Biography
Paul McCaffrey is the editor of Enterprising Investor at CFA Institute. Previously, he served as an editor at the H.W. Wilson Company. His writing has appeared in Financial Planning and DailyFinance, among other publications. He holds a BA in English from Vassar College and an MA in journalism from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Journalism.
Dow 36,000, crypto, Brexit, GameStop, pandemic. Imagine you uttered these terms back in the autumn of 2011, when Enterprising Investor first launched. What would they have evoked?
Since its launch in 2011, Enterprising Investor has showcased the scholarship of behavioral finance’s top luminaries as well as its critics.
Diversification is just as critical to career portfolios as it is to investment portfolios.
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What Enterprising Investor articles most resonated with readers in 2020?
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"The best way that you can be a decision maker in this type of environment is not to demand certainty."
How can behavioral finance inform our response to the coronavirus? Meir Statman gave his perspective on this and other questions.