Daniel Kahneman: Minimize Investors’ Regrets by Splitting Portfolios
A recent article in ThinkAdvisor chronicles a discussion with Daniel Kahneman (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, 2002) at the MorningStar Investment Conference in Chicago (June 11-13, 2018) about the need to find strategies that will minimize investors’ regrets. He theorized, based on Prospect Theory, that investors would be more comfortable with portfolios that consisted of two distinct parts: one for stable investments, the other for riskier investments. Probably without realizing it, Dr. Kahneman was advocating for dedicated portfolio theory as applied to personal finance. Click here to read our reflection >>
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Unconstrained bond funds are being pitched as a way around rising rates but they don’t seem to be holding up their end of the bargain very well; maybe it’s time to look at individual bonds. 
For retirees hoping to sleep at night, “laddering” bonds ensures that each year a batch of individual bonds will mature, providing the income needed for that year. There’s another option: defined-maturity bond ETFs, which resemble individual bonds right up to their distributions and maturity dates. But laddering with either ETFs or individual bonds brings its own set of trade-offs.