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		<title>Socially Responsible Investments and Investors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Santa Clara University, my university, is a Catholic, Jesuit University, and its endowment fund follows its values: the sacredness of life, human rights, opposition to discrimination, opposition to nuclear weapons, and protection of the environment. We want our university’s endowment to earn high returns to support our students, faculty and staff. Do we sacrifice investment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatinvestorswant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14688759&amp;post=288&amp;subd=whatinvestorswant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the Mental Buck</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should money funds be allowed to continue to price their shares by &#8220;buck&#8221; accounting, whereby the price of each share is fixed at one dollar? Or should they be compelled to price them by &#8220;mark-to-market&#8221; accounting, common to all other mutual funds, whereby changes in the market value of shares move their prices higher or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatinvestorswant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14688759&amp;post=283&amp;subd=whatinvestorswant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding What Investors Really Want In 60 Seconds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mstatman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Behavioral Finance]]></category>
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		<title>What&#8217;s good about taxes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mstatman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few of us like paying taxes and most of us have blueprints for ideal tax systems in which we pay less. The message we send to our elected officials was summarized succinctly by Senator Russell B. Long: “Don’t tax you, don’t tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree!” Our distaste for taxes can be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatinvestorswant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14688759&amp;post=275&amp;subd=whatinvestorswant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Temptations of Plus and the Reality of Minus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mstatman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Behavioral Finance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Schwab&#8217;s YieldPlus funds promised returns higher than those of bonds at only slightly higher risk. Schwab classified the funds as ultrashort bond funds yet their holding were concentrated in mortgage backed securities which were decimated in the financial crisis. The story of YieldPlus is only one example of the sad consequences of investors&#8217; perennial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatinvestorswant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14688759&amp;post=271&amp;subd=whatinvestorswant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why New Year’s resolutions often fail: A guest post by Kees Koedijk and Alfred Slager</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mstatman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The stock market]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Kees Koedijk and Alfred Slager for this guest post. Visit their blog here. Top 10 stocks and funds to invest in for 2011 circulate widely. It’s a recurring theme with a predictable storyline at the end of the year. The analyst: “Well, we indicated that stock XYZ should be the best performing one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatinvestorswant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14688759&amp;post=267&amp;subd=whatinvestorswant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s next in 2011?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you wondering what’s next in 2011? McGraw-Hill Professional the publisher of my book What Investors Really Want asked a few of their authors (including me) what we think the New Year will bring. They then collected these ideas and predictions into a thought-leadership e-Book, aptly titled What’s Next 2011 that covers the business outlook [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatinvestorswant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14688759&amp;post=259&amp;subd=whatinvestorswant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Tour</title>
		<link>http://whatinvestorswant.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/blog-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to all those who agreed to host me on my blog tour! Susan B. Weiner&#8217;s Blog on Investment Writing Fisher Financial Strategies Canadian Capitalist The Rational Walk Global Economic Intersection Women on the Move Money Science Independent Investor Financial Tales Portfolioist Canadian Dream: Free at 45 Canadian Finance Blog Gen X Finance Investment Beliefs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatinvestorswant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14688759&amp;post=193&amp;subd=whatinvestorswant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behavioral Finance in Social Security</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mstatman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We want freedom from the fear of poverty, yet we also want hope for riches. Government provides the first in Social Security and the second in lotteries. Social Security benefits alleviate some of our fear of poverty, and lottery tickets carry some hope for riches. The Deficit Panel, chaired by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatinvestorswant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14688759&amp;post=197&amp;subd=whatinvestorswant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The gold rush of fear</title>
		<link>http://whatinvestorswant.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/the-gold-rush-of-fear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In anxious times people seek cover in gold,&#8221; wrote the New York Times in November 2010, as the price of an ounce of gold crossed the $1,400 bar. &#8220;People are coming in to buy 50 or 100 coins at a time, which is hefty for individuals,&#8221; said a coin broker. &#8220;It&#8217;s not just rich people, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatinvestorswant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14688759&amp;post=180&amp;subd=whatinvestorswant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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