by Jason Apollo Voss | 29 05 2012 | Blog, News & Events
I was on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) today for the first time courtesy of CFA Institute. That is my colleague Len Costa standing next to me. Boy do those folks at the NYSE do client relations well. Amazing white-glove treatment of their...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 29 05 2012 | Blog
In finance even basic assumptions — like which technique to use to calculate prices for such financial instruments as derivatives or how you calculate rates of return for assets — determine how you see the world. If the techniques have flaws, then your understanding...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 17 05 2012 | Blog
Today Jason Apollo Voss, author of The Intuitive Investor was privileged to be interviewed by Simon Jack of the BBC’s #1 ranked radio show, the Today programme. The subject was Facebook’s (ticker symbol: FB) initial public offering (IPO). Thanks very...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 17 05 2012 | Blog
Three months ago, I said that investors and journalists had largely moved on from the European sovereign debt crisis. Yet in the past month, the crisis has regained prominence in the forefront of the consciousness of pundits. Interestingly, most of the concern is...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 16 05 2012 | Blog
Back in 2007, Wall Street Journal investing columnist Jason Zweig contributed a fascinating essay entitled “Fear” to a monograph, Behavioral Finance and Investment Management, published by the Research Foundation of CFA Institute. The essay was adapted from...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 14 05 2012 | Blog
Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman is one of the founding fathers of behavioral finance. Although he holds a doctorate in psychology, not economics, he has had a profound effect on the dismal science. These days economic actors — that’s you and me — are not seen as...
