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The Passive Investing Bubble

By Jeff Hybiak, CFA • May 12, 2017 • 0 Comments
The Passive Investing Bubble

“Active investing is dead.”

 

“Buying a low cost index fund is the best way to ensure financial success.”

 

“Nobody wants to pay a fee for something they can do themselves.”

 

Those are just a sampling of the comments I’ve

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Chart of the Week

Status Quo Bias

By Jeff Hybiak, CFA • May 10, 2017 • 0 Comments
Status Quo Bias

 

Humans do not like change. It’s just how our brains are wired. We would rather see a negative outcome by sticking with a known than risk having a negative outcome by making a change.

 

Last week I discussed “conservatism” bias, which is the failure

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Behavioral Biases,status quo

An Unstable Economy

By Jeff Hybiak, CFA • May 08, 2017 • 0 Comments
An Unstable Economy

Despite the rebound in job creation in April, the big picture has not changed. Throughout this century we’ve seen corporations taking a bigger piece of GDP at the expense of the labor force. Please do not take this statement as an endorsement of socialism. Instead it is a

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Chart of the Week,Corporate Profits,Labor

Conservatism Bias

By Jeff Hybiak, CFA • May 03, 2017 • 0 Comments
Conservatism Bias

Each morning this week I’ve scanned the news looking for the “story” to develop in my mind to relay to our advisors and clients. Each morning I’ve come away with nothing. This morning as I again could come up with nothing it finally hit

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Behavioral Biases

About that "weak" GDP

By Jeff Hybiak, CFA • April 28, 2017 • 0 Comments
About that "weak" GDP

Once again I’m seeing a flood of headlines discussing the “disappointing” or “weak” GDP report released this morning. Pundits are using it to call into question the enthusiasm we’ve seen in so many sentiment indicators since the election of President Trump. The

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