by James Damschroder | January 14, 2025 | Uncategorized |
A thoughtful Investors’ Checklist of Diversifiable Risks I usually think about diversification as abstract dimensions, what some people call stat factors: they do not have discreet meaning individually, but collectively add it to measure the information /...
by James Damschroder | January 10, 2022 | Portfolio ThinkTank, Uncategorized |
You can analyze a portfolio better than 99% of professional investors using what I teach in this video. I used to sell this portfolio analytics software to professional investors for thousands of dollars and now I am doing my part to democratize investments by giving...
by James Damschroder | September 28, 2021 | Portfolio ThinkTank |
I don’t usually advocate trading due to the higher probability of loss ascribed to the predominance of cognitive bias and behavioural economics. Note from personal experience that an awareness of such risk is insufficient to curtail the risks. For those that...
by James Damschroder | April 21, 2020 | Portfolio ThinkTank |
The Dirty Secret of Diversification You probably heard mixed things about diversification; most of it good but not all of it. Amongst the detractors you can find content on the internet where Mark Cuban or Warren Buffett impune diversification. Please forgive their...
by James Damschroder | September 6, 2011 | Blog |
This chart tells us that the portfolio being analyzed has a variance 60% captured in only one dimension. Minimizing the percentage of the portfolio captured in the first dimension is a routine output of our investment process and greatly reduces the susceptibility of...
