DAC Insights: Human Emotion & Investing…The Enemy Within

It is said that predictability is one of the foundations of all human behavior. Most of us in some way strive for consistency and predictable routines which causes us to react at times irrationally and or negatively to uncertainty. Thus, the volatility of the financial markets and human behavior are inevitably at odds both with fear and greed.

There have been many studies over the years trying to determine just how successful are individual investors. One of the most widely quoted research firms in this area, Dalbar, concluded a 20-year study which analyzed investors’ market timing successes and failures through their net purchases and sales of mutual fund shares. They call this the Guess Right Ratio…

DAC Insights: The Winds of Change… Summarizing Biden’s Proposed Tax Plan

On April 28th, President Biden called on Congress to enact the proposed $2.3 trillion, mostly infrastructure-related “American Jobs Plan” as well as a $1.8 trillion taxation proposal called the “American Families Plan”. To fund these plans, the former proposes increasing income taxes on corporate profits with the latter proposing income, estate and capital gains tax increases for wealthy individuals. Check out DAC’s summary of potential implications to address questions and/or concerns about how these proposals may affect your financial situation…