IFRS 18 responds to investors’ concerns about challenges in comparing companies’ financial performance.
Category: United States
Meir Statman: Your State of Mind Influences Your Investing Success
Meir Statman shares his insights on the broader aspects of financial well-being and its interconnection with life satisfaction.
Book Review: Trailblazers, Heroes, and Crooks
Stephen Foerster, CFA, extracts lessons from exceptional episodes in financial history that ordinary investors and seasoned professionals alike can put to profitable use. The bonus is that you’ll be entertained from start to finish.
What Price Risk? Unpacking the Equity Risk Premium
Stocks are a good wager over the long term, on favorable odds. But stocks remain a bet, and investors must grasp how much returns can vary over long time horizons.
Equity Income Investing Redux
No doubt the past year has been difficult for equity income investors. But history, inherent biases, mean reversion, and the current market backdrop point to a comeback.
Book Review: Enrich Your Future
This engaging book is simultaneously memorable and humorous. The numerous sports analogies will have you smiling as you absorb Larry Swedroe’s unforgettable investment precepts.
CAPE Is High: Should You Care?
A simple analysis shows that Robert Shiller’s cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio changed in the 1990s and that mean-reversion concerns may be misplaced. If CAPE changed three decades ago, however, there is nothing preventing it from doing so again.
AI to the Rescue? Overhauling the US Power Grid on the Path to Net Zero
Once known as secure and profitable investments, utilities are now viewed as enterprises fraught with financial risks. Investors should favor utilities that employ AI and other digital strategies to minimize damage from natural disasters.
Does a Stock’s Price Influence Its Risk Profile?
As a stock falls in value, it becomes more sensitive to market movements and its total volatility increases.
Managing Regret Risk: The Role of Asset Allocation
Regret risk is a quantifiable phenomenon. The answer for some clients may be equally weighted portfolios.