Is the Stock Market a Popularity Contest or a Scale?
If one of your New Year resolutions is to beef up your knowledge around the stock market, today’s blog post is for you! We take a look at the United States financial market and whether a popularity contest or scale is a better description. The father of value investing Benjamin Graham explained, in somewhat dated…
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Happy 10th Birthday, Economic Expansion
The United States economy is in the midst of a record-breaking economic expansion. As of July 2019 the U.S. economy has grown for 121 months surpassing the previous record spanning from March 1991 to March 2001. While this seems like cause for celebration many investors who experienced the last recession have been looking over their…
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Overconfidence: There’s More to Thinking Than You Think
The concept of behavioral finance is a relatively new field of study that combines psychological theory with conventional economics. We may not realize it, but we all have certain biases as investors, and that impacts the financial decisions we each make. Even the most disciplined investor may have difficulty overcoming personal biases – it’s how…
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Mental Accounting: There’s More to Thinking Than You Think
Cash is cash, right? But sometimes, we treat money differently depending on where it came from or what we intend to do with it. When that happens, mental accounting may be at play. Our next post in our behavioral bias series: There’s More to Thinking Than You Think takes a look.
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There’s More to Thinking Than You Think: Understanding How Biases Impact Decisions
In this series, we explore some of the most common behavioral biases to which people find themselves susceptible. Today we look at Loss Aversion.
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