Intellectual Finance
Asset AllocationBusiness Development Company
The 90% Rule: Why BDCs are Legally Obligated to Make You Rich
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The Incubation Trick: How Funds Secretly Create 10 Funds Just to Market the One That Got Lucky
Behavioral FinanceEditors Pick
Why Your Brain Treats a $100 Bill and $100 of Bitcoin Like Two Different Currencies
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The Real Cost of a Trade Surplus (and Why No One Will Admit It)
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The Math of Recovery: Why a 50% Loss Needs a 100% Gain
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Bordeaux vs. Bitcoin: The Unlikely Investment That Doesn’t Crash on a Tuesday
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Investing
Why a “Strong Economy” Can Actually Be Bad News for Your Portfolio
Everyone loves good economic news. Rising GDP, falling unemployment, consumer spending through the roof. Politicians celebrate it, financial commentators cheer ...
The Case for Stop Chasing Alpha: Why the Sharpe Ratio is the Only Metric That Matters
Many investors are playing the wrong game. They obsess over returns like kids comparing Halloween candy hauls, bragging about how ...
How to Build a Portfolio Immune to Noise (5 Steps to Escaping the Financial Herd Mentality)
The financial markets have a peculiar way of making intelligent people feel stupid and reckless people feel like geniuses. At ...
If You Can’t Calculate NAV, You Shouldn’t Be Investing in Funds
Net Asset Value is absurdly simple to calculate. You take what a fund owns, subtract what it owes, and divide ...
International Finance
The Real Cost of a Trade Surplus (and Why No One Will Admit It)
Every country wants to be a winner. And in the grand theater of international economics, nothing signals victory quite like ...
Funding Currency Hierarchy: Why JPY and CHF Are Not Interchangeable for Carry Trade
The financial world loves to categorize. We sort currencies into buckets labeled “safe haven” or “high yield” as if they ...
Is the Bank of Japan Actually the World’s Biggest Hedge Fund?
Picture a central bank. You probably imagine something austere. Gray suited officials poring over inflation data. Sober discussions about interest ...
Financial Subcultures
From $0 to Financial Freedom in 7 Years: The Unconventional Roadmap in FIRE Movement
The FIRE movement promises something most financial advice doesn’t dare to: actual freedom in exchange for actual sacrifice. Not the …
Behavioral Finance
Dopamine vs. Dividends: The Neurological Reason You Can’t Stop Day Trading
Your brain doesn’t care about your retirement account. It cares about what happened in the last three seconds. This fundamental …
Emoji Economics: Can a Rocket Ship Icon Actually Predict a Rally?
We live in an age where a picture of an eggplant can mean something other than ...
The Availability Heuristic: Why One Bad News Story Outweighs Ten Years of Growth
Your brain is a terrible financial advisor. Not because it lacks intelligence or processing power, but ...
Must Read
Editors PickMust Read
Bordeaux vs. Bitcoin: The Unlikely Investment That Doesn’t Crash on a Tuesday
There’s something profoundly absurd about comparing a bottle of fermented grapes to a string of mathematical code. Yet here we ...
Behavioral FinanceEditors Pick
Forget FOMO: The Real Danger Is Loving Your Stocks Too Much
Everyone talks about FOMO. The fear of missing out supposedly drives investors to make stupid decisions, chasing returns they see ...
Editors PickFinancial Economics
The Bitcoin Problem: Where Does Crypto Fit into a Modern Portfolio Theory Strategy?
Harry Markowitz won a Nobel Prize in 1990 for work he published in 1952. That work, Modern Portfolio Theory, changed ...