Impact or fees?

Impact or fees?

What if instead of paying billions in fees that too rarely add value, investors only used passive listed equity funds, and the billions saved in fees were used for projects that have real impact on environment and society? Let’s look into some numbers. Value not added...
Dining and investing – any difference?

Dining and investing – any difference?

You could say that when more restaurants pop up in a city, the easier it is, at some point, to find reasonably priced restaurants that offer good food and service – good on an absolute basis. The amount of competition does not reduce the chances that a new...
Economic Firefighting

Economic Firefighting

We are experiencing the highest energy (power and gas) prices ever seen, supply chains are being disrupted worldwide, shortages of labour from drivers to waiters has been around for months. Can we consistently predict such dynamics? If not, how can we deal with such...
DEBIASING

DEBIASING

One of the goals of financial (and more specifically investment) coaching is to implement a process of debiasing. Awareness is already an important step, but we generally need to do more effort and actively work cognitively to reduce our biases – I am not saying...
Jorginho, Kane, decisions and risk

Jorginho, Kane, decisions and risk

Even if we never shot a penalty in a Euro-cup final, we can try to imagine how tough it must be psychologically. Jorginho against Spain may have given us the illusion that it is easy – this impression was then reversed in the final against England. Good for Italy how...
“Meme stocks” and biases

“Meme stocks” and biases

In the last months we have been strongly exposed through the media to the so-called “meme stocks” and to the, at least assumed, fight between retail traders and professional short sellers like hedge funds. Apart from the social and ethical aspects that have been...