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Category: Things That Matter

Wall Street’s Merry Pranks: Things that Matter #4

The libertarian paternalism of a nudge culture in finance has created an industry of investors who care about fees but have forgotten about taxes, tra…
Rusty Guinn December 12, 2017
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The Myth of Market In-Itself: Things That Matter #3, Pt. 2

The behaviors that influence markets must be considered in context of archetypes, the languages and identities which group investors every bit as much…
Rusty Guinn November 9, 2017
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The Myth of Market In-Itself: Things That Matter #3, Pt. 1

Benjamin Graham famously said that the market is a voting machine in the short run, and a weighing machine in the long run. This is a right-sounding i…
Rusty Guinn September 28, 2017
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You Still Have Made a Choice: Things that Matter #2

Diversification is clearly one of the things that matter. Unfortunately, most investors pursue the meme of diversification! instead of the real thing,…
Rusty Guinn August 10, 2017
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Whom Fortune Favors: Things that Matter #1, Pt. 2

Part 1 of this note highlighted the supremacy of the risk decision in portfolio construction. In this follow-up, Rusty observes that many investors ma…
Rusty Guinn July 27, 2017
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President Camacho

Whom Fortune Favors: Things that Matter #1, Pt. 1

Of all the decisions you make as an investor, how much risk you take outweighs all of them. It is more important than costs, more important than diver…
Rusty Guinn July 6, 2017
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Jesse After His Chili P Phase

Chili P is My Signature: Things that Don’t Matter #5

The second moral license from a wise emphasis on passive investing is spending inordinate amounts of time on tilts, trades and tactical ideas that wil…
Rusty Guinn June 9, 2017
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Oliver Bird

And They Did Live by Watchfires: Things that Don’t Matter #4

For the bored (read: profitable) investor, the bias to action is a constant threat. As we become more passive in our strategies, the moral license to …
Rusty Guinn May 19, 2017
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