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Mutual Fund Investing: Where Herd Mentality Still Roams

Posted on May 22, 2011 by petillo — No Comments ↓

It has been decades since behavioral economics took hold as a science of investor actions. Designed to study the irrational decisions that we all are apparently hard-wired to make, the field grew into a respectable and well-quoted discipline. Which is…

Tagged with: 401ks, auto-enrollment, behavioral economics, commentary, commodities, economy, emerging markets, financial markets, herd mentality, investments, investors, markets, mutual funds
Posted in 401k, economics, financial planning, Mutual Fund Investing, Profitable Investments, Repercussions: A Retirement Review, Retirement Planning Target 2025

Retirement Planning: So You Say You Want a Revolution, Well…

Posted on October 2, 2010 by petillo — 1 Comment ↓

If you are paying attention, you or someone close to you is in serious financial decline. And even if you have resources that you have now been able to calculate in both present and future terms, you can’t help them.…

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Posted in commentary, economics, Repercussions: A Retirement Review

On this Labor Day

Posted on September 6, 2010 by petillo — No Comments ↓

Feel free to read my (what is turning out to be an annual Labor Day) editorial in the Oregonian that was published today. What Labor has Become On Monday, Sept. 5, 1882, some 10,000 people played hooky from their jobs and…

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