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By Gary Silverman, CFP®

The election is over. Anyone who knows me also knows that I wasn’t in favor of either candidate. For reasons I’ll cover sometime next

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By Gary Silverman, CFP®

Today marks the end of our two-month look at what makes smart people do dumb things with their investing. It grew from my

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By Gary Silverman, CFP®

Welcome to the 6th installment of our exploration of smart people doing dumb things with their investments. We’ve been tracing the

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By Gary Silverman, CFP®

This is week 5 in a series of my observations of what causes intelligent people to do dumb things with their portfolios. Last week we

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By Gary Silverman, CFP®

We’re in our fourth week of looking at what makes smart people do dumb things with their investing. So far we’ve seen how Recency Bias

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By Gary Silverman, CFP®

We are taking a break from our "Dumb" series of articles looking at what makes investors do stupid things even if they are otherwise

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By Gary Silverman, CFP®

We’re on the third week of a look at what makes smart people do dumb things (at least with investments). Last week I introduced the

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By Gary Silverman, CFP®

Last week I introduced you to my concept of dumb: Namely the tendency for really smart people to do dumb things with their investment

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By Gary Silverman, CFP®

A couple of times in the last few years I’ve talked about a Vanguard study on the value of financial advisers. According to that study

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