Stocktake: Reasons not to be cheerful about stocks
One strategist says he has never seen market so highly valued in a time of such uncertainty
Global stocks: what’s cheap and what’s not?
Health threat posed by coronavirus means cheap stocks could still fall in value
Emotional time travel: Will you handle the next bear market?
We should be more understanding of bad decisions made in hot emotional states
Investors benefit from less stress and better information
A fact-based world view is more useful to investors than the siren song of news
Are record corporate profit margins sustainable?
Bears see this as temporary but bulls think profit margins have risen to a permanently higher plateau
Investing: why it feels good to conform
Is it really that difficult to go against the herd? In a nutshell, yes
Stock markets, career risk and the safety of the herd
Why is herding such a problem in financial markets?
Herd mentality is driving stock markets
Stocktake: despite strong market rebound, stocks likely to retest recent lows
Guesswork masquerades as expertise in stock market forecasts
Expert predictions tend to be no more accurate than chance, research indicates
The best investment strategy? Doing nothing
‘Don’t just do something, stand there’ might be best, like Buffett’s ‘benign neglect, bordering on sloth’
Are active funds a better bet in bad markets?
Stock-pickers promise gains in next slump despite years of underperformance by funds
Is it time to ‘just say no’ to the US stock market?
The last time fund managers were nearly as concerned as now was in the late 1990s
Growing number of stocks fall into corrections
Stocktake: market breadth is a crucial indicator of underlying market health
Volatility in the markets not the monster many make it out to be
Sense of perspective required to put ‘big, scary numbers into context’
A friendship of opposites that changed our view of human thinking
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky paved the way for behavioural finance
Dotcom bubble: lessons to learn from the greatest market mania of recent times
The bubble burst in March 2000, proving that sometimes investors go bananas and rationality goes out the window
Can the ageing bull market survive 2015 and beyond?
An increasing number of strategists believe we are in a secular bull market, with any decline likely to prove fleeting
Stocktake: Bulls continue to buy the dips
Stocks soared after Federal Reserve said it would be ‘patient’ with hike rates
‘Hideously expensive’ stocks leave no choice for investors
Investment managers are struggling to give advice as even emerging markets don’t look attractive
Could maximising shareholder value be the ‘dumbest idea in the world’ ?
Companies and executives accused of moving from a value-creation approach to one of value extraction
Can happiness and money mix?
The link between wealth and happiness is less strong than commonly assumed, but research suggests clever spending may yield benefits
US stock valuations bode ill for long-term returns
Bulls are not convinced by indicators showing that the US market is severely overvalued
Six reasons why fund managers can’t beat the markets
Most fund managers underperform their benchmarks and this is likely to continue
Watching the detectives of the stock market can help to answer questions
Are short sellers immoral parasites or clever analysts who help to expose ‘frauds, fads and failures’?
Keep it simple, stupid – because degree of difficulty doesn’t count
Given that hedge funds, have underperformed stock markets for each of the last five years, why do we still pay their exorbitant fees?
Why thinking by numbers trumps intuition in investing
Quantitative screening techniques have shownit’s time for investors to get nerdy and ditch opinions
Model investment behaviour falls foul of that age-old handicap: intuition
When it comes to selecting progressive stocks too many of us find ‘cognitive effort’ too much bother
The ‘psychology of stupidity’ in decisions on investments
A lifetime of research into dodgy decision-making has not helped Daniel Kahneman see the error of his ways
Stocktake: Investors urged to grin and bear yo-yo market
Emerging market stresses may be the story de jour
Investor beware: don’t buy into the irrational exuberance of market analysts
Studies of share performance indicate most investors would be better off tossing a coin
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