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Larry Swedroe unpacks an illustration supporting factor diversification for portfolio efficiency. The holy grail of investing is the search for investment strategies that can deliver higher expected returns without increased risk, or the same expected return with reduced risk. In our 2014 book, “Reducing the Risk of Black Swans,” my co-author Kevin Grogan and I...

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Can we better save for retirement by acting as if that “someday” is today? While on vacation recently in the Abaco Islands, on the outer rim of the Bahamas, I found myself on an important mission: taking the golf cart to the local market to restock our dwindling supply of the necessary ingredients for piña...

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Larry Swedroe takes a look at the data and builds his case for why investors should continue to expect a value premium going forward. Recency bias—the tendency to give too much weight to recent experience and ignore long-term historical evidence—underlies many of the mistakes commonly made by investors. It’s particularly dangerous because it causes investors...

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Larry Swedroe unpacks a recent study suggesting that, when selecting active mutual funds, investors confuse loading on common factors with managerial skill. Extensive and readily available data show that the persistence of active managers’ outperformance is well below what we would expect from pure chance (randomness). Making matters worse is that the equity managers who...

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Larry Swedroe tackles research into how managing volatility shapes outcomes and utility. There’s a large body of research demonstrating that, while past returns do not predict future returns, past volatility largely predicts future near-term volatility. For example, since 1926, the correlation of returns between adjacent 60-trading-day periods is essentially zero. In contrast, the correlation rises...

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Larry Swedroe explores whether bitcoin is a worthwhile investment or is still purely speculative. As the director of research at Buckingham Strategic Wealth and The BAM Alliance, it’s not surprising that I’ve been getting lots of calls lately about investing in bitcoin. Just seven years ago, bitcoins were trading at about 10 cents. Four years...

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Manisha Thakor and Financial Finesse CEO Liz Davidson explore what it means to achieve financial wellness. Manisha Thakor and Financial Finesse CEO Liz Davidson explore what it means to achieve financial wellness, and why more and more companies are offering programs to obtain it as an employee benefit, on the MoneyZen Podcast. By clicking on...

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Larry Swedroe checks in on how 2017’s “sure thing” predictions fared through the third quarter. At the start of 2017, I compiled a list of predictions that gurus had made for the upcoming year, along with some items that I hear frequently from investors, for a sort of consensus on the year’s “sure things.” I’ve...

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