by RCD-DEV | Aug 8, 2012 | Finance
With Age Comes Wisdom A few weeks ago I was sitting on the beach with my family, enjoying a few days away from the office. Something about the sound of ocean waves and sand between my toes caused my thinking to become broader than usual. I thought about the fact...
by RCD-DEV | Jul 3, 2012 | Finance
Leave It To Beaver Sir John Templeton was a pioneer in global investing. He started his first mutual fund in 1954 – many decades before foreign stocks and before investors were comfortable with the idea. It would take forty years for Modern Portfolio Theory, which...
by RCD-DEV | Jun 8, 2012 | Finance
Before It’s Time When I ask investors to define risk, you think it means losing all your money with no chance to recover the funds. I think risk is the change in the value of your investments at certain intervals of time. Risk is seen differently based on...
by RCD-DEV | May 3, 2012 | Finance
Our Propensity To Predict Why is it that we are so – gullible, fascinated, obsessed – with forecasts? Jason Zweig writes in his book, Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich, asserts that there is a human compulsion to...
by RCD-DEV | Mar 30, 2012 | Finance
We Never Let Go A recent article in the Wall St. Journal shared the story of a stock mutual fund manager who maintains a buy-and-hold investment philosophy. Like him, every investment professional must adopt a philosophy for making investment decisions. The question...
