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The Essence of Evidence-Based Investing
As with any risky venture, there are no guarantees that you’ll earn the returns you’re aiming for, or even recover your stake. This leads us to why we so strongly favor evidence-based investing. So what does evidence-based investing entail?
The Business of Investing
With all the excitement over stocks and bonds, and their ups and downs in headline news, there is a key concept often overlooked: Market returns are ...
Get Along, Little Market
Like a bucking bronco, near-term market returns are characterized more by periods of wild volatility than by a steady-as-she-goes trot. Diversification helps ...
Managing the Market’s Risky Business
Before we even have words to describe it, most of us learn about life’s general risks when we tumble into the coffee table or reach for that pretty cat’s tail. Investment risks aren’t as straightforward.
The Full-Meal Deal of Diversification
Among your most important financial friends is diversification. After all, what other single action can you take to simultaneously dampen your exposure ...
Financial Gurus and Other Fantastic Creatures
In his Berkshire Hathaway 2017 Shareholders Letter, Warren Buffett described his take on investment “experts” when he wrote: “Performance comes, performance goes. Fees never falter.” Instead, Buffett suggests, “Seizing the opportunities ...
Ignoring the Siren Song of Daily Market Pricing
What causes market prices to change? It begins with the never-ending stream of news informing us of the good, bad, and ugly events that are forever taking place.
You, the Market, and the Prices You Pay
When it comes to investing (or anything in life worth doing well) it helps to know what you’re facing. In this case, that’s “the market.”
Escient Financial's Evidence-Based Investment Insights
Are you ready to become a better investor – to enhance your understanding of the most important principles that drive the creation of wealth – without it hurting a bit? That’s what Evidence-Based Investment Insights is all about.
What is Evidence-Based Investing?
There’s something to be said for simplicity – especially the kind that takes powerful solutions and strips them to their applicable essence.

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