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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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Tina Haapala |

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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I really get into the Olympics. It’s pretty much the only thing I watch on TV for a couple weeks every two years. One thing nice about the Rio games is that
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By Gary Silverman, CFP®

Last week we looked at a common situation: Instead of starting a retirement savings program when you first left school and began

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By Gary Silverman, CFP®

Presidential elections get a lot of people wondering about numbers: delegate numbers, Electoral College numbers, and stock numbers. I

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By Gary Silverman, CFP®

At some point in time, if you’ve been a good with money, someone (let’s call them a “friend”) might ask you to co-sign a loan for them

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