Investors should not succumb to the noise and distractions from forecasts and predictions, but instead stick to a disciplined, systematic investment plan in order to have a higher probability of making money in the long run.

In Warren Buffett’s latest shareholder letter, he again let loose on the investment community, in particular high-fee active managers – especially hedge fund managers, whom he claims do not provide value to investors.

Many investors or potential investors we meet assume that once they put their money to work, they are guaranteed a return. Unfortunately, that is not how investing works.

Companies and countries have used markets for years to raise money from public investors. In return, investors receive compensation for the risk they take. But not all companies - or countries - are the same.

Do you know how much money your investments could lose? What is VaR and why it is better than the investment industry’s favourite metric - volatility?

Wouldn’t it be great to know in advance whether the stock market will rise or fall and position ourselves to profit from it? In reality, nobody can get it right - not even the giants in investing. We show why it is detrimental to one’s health and wealth to play this fool’s game.

Every year brings its share of surprises. But how many of us could have imagined that 2016 would see the Chicago Cubs win the World Series, Bob Dylan receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, Donald Trump elected president, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average close out the year a whisker away from 20,000?

In early 2016, as the stock market was correcting in earnest, market pundits and economists all but proclaimed the end of the current bull market. How did they get it so wrong?

Arnold Zwicky defined the Recency Illusion as ”the belief that things you have noticed only recently are in fact recent”. How does this illusion affect your investing decisions?

Our analysis of markets over a 15 year period shows that markets go up more often than come down. In fact, the best market days typically follow a correction.

People often follow the herd. This can be devastating in investing.

Diversification has been called the only free lunch in investing. But can investors do even better?

The market events of January 2016 provide an opportunity to examine several questions important to investors and revisit some fundamental principles of investing in capital markets.

Jason Zweig best described forecasting as an attempt to predict the unknowable by measuring the irrelevant. Unfortunately, that is what almost all financial institutions in this world are set up to do.

Don’t we all love a good discount? Yet when there is a huge discount in stocks, people run away! Why is this so?

How many times do we have a certain mandate, only to switch to something else when we hear of a good idea from a magazine, a friend or the news?

Contrary to the beliefs of some investors, dramatic changes in security prices are not a sign that the financial system is broken but rather what we would expect to see if markets are working properly.