by Zack Miller on August 23, 2011
This post is derived from my exclusive email list, the AdvisorInsider — providing tips, tools and technologies helping grow investment businesses. Sign up here Keeping it simple I don’t know about you but sheesh, have the phone calls started pouring in. Investors are palpably scared, worried, fretting. Most of all, they’re aimless, looking for direction. [...]
by Zack Miller on October 5, 2010
In my book, Tradestream, I describe how I’ve changed my investing strategy as I’ve matured as an investor. My stint as a hedge fund manager taught me to think differently than the crowd. But still, I continued to think that I was somehow smarter than the market. Somehow, I was cured of the biases that [...]
Behavioral Finance in an emerging field. We’ve practically done away with viewing an investor as a purely rational being (sorry, Kant) and now look at investors as normal people driven by emotions. These emotions totally influence our behavior as it relates to investing (loss aversion, et al) and therefore completely impacts the performance of our [...]