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How to avoid a common investment mistake

February 1, 2025 — If you hear a professional investor talk about a trade that taught them a lot, prick up your ears. Usually, this is code for “a time I lost an absolutely colossal amount of money”, and you are in for one of the better stories about how nance works at the coalface.

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How much happiness does money buy?

December 27, 2024 — They say that money can't buy happiness...but if you could, how much would you be willing to pay for it?

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Introducing P-CAPE: Incorporating the Dividend Payout Ratio Improves Our Favorite Estimator of Stock Market Returns

June 19, 2024 — The Cyclically-Adjusted Price Earnings ratio, also known as CAPE, has served many investors well - but here at Elm, we think it might be time for an update.

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Merton Share Derivations: What's in your denominator?

May 2, 2024 — Balancing one's portfolio between risky and risk-less assets is no small feat, but there's one rule of thumb that we've found to be largely reliable: the Merton Share.

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Sharpe’s Arithmetic and the Risk Matters Hypothesis

December 1, 2023 — Sharpe’s Arithmetic may seem strange at first, but many see it as being one of the main drivers of the massive growth of index investing.