A critical element of being a good investor is understanding human behavior. In this piece we take our focus away from quantitative finance and focus on understanding the [...]
If you want a signed copy of our books for Christmas/Hannukah presents, the time is NOW. Below is the link to Quantitative Value. Make sure [...]
We like to use rules of thumb, or heuristics, when facing choices. We often default to rules of thumb because when finding the optimal choice [...]
Confirmation bias is the tendency to cling to research/ideas that confirm with what you already believe. This behavioral bias leads to overconfidence and can impede our search for [...]
Hi Readers/Fans: We are happy to announce that our second book, DIY Financial Advisor, is finally available. For a limited time (and while supplies last) we are selling the [...]
Among a certain set of people, the desire to be good at poker is just in their bones. Maybe it’s because they want to win [...]
A recent IMF World Economic Outlook survey projected that in 2015-2016 advanced economies will grow at 2%-2.5% rate, while emerging and developing markets are growing [...]
Yesterday we posted a review on Ben's new book, A Wealth of Common Sense. We reached out to Ben and conducted a follow up Q&A. [...]
Ben Carlson splashed onto the blog scene a few years ago with his hit website, aptly named, "A Wealth of Common Sense." My initial reaction was, "Oh [...]
James Simons is an American academic and businessman who in 1982 founded Renaissance Technologies, which today is among the best known quantitative investment management funds [...]
Recapping Older Ideas on Socially Responsible Investments Back in 1970, Milton Friedman wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine that outlined his views [...]
We've spent a lot of time these days thinking about how to identify economic moat, or a firm's ability to defend against competitive forces in [...]
Book Overview One of the most fundamental choices for any investor is their approach to strategic asset allocation. What are the major asset classes to [...]
High frequent traders are armed with powerful weapons: mobs of PhD quants, super-computers, and sophisticated algorithms. HFT has provided wonderful liquidity benefits to the marketplace. Yet, [...]
Topic: Why Value Investing is Simple, but Not Easy Registration Link: https://interactivebrokers.webex.com/interactivebrokers/onstage/g.php? t=a&d=711901301&SourceId=aa Date and time: Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 12:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (New [...]
Book Overview Anyone involved in business has observed that certain products, services or ideas seem to catch on and become wildly popular. Others ideas fall [...]
Aaron Seager, a portfolio manager at Arbor Hill Advisors, offered up the following charts showing alpha over the past 15 years for Warren Buffett and an [...]
Here's the bottomline: As an investor, you've probably been helped by high-frequency-trading, but it is equally likely you've been SCREWED by high-frequency trading. As a [...]
Book Overview In today’s complex financial world, borrowing rates are all around us, implicit in everything from our credit cards to our mortgages. Many of these [...]
Our firm mission is to empower investors through education. One area of the marketplace where education is lacking is in the ETF, or exchange-traded-fund arena. [...]
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