Thank you so much to everyone who responded to my recent request for your opinions. Let me cut to the chase: 45% of you want me to write about the latest academic research; 36% want to hear about cautionary tales, and 19% want both – one person even suggested  that I should be able to combine the insights from academic research with cautionary tales. 

Cautionary tales are relatively easy to write since they are direct results of f my work with my clients. I often deal with things they did before I started working with them or things I wish they had discussed with me before acting. 

It is much more challenging to write about academic research. Most academic papers are very abstract and they are scattered throughout various journals. I must first survey these journals and extract useful insights from them. 

If writing a cautionary tale is an 1-hour job, writing about academic research could take 10 hours. But I will do that since that’s what you have asked me to do. And, quite frankly, writing about these studies will help me better manage my clients’ wealth.

Here are the journals that I will survey:

1. Journal of Finance
2. Journal of Financial Economics
3. Review of Financial Studies
4. Quarterly Journal of Economics
5. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
6. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
7. Journal of Behavioral Finance
8. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
9. Behavioral Finance and Economics
10. Journal of Economic Psychology
11. Review of Behavioral Finance
12. Cognitive Economics
13. American Economic Review
14. Journal of Monetary Economics
15. Journal of Economic Theory
16. Review of Economic Studies
17. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
18. Journal of International Economics
19. Economic Journal
20. Journal of Macroeconomics
21. Review of Economic Dynamics
22. Econometrica
23. Macroeconomic Dynamics

See, it’s a lot of work. 

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