Recent Posts In: Risk

Sir Isaac Newton: Brilliant Physicist. Miserable Investor.
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At Holcombe Financial’s recent client learning event about “Behavioral Biases and Their Investment...
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Never A Good Time To Invest
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The last five years have been nothing more than spectacular for those that endured the stock market collapse of...
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Beating the Market: What I learned from a Nobel Laureate
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After two gate changes and a mad dash at the Atlanta airport, I ducked into the bookstore while I waited for the...
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Intelligent Error
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There are distinctive patterns in the errors people make. The reasons for this are many. Daniel Kahneman in his...
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Final Financial Physics Video Blog
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Walking a highwire without a net is impressive, but not necesarrily smart. Establishing a financial safety net is smart...
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Shooting a Fly with a Shotgun
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Once success happens you can no longer say, “I will continue my life now as it was before.” Tennessee Williams in...
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Financial Physics – Part IV
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The Safety Net As mentioned in Part III, either we reinvent old ideas (Madonna) or come up with brand new ones. Either...
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Financial Physics – Part II
Posted in: Cash Flow, Financial Planning, Risk
Never pay fixed bills with variable money In the second law of financial physics, we move our discussion to the...
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Controlling the Uncontrollable
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When you really think about it, the only thing absolutely outside of our control or influence is the weather. The...
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Dallas to Flagstaff
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“What’s that noise?” “Not sure, heard it over Dallas but then it went silent again.”...
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The Certainty of Uncertainty
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In response to PepsiCo announcing they will cut 8,700 jobs in 2012, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi said the following,...
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Learning from Failure
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Mike Kryzewski or Coach K is the winningest basketball coach in NCAA history, a graduate of West Point and arguably one...
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Finding the Perfect Picture
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My good friend Dewitt Jones, who was instrumental in helping me set the course for the book, just recently spoke at an...
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Know Your Finish Line
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Once you’re wealthy, is there ever a reason to become unwealthy again? According to Datamonitor, millionaires in...
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“I Enjoyed Being Shot”
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On the outskirts of Bogota, Columbia stands a company whose mission is to keep you alive. They sell golf shirts,...
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