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Investing Is Not a Game

02/01/2021 11:50 PM By Mike Halper, CFP®, MPAS®, SE-AWMA®, CDAA, CBDA - Comment(s)
Investing Is Not a Game
Are you out of breath trying to keep up with the breaking news about GameStop and all the other red-hot trades o’ the day? Here’s a synopsis (to date), and what it means to you as an investor.

What Is Correlation (and Why Would You Care)?

01/30/2021 02:09 PM By Mike Halper, CFP®, MPAS®, SE-AWMA®, CDAA, CBDA - Comment(s)
What Is Correlation (and Why Would You Care)?
Here at Escient Financial, we try to keep the financial jargon to a minimum. But even where we may succeed, you’re likely to encounter …

Three Upside-Down Investment Insights

01/29/2021 09:00 AM By Mike Halper, CFP®, MPAS®, SE-AWMA®, CDAA, CBDA - Comment(s)
Three Upside-Down Investment Insights
Often, all you need to be an excellent investor is a healthy dose of common sense: A penny saved is a penny earned. …

Evidence-Based Investing + Indexing: Making a Good Thing Even Better

01/26/2021 09:00 AM By Mike Halper, CFP®, MPAS®, SE-AWMA®, CDAA, CBDA - Comment(s)
Evidence-Based Investing + Indexing: Making a Good Thing Even Better
As the public grows increasingly familiar with “passive” or “index” investing, it’s becoming easier for individual investors to gain cost-effective exposure to …

What Is Asset Allocation?

01/23/2021 09:00 AM By Mike Halper, CFP®, MPAS®, SE-AWMA®, CDAA, CBDA - Comment(s)
What Is Asset Allocation?
Asset allocation. It’s so ingrained in how we manage our clients’ investment portfolios, we talk about it all the time. But what …

What Has Evidence-Based Investing Done for Me Lately?

01/20/2021 09:00 AM By Mike Halper, CFP®, MPAS®, SE-AWMA®, CDAA, CBDA - Comment(s)
What Has Evidence-Based Investing Done for Me Lately?
As Eugene Fama has explained, “You should use market data to understand markets better, not to say this or that hypothesis is literally true or false. No model is ever strictly true. The real criterion should be ...

The Essence of Evidence-Based Investing

01/18/2021 09:00 AM By Mike Halper, CFP®, MPAS®, SE-AWMA®, CDAA, CBDA - Comment(s)
The Essence of Evidence-Based Investing
As with any risky venture, there are no guarantees that you’ll earn the returns you’re aiming for, or even recover your stake. This leads us to why we so strongly favor evidence-based investing. So what does evidence-based investing entail?
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