Psychology

For more than two decades, passive investing has been a humble idea successfully marketed to the retail audience. It was a set-and-forget approach – not trying to outsmart the market but simply owning it. Now, according to a growing camp of market critics, passive funds have become something far...

The launch of Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone may have contributed significantly to America's declining birth rate, according to a new working paper published earlier this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). The study found that smartphone adoption may explain a...

Annie Duke, the former World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions winner and author of Thinking in Bets and Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, said investors often make costly mistakes by confusing lucky outcomes with strong investing decisions during speculative market rallies....