Amongst all the various cognitive biases that cause human beings to think and act irrationally, one of the more insidious ones is known as confirmation bias. Simply put, it means we tend to favor information that supports previously existing beliefs, and tend to reject anything that does not. How much of a problem is confirmation…
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Happy New Year! Now that the dust has settled on 2015, it’s time to enjoy the flood of predictions coming from well-known (and not so well-known) experts on stock market performance for 2016. I did a quick scan and came up with the following: Julian Emanuel, a strategist at UBS, expects the S&P 500 to…
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In today’s world, newly-minted retirees are being forced to take on risks that their predecessors did not have to deal with. Prior to the 1990s, a retiree could typically count on a guaranteed amount of income from social security and from company pensions lasting until he or she passed away. In effect, the federal government…
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In a recent 2016 investment outlook paper, Joseph Davis, Vanguard’s chief economist, estimated annual global equity growth over the next five to ten years to be in the 5%-8% range, significantly below the 10% average from 1926-2014. He based this expectation to a large extent on lower U.S. and international GDP real growth rates. While…
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Last year I wrote about a strategy involving 529 plans designed to maximize the financial aid a college student could receive (see https://www.cognizantwealth.com/2014/03/10/best-place-to-hold-your-529-plan/). To summarize the original strategy: if you split your savings into two 529 plans, 75% in one owned by the student’s parent and 25% in one owned by the student’s grandparent, you…
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This Thanksgiving (which is tomorrow as of this writing), when you find yourself leaning back from the table after having consumed a bountiful turkey repast, it’s only natural for your thoughts to turn to a historical event that kicked off one of the greatest real estate booms in American history. I’m referring of course to…
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