of Having a Doubt
In this multipart series, we explore how to strengthen fact-checking skills. This is the first in the four-part series.
The ABCs of Behavioral Biases: A-E
Welcome back to our “ABCs of Behavioral Biases.” Today, we’ll get started by introducing you to four self-inflicted biases that knock a number of investors off-course: anchoring, blind spot, and confirmation.
The ABCs of Behavioral Biases: Introduction
Your own behavioral biases are often the greatest threat to your financial well-being. As investors, we leap before we look. We stay when we should go. We cringe at the very risks that are expected to generate our greatest rewards.

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