Category: Guiding Principles
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Emotions Are an Investor’s Worst Enemy
Humans are hardwired for survival, but this innate motivation to stay safe can be fundamentally at odds with investment success. Emotional responses to market volatility—especially fear and greed—can trigger impulsive…
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You Alone Are Accountable for Your Financial Situation
Since Snider Advisors opened its doors in September of 2002, we have operated on Six Guiding Principles. The first of those principles is that you alone are accountable for you…
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The Number One Job of Your Portfolio
In our continuation of the discussion of Snider Advisors’ Guiding Principles, we will examine the principle that the number one job of your portfolio is to produce a paycheck. ERISA…
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Investing is Not the Same Thing as Saving
A mistake far too many people make is to invest money they should be saving and save money that they should be investing. In our continuation of the discussion of…