Archive for July, 2012
The Low-Risk Anomaly
I ran across an interesting article this week that was published in early 2011 in the Financial Analysts Journal (FAJ). The article is an academic study on the long term returns of investing in high-risk versus low-risk stocks. The study was conducted by three professors of finance/economics who are also asset managers. If you have […]
Recency Bias
Recency bias is not a term you often hear in the investment world, but I have read about it and seen other people experience this thought process when it comes to investing in the markets. I believe recency bias is one of the causes of why so many people sabotage their investments by “buying high […]
The Art of the Deal
This post may be a little off topic, but since I have written several posts on real estate investing, I thought it might be helpful to explain one of the most important skills I have developed over the years. This post will be about the basics of how I negotiate real estate transactions.
A Tool to Help Monitor Your Investments
If you are like me, after years of working and saving money, you have several retirement related accounts spread around different financial institutions. In this post I will introduce you to a free online software tool that can help make monitoring your investments much easier.
Why Did We sell Our home? (Part 2)
This post is a follow-up to my last post on why we sold our home. In that post I discussed the opportunity to sell our home at a premium price and, despite the fact we loved our home, we concluded that selling our home would better enable my wife and me to change our lifestyle […]
