A few weeks back, I talked about the good-is-better-than-perfect principle. A close corollary is to approach financial decisions incrementally. What do I mean by that? An example is dollar cost averaging, whereby a sum of money is invested in regular increments rather than all at once. Does [...]
Intersections
Back in the 1950s, economists Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller developed a theory that, even today, is taught in virtually every finance class. To understand this theory, suppose you’re running a company and want to build a new factory. To raise money for this project, you generally have two [...]
Rethinking
Recently I started reading the new book Think Again by Adam Grant. This got me thinking about all the ways that, over the years, conversations with clients have led me to look at things through different lenses. Below are several such topics: There’s one important financial question that stumps [...]
The good and the perfect
Last week, The Wall Street Journal carried a seemingly innocuous article by Derek Horstmeyer, a finance professor at George Mason University. Horstmeyer described an analysis he and his team had recently conducted. The question they sought to answer: Could investors achieve better results in their [...]
Giving
Financial planning is, for the most part, straightforward. You want to save enough for the future, then avoid a shortfall by investing those savings wisely. Pretty much every other topic in the world of personal finance—from asset allocation to taxes to safe withdrawal rates—can be viewed through [...]
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