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Strategies for Success: Mastering the Psychology of Investment Markets
Unlock the keys to mastering market psychology and achieving investment success with these insights and strategies for today's dynamic markets.
Give the Gift of Financial Knowledge: The Best Books for Young Investors
These books will help young (and young at heart) investors understand what it means to be financially successful.
Bringing the Evidence Home
Welcome to the final installment of Escient Financial's series on Evidence-Based Investment Insights: Bringing the Evidence Home.
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 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: Conclusion
We’ll wrap our series, the ABCs of Behavioral Biases, by repeating our initial premise: Your own behavioral biases are often the greatest threat to your financial well-being.

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