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        Improving Your Website to Get More Business

        I created this video for Behavioral Finance Network members on August 5th and think it [...]

        02
        Nov
        How Did I Miss That?

        The other day I was pondering on what the economy and market may do in [...]

        15
        Oct
        Behavioral Coaching

        Behavioral coaching is a term used often among advisors. But what exactly is it? Behavioral [...]

        08
        Sep
        Using Loss Aversion to Your Benefit

        Loss aversion is an emotional bias. Basic behavioral coaching strategies are ineffective with emotional biases. [...]

        31
        Aug
        The CDC, COVID and Behavioral Biases

        The director of the CDC recently said that this fall may be the worst one [...]

        15
        Aug
        Challenges of Applying Behavioral Finance

        There are various challenges to applying behavioral finance effectively in an advisor’s practice. In this [...]

        05
        Aug
        How Behavioral Finance Helped Advisors in 2020

        As I speak at major conferences on the application of behavioral finance I often hear [...]

        14
        Jul
        Make 2020 A Great Year

        We are halfway through the year, and already people say “good riddance” to 2020. This [...]

        07
        Jul
        How Investors Choose Their Financial Advisor

        I am a member of Brighthouse Financial’s Insights Panel. This panel contains thought leaders across [...]

        08
        Jun
        Behavioral Finance Doesn’t Work

        A declaration that behavioral finance doesn’t work is probably not something you expect to hear [...]

        03
        Jun
        10 Destructive Behaviors of Emotional Investors

        A magazine editor recently read my book, The Emotional Investor, and I gave him permission [...]

        26
        May
        Behavioral Finance Article Published by Kitces

        Late last year I was asked by Michael Kitces to write a guest blog on [...]

        18
        May
        Is “Do Nothing” Just Lazy Advice?

        We are coming off of some pretty significant moves in the stock market. The market [...]

        05
        May
        My Costco Experience – Recovery May Take a While

        Yesterday I went to Costco with my wife to pick up a few items. That [...]

        08
        Apr
        The Fear Pandemic & A Timely Message

        There is one thing more contagious than Coronavirus – that is fear. The last few [...]

        16
        Mar
        A Consistent Message For YoYo Markets

        The last few days have been something else! Coronavirus news came out several weeks before [...]

        05
        Mar
        InvestmentNews – Behavioral Finance Interview

        At Schwab’s IMPACT conference, I was interviewed by InvestmentNews about the challenges facing advisors in [...]

        11
        Feb
        Decision Quality

        We often evaluate the quality of our decisions based on its outcomes. If it was [...]

        04
        Feb
        Beware of Averages

        We use averages often in the business of investing and financial planning. We quote averages [...]

        19
        Nov
        “Smart Money” Shows It’s Stupidity Again

        Ever since I began paying attention to the so called “smart money”, I have been [...]

        17
        Oct
        Why This Time May Be Worse For Investors (Psychologically)

        We are down about 5% from ALL TIME highs. And investors are beginning to get [...]

        26
        Aug
        I’m Crying for You Argentina

        Yesterday, the Argentine stock market, known as the S&P Merval Index, lost over 48% in [...]

        13
        Aug
        Me, Myself & Market Movements

        Last week the Federal Reserve did as everyone was expecting – they cut rates 25bps. [...]

        07
        Aug
        Our Lives Would Be Better Without Twitter

        The virtue of technology is its capability to improve our lives. It can make things [...]

        18
        Jul
        The Virtue of Note Taking

        The other week I spoke at a major broker/dealer conference. I flew in the day [...]

        11
        Jun
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