Index Fund Advisors - Podcast
Summary: Index Fund Advisors (IFA) is an independent financial advisor that provides wealth management by utilizing risk-appropriate, returns-optimized, and tax-managed portfolios of index funds. IFA.tv provides webcasts explaining the investing strategies of IFA.com and Mark Hebner's book, Index Funds: The 12-Step Recovery Program for Active Investors, with Foreword by Nobel Laureate Harry Markowitz. See hard cover here: http://indexfundsbook.com and iBook here: http://iBookIndexFunds.com.
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Podcasts:
Mark Hebner introduces the new Investing Kit.
Mark Hebner summarizes the market's performance during the third quarter of 2018 & demonstrates the difficulty in picking the next asset class winner.
With the recent market volatility, Mark Hebner wanted to give his thoughts on the instability.
An annual study called the Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior by Dalbar attempts to measure the impact of investor decisions.
Investment committees or plan sponsors tend to hire investment managers with a history of above benchmark returns.
One of the problem investors face is what behavioral psychologists call Recency Bias. In other words, they focus on the very recent past and project that indefinitely into the future.
The growing popularity of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is raising red flags not just with investment professionals.
Of all the behavioral biases people are prone to, one of the most prevalent is optimism bias. We typically assume things will turn out better than they do.
Generally speaking, it's good to have a positive outlook on life and to be reasonable optimistic about the future.
Broadly speaking, there are three different types of fund you can invest in: active funds, passive funds and funds that give you exposure to certain risk factors.
Mark Hebner summarizes the market's performance during the second quarter of 2018 and demonstrates the difficulty in picking the next asset class winner.
Some people treat their financial advisor like an order taker. They go to them with preset ideas about what they want, and the advisor's role as they see it is to carry out their instructions.
Pascal's Triangle is a number pattern steeped in history. The triangle has been studied for millennia.
It was in 1876 in a Victorian workshop rather like this one that Sir Francis Galton constructed a contraption called the Galton Board.
There's no point in accumulating wealth just for the sake of it. What matters is what we do with our wealth.
