Insights and Ideas

Staying composed when storm clouds bring bad weather is not easy but, just as keeping a steady hand on the tiller and staying calm is the key to reaching a port safely, avoiding the urge to make changes in volatile markets is the key to long-term investing success.

Classical conditioning explains a great deal of the way traders and brokers behave on Wall Street.

Many traditional asset management firms are resisting change that will come if they are held to a true fiduciary standard.

The best ideas often from keep-it-simple “rock science”, not rocket science. 

Many otherwise rational adults act like herd animals when it comes to investing.

Market prognosticators are never in doubt, but often wrong.