Is the Market Headed Higher or Lower? Are Investors Impostors?
Is a tomato a fruit, or is a tomato a vegetable? Botanically, tomatoes are a fruit. But in 1894 the U.S. Supreme Court (Nix v....
Retirement Portfolios – Shifting from Accumulation to Distribution
Creating sustainable retirement portfolios is as much art as science. The tendency to view our annual capital projections as only science, due to the mathematics...
Hedge Funds – The Good, The Bad and The Train Wreck Coming
The concept of “hedging”, or protecting investors from volatile and uncertain markets, is not new. In fact, the history of hedging has been traced to...
Human Overconfidence + A Post-Crisis World = Even More Indebtedness
I am endlessly fascinated by the unwitting and reflexive expressions of our genetic programing. No matter how much we may believe we are rational creatures...
Client Expectations Matter!
Dr. Harry Markowitz won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering quantitative research and economic theories. He is credited with developing much of the intellectual framework...
Obscured Risk Associated with Hedging
This article is a continuation of my remarks begun last week. The central points were: There are many ways one can be wrong when hedging...
Hedging – A Protection From Losses?
This article serves as an introduction, and to establish context for remarks over my next two articles. James “Jamie” Dimon is the current chairman, president and chief executive officer...
Investor Risk, Value and Price
In large measure, the resolution of the international debt crisis revolves around whether the largest and most credit worthy nations (United States, Germany and Japan)...
