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For investors, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed by the relentless stream of news about markets. Being bombarded with data and headlines presented as impactful to your financial well-being…

It’s been approximately a decade since the Great Recession began. By year-end 2008, the U.S. Federal Reserve had lowered the target federal funds rate to near-zero hoping to resuscitate the…

Overall market temperatures have been so mild for so long, many newer investors have yet to weather a perfect market storm. Even if you have, you may have forgotten how…

After nearly a decade of leaving the federal funds rate at zero percent, the time finally came on December 16, 2015. Since then, the Fed has made several modest increases.…

For a number of investors, 2017 was a paradox. The harder they tried to enhance their results by paying close attention to current events, the more likely they failed to…

While market volatility can be nerve-racking for investors, reacting emotionally and changing long-term investment strategies in response to short-term declines could prove more harmful than helpful.

We’re coming in for a landing on our alphabetic run-down of behavioral biases. Today, we’ll present the final line-up: sunk cost fallacy and tracking error regret.