Investing

Insight can be mysterious. It doesn’t have to be. It can be learned, taught, and mastered. Three factors are especially...

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Book Review: Money, Meaning, and Mindsets

21 March 2018 Money, Meaning, and Mindsets: Radical Reform for the Investment Industry. 2017. Jim Ware, CFA, Keith Robinson, and Michael...

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Six Kinds of Career Allies: Building a Personal Board of Directors

The people we encounter in our professional lives can support our careers in a number of ways. Most often we...

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Weekend Reads: Western Mongolia Edition

16 March 2018 “When you arrive in the west, a fresh wind will greet you,” said Tuul, our Mongolian guide,...

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New Fed chair, new challenge

When Jerome Powell presides over his first Federal Open Market Committee meeting as the new Federal Reserve chairman on March...

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Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMS): Good for Retirees?

Suppose a private client’s largest asset was illiquid and costly to maintain. Its long-term price performance was mediocre, and its...

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Red States, Blue States: Two Economies, One Nation

As economists and investors, we treat the United States as one country and one economy and the eurozone as a...

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Why Isn’t There Any Inflation?

Ten years have passed since the global financial crisis. The world economy has recovered, yet we still have not emerged...

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Portfolio Managers, Artificial Intelligence Is Coming for Your Jobs

This is the second installment in a three-part series exploring the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on investment management. I want...

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Risk Is a Moving Target