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Investing Is Not a Game
Are you out of breath trying to keep up with the breaking news about GameStop and all the other red-hot trades o’ the day? Here’s a synopsis (to date), and what it means to you as an investor.
An Evidence-Based Approach to ESG Investing, Part 2: How Do We Measure “Good”?
As we covered recently, environmental, social, governance (ESG) investing is a relatively new approach for investing “ethically,” however you define the term. Some ESG investors …
An Evidence-Based Approach to ESG Investing, Part 1: What Is ESG Investing?
If there’s one trait nearly everyone shares, it’s a desire to make the world a better place. No wonder there’s so much interest in environmental, social, governance (ESG) investing.
Evidence-Based Investing + Indexing: Making a Good Thing Even Better
As the public grows increasingly familiar with “passive” or “index” investing, it’s becoming easier for individual investors to gain cost-effective exposure to …
Bringing the Evidence Home
Welcome to the final installment of Escient Financial's series on Evidence-Based Investment Insights: Bringing the Evidence Home.
The Vital Role of Rebalancing
If there is a universal investment ideal, it is this: Every investor wants to buy low and sell high. What if we …
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 ...
What Has Evidence-Based Investing Done for Me Lately?
As Eugene Fama has explained, “You should use market data to understand markets better, not to say this or that hypothesis is literally true or false. No model is ever strictly true. The real criterion should be ...
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 ...

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