Our tendency to spin stories out of unrelated events leads some of us to believe horoscopes... and financial predictions.

Shoppers flock excitedly to sales, hoping to get coveted goods at a lower price. Why don't investors approach stock market sales the same way?

If your only goal in investing is making more money, you are setting yourself up for failure.

The financial news is full of shocking pronouncements of doom. Should you be worried yet?

Why doesn't the media run more good news? One view is that bad news sells. The danger comes when the emotions generated by bad news prompt investors to make changes to their portfolios.

Since the Singapore Summit ended, some market watchers and strategists have been predicting good times ahead. Others take a much more sceptical view. What should an investor do?

A philosopher once said that nothing is as difficult for people as not deceiving themselves. But while most self-delusions are relatively costless, those relating to investments come with a hefty price tag.

Wherever you are in your investing journey, at some point you’ll likely ask yourself some of the questions below. Listening to friends, family or the financial media is not the best way to get the right answers.

Just about every investor acknowledges the risk when investing in the market, but whenever bouts of volatility hit and headlines scream blood in the markets, logic flies out of the window and their flight or fight mode kicks in.

Can investors consistently time the market? Will you be able to tell when to buy or sell? In this video, Jim Davis from Dimensional Fund Advisors runs more than 780 tests on data from 15 stock markets to see what the evidence says.

How can investors guard against their instinct to cut-and-run when the market goes through rough patches?

Recent rhetoric between US President Trump and North Korea made many investors jumpy. With the possibility of a localised conflict occurring, what would be the impact on investors?

The human behavioural instincts that serve us well in most areas can be our downfall when it comes to investing. What methods can we use to stay the course even when our instincts tell us otherwise?

Markets have been reaching all-time highs. Is it time to sell? We look at the evidence and at what history has to tell us about past instances when markets also reached new highs.

Investors should not succumb to the noise and distractions from forecasts and predictions, but instead stick to a disciplined, systematic investment plan in order to have a higher probability of making money in the long run.

Many investors or potential investors we meet assume that once they put their money to work, they are guaranteed a return. Unfortunately, that is not how investing works.

In early 2016, as the stock market was correcting in earnest, market pundits and economists all but proclaimed the end of the current bull market. How did they get it so wrong?