Skills That Separate You as an Investment Manager: Scaling

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Nov 18, 2014 in Best of the Blog, Blog, Skills That Separate You as an Investment Manager | 0 comments Previous editions of this series on Skills That Separate You as an Investment Manager have focused on introspection, creativity, intuition, decisiveness, absolute vs. relative decision making, forthrightness, and discernment. This month’s edition is about a powerful skill I initially discussed at length in my book The Intuitive Investor that literally changes how you see the entire information...
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The Intuitive Investor: How to Tune into Intuitive Sensations

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Oct 28, 2014 in Best of the Blog, Blog, Intuitive Assessment | 0 comments So far in this series I have discussed the importance of intuition, a model that helps frame the intuitive process, and intuition’s most important skill: non-attachment. Recall I said our experience of intuition is just like that of our other senses. First there is a sensation, then that sensation must be translated into recognition. Yet, how do you tune into intuitive sensations? What the heck...
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Skills That Separate You as an Investment Manager: Discernment

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Oct 7, 2014 in Best of the Blog, Blog, Skills That Separate You as an Investment Manager | 0 comments Previous posts in this series have included important, fairly high-level skills that separate you as an investment manager — such as introspection, creativity, intuition, and decisiveness. But what about a skill that lets you roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty? Discernment is such a skill. Many investment managers and research analysts think that one of their responsibilities is to...
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The Intuitive Investor: Non-Attachment Is the Key Intuition Skill

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Sep 24, 2014 in Best of the Blog, Blog, Intuitive Assessment | 0 comments In my last column I promised to share how to bring intuition more into your conscious awareness and how to translate it into something useful. Recall that in “The Intuitive Investor: A Simple Model of Intuition,” I said intuition is sensory stimulus followed by interpretation. I also said that if intuition fails an investor, it is usually because of poor awareness and poor...
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How Meditators Can Overcome Behavioral Finance Biases

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Sep 16, 2014 in Best of the Blog, Blog | 0 comments While behavioral finance identifies and describes cognitive errors, it provides few remedies. In fact, when Daniel Kahneman was asked what could be done to overcome behavioral biases, he told delegates at CFA Institute’s 2012 Annual Conference: “Very little; I have 40 years of experience with this, and I still commit these errors. Knowing the errors is not the recipe to avoiding them.” The major...
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The Scottish Secession Vote Is More Important Than You Think

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Sep 11, 2014 in Best of the Blog, Blog, Intuitive Assessment | 0 comments Thursday, 18 September 2014, is the date of the Scottish secession vote. Most finance commentators are focused on the likely huge economic considerations. Yet, this vote is far more important than you may think. The secession vote, even if it fails, signals the beginning of the end of the preeminence of the nation-state. Here is why: The idea of the nation-state is a relatively recent phenomenon...
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