Friday, June 22, 2018

Short Takes: Asset Location, Placebo Effect, and more

Yesterday, regulators went about 10% of the way to eliminating investment industry practices that silently drain money from Canadians’ retirement savings. Maybe in a few years they’ll put a stop to another 10%. Here are my posts for the past two weeks:

The Power of Passive Investing

Blockchain and Cryptocurrency News

Exploiting Innumeracy

Here are some short takes and some weekend reading:

Justin Bender explains that “it’s your post-tax asset allocation that determines your ending portfolio value.” As I explained in a post on Asset Location Errors, there are many people who get asset location decisions wrong because they mix up pre-tax asset allocation and post-tax asset allocation. Justin does an excellent job of explaining these issues in detail with clear examples.

Scott Alexander reports on a research finding that the placebo effect seems to be just mean reversion. There seem to be a great many “results” that owe their existence to poor use of statistics.

Canadian Couch Potato interviews Ben Rabidoux who has a sensible take on real estate as an investment. CCP also discusses how hedge fund returns don’t live up to their reputation, and explains the danger of having some initial success with stock-picking.

Big Cajun Man lists his 5 best investments. The last one might help me with my sore back.

1 comment:

  1. Reasonable rates available! Just got to wait until she is licensed. Thanks for the inclusion this week.

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