by Stoffel | Sep 22, 2024 | Biases, Decision Making
Bayes’ reasoning is a powerful tool for decision-making under uncertainty. It’s used not just in statistics but also in various fields like medicine, artificial intelligence, economics, and investing. The crux of Bayes’ reasoning is updating your prior beliefs...
by Stoffel | Sep 20, 2024 | Decision Making, Investing
Investing in the stock market can be an exciting and daunting task. One of the most debated strategies within the world of investing is market timing – an approach where investors try to predict future market movements in order to buy before prices rise and sell...
by Stoffel | Sep 20, 2024 | Biases, Decision Making
This post on biases is structured into 3 parts: Part 1: Understanding Biases and Their Impact on Decision-Making Part 2: Individual Biases That Lead to Bad Financial Decisions Part 3: How Biases Influence Financial and Investment Decisions Part 1: Understanding...
by Stoffel | Sep 11, 2024 | ETF, Investing, Risk Premia
If Investors want to earn expected returns higher than the riskless rate, the most reliable way is to bear risks that markets reward with a premium. A less reliable way is to pursue active management, in which successful investors (skillful or lucky) reap gains at the...
by Stoffel | Sep 10, 2024 | Investing
What I learned from losing 70% of my portfolio and why that was the best thing that could have happened. The Bubble That Taught Me Everything I got lucky. Not in the sense that I made money, but in the sense that I learned life-changing lessons before the stakes...