Ritholtz: Investors Should Focus On The Deer Not The Sharks

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Mark Melin
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Barry Ritholtz thinks investors are too worried they will be attacked by sharks and not concerned about death by running into a deer. The Chairman and Chief Investment Officer at Ritholtz Wealth Management, and creator of Bloomberg’s “Masters in Business” podcast, thinks retail investors are overly concerned with market crashes and not focused on what really detracts from performance. In a keynote speech at the Morningstar ETF Conference, he advises Financial Planners to focus their client’s attention on what really matters — high fees, excessive portfolio turnover, emotional decision making and a lack of discipline — and not being concerned about…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.