TheLiveBigWay® Digest

Decision Architecture: Building Better Choices Elissa and Dave’s latest paper, Policy-Based Financial Planning as Decision Architecture, was just published in the December issue of the Journal for Financial Planning. Financial planning policies are compact decision rules that make it easier to stick with a consistent…

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With all the noise and turmoil that sometimes fills our daily lives (not to mention our daily newspapers), we all cherish the opportunity for quiet reflection and the joyful fellowship of family and friends that Thanksgiving Day brings us each year.  On this eve of another…

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Elissa on Financial Times Top 100 Women Financial Advisers List Financial Times, the venerable 126 year old London based newspaper, has named Elissa Buie to its inaugural FT Top 100 Women Financial Advisers list for 2014. In compiling the list, FT set out to identify the 100…

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Bad news can be like waves sweeping in and breaking along a sandy shore.  The quiet rumble as the watery walls form, break, and lap upon the shingle fades from our conscious awareness until the surge from a sudden harmonic convergence leaves us scrambling for higher ground.  It feels like one of those moments right now,…

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Dimensional Origins DFA founder David Booth likes to say, “it’s about ideas,” and we certainly don’t know of another fund company that has been more about ideas than Dimensional Fund Advisors. And not just any ideas, but the best thinking coming out of academic research…

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