When it comes to client portfolios, bigger may not be better

When it comes to client portfolios, bigger may not be better

Fri, Mar 28 2014

By Ed McCarthy

(Reuters) – Wealth managers routinely specify minimum sizes for new accounts, but far fewer advisers set maximums. Maybe they think “the bigger the better,” but that is not necessarily true. Read more of this post

Robert Shiller’s Nobel Knowledge; Robert Shiller on the art of stock-picking and the complex psychology of investors

Robert Shiller’s Nobel Knowledge

Yale University economics professor and Nobel laureate, Robert Shiller on the art of stock-picking and the complex psychology of investors

DAVID WESSEL

Updated March 26, 2014 11:02 a.m. ET

ROBERT SHILLER, A 67-YEAR-OLDYale University professor best known for his early, accurate prediction that U.S. house prices were a bubble just waiting to burst, has long worked at the intersection of psychology and economics. He recently shared the Nobel in economics for insights into why prices of stocks and houses fluctuate as they do, particularly work showing that markets move too much to be explained by rational investors responding to changing fundamentals. Read more of this post