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Here Comes the Behavior Gap Newsletter

by Carl on August 4, 2010

I’m putting the finishing touches on the first edition of the new Behavior Gap Newsletter. The newsletter will be the place where you can find exclusive content and new sketches that haven’t been published anywhere else. If you haven’t signed up yet, you can still sign up here.  The newsletter will go out Thursday morning and I’m looking forward to getting your feedback.

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Revisiting the Yale Endowment

July 26, 2010

The Behavior Gap is not just a problem for individuals. I was reviewing some old posts and ran across this one about the Yale Endowment fund. At the time I was doing some work for a large university endowment and was surprised at how eager, almost anxious, they were about finding alternative investments of any [...]

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The Mental Anchor of Money Mistakes @NYTimes

July 21, 2010

Past performance is no guarantee of future performance, yet how many of our decisions rely on what happened in the past? At the New York Times we’re discussing what we risk when we anchor our decisions on past value. This habit hurts us most when it comes to how we think of money. We can’t [...]

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Markets Have Feelings

July 15, 2010

[UPDATED] MIT finance professor, Andrew Lo recently told a story about Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize winning physicist. According to Lo, Feynman was speaking to a group at Cal-Tech soon after the 1987 crash and said: “Can you imagine how hard physics would be if electrons had feelings?” Think about that for a moment…we often [...]

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Learning to Live with Conflicts of Interest @NYTimes

July 13, 2010

Conflicts of interest are inherent in the traditional financial services industry. Ignoring that the conflict exists doesn’t accomplish much. Life gets even more messy when you have been led to believe that the relationship is something other than “Let the buyer beware.” At the New York Times we’re discussing what this conflict means to you [...]

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Ignore Generic Financial Advice @NYTimes

July 8, 2010

Whether your flipping channels or browsing through a magazine, at some point you’ll come across snippets of financial advice. By itself, the advice isn’t dangerous, but how you choose to apply it can be. At the New York Times we’re discussing how relying on general financial advice can be dangerous to your financial health. How [...]

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The Great Debt Reset @NYTimes

July 7, 2010

How has your life changed since the economy went south? Have you changed your spending habits? Have you saved more? At the New York Times we’re debating the need to rethink how to best fix our economy. The answers aren’t simple, nor are they fast acting. Ultimately the fix starts with each of us assessing [...]

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