The so-called Oracle of Omaha begins by making the manifestly absurd assertion that tax rates do not influence investment behavior.
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My initial gains and timely profit taking to buy a house impacted my future investment behavior and led to future losses.
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Investors would do well to set aside these simplistic asset allocation questionnaires and canned computer programs used by advisors and replace them with some serious soul searching about their true financial needs, as well as reviewing their investment behavior during strong bull and bear market.
Even in Senate hearings that were highly critical of some of the large investment firms' behavior, there seems to have been an unwillingness to use the F-word (fraud).
Those are the very same kinds of policies that caused the systematically mistaken investment and increasingly risky behavior that built up over the years and precipitated the recent financial crisis.
This is typical of bear market recovery behavior, says David Katz, chief investment officer at Matrix Asset Advisors.
If the fluctuations in your investment portfolio are reduced, the impact of emotions and behavior on your account is also reduced.
Semel has scientists looking at data-mining, user interfaces and the behavior of microeconomies, which might include things like scanning a million investment chat rooms to predict larger stock price trends.
Data integration and management strategies are also needed to measure Hispanic buying power and trends in their behavior as consumers so that companies can allocate resources properly and measure their return on investment.
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"People will buy jewelry with an eye toward investment, " says Pam Danziger, president of Unity Marketing, which tracks consumer behavior.
The Federal Reserve can encourage this behavior by raising interest rates, which both increases the return to savings and lowers the demand for investment.
"Insiders' behavior is predictive, " says Nejat Seyhun, a finance professor at the University of Michigan and author of Investment Intelligence From Insider Trading.
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