The real problem
with home bias is investors who might have say 75 % + invested in their home market, and aren't even conscious of the colossal bet / risk they're actually taking...
In other words, the Chinese market has a bigger influence on the US market, which goes hand in hand
with the home bias theory.
Not exact matches
These more general
biases and hurdles, along
with the issue of male confusion at women's needs and problems, help explain why femaleentrepreneurs take
home a pathetically small share of venture capital — less than 5 percent.
By historical standards, this implies sustained double - digit losses on bond holdings, subpar growth in developed markets, and balance sheet risks for banking systems
with a large
home bias.
With U.S. stocks rallying, investors may be tempted to stick with a home country b
With U.S. stocks rallying, investors may be tempted to stick
with a home country b
with a
home country
bias.
From a behavioral finance standpoint, examine your clients» portfolios
with a careful eye toward whether or not the
home bias has tilted their allocations too heavily toward domestic investments.
When speaking
with your clients about international opportunities and the potential benefits of diversification, keep in mind that baby boomers are particularly at risk from the
home bias.
When speaking
with your clients, keep in mind that baby boomers are particularly at risk from the
home bias.
I have about 22 % of my portfolio
with international exposure, but I think Canadians have even more
bias towards
home country (especially
with the preferential dividend tax treatment that Canadian dividend paying stocks get).
It's easier for Canadian investors to achieve a portfolio
with substantial
home bias because, unlike the U.S., Japan and Europe, Canada's economy and financial markets are a relatively small share of the overall pie.
Combine Corn Nation's big swing number
with its
bias rating and it's clear that our Nebraska blog is bullish on the Huskers» win over Penn State at
home.
As we are an offensive
biased club and armed
with greater self belief — all this plays into our strengths and we by and large succeed in winning and accruing points — although not without giving 90 minutes worth of heart palpitations to the
home supporters.
More especially (and probably in a little
biased way) I love how my 6 year old
with Autism manages to sit wriggle free for the entire show (wonder if I could buy one of those seats for
home?).
Despite other reviews I had read, there is no anti-family
bias (everyone was very gracious
with our baby and catered to our needs - Our baby liked the hotel crib better than the crib at
home).
Views are particularly polarised in the United States,
with interventions and costs of hospital births escalating and midwives involved
with home births being denied the ability to be lead professionals in hospital,
with admitting and discharge privileges.5 Although several Canadian medical societies6 7 and the American Public Health Association8 have adopted policies promoting or acknowledging the viability of
home births, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continues to oppose it.9 Studies on
home birth have been criticised if they have been too small to accurately assess perinatal mortality, unable to distinguish planned from unplanned
home births accurately, or retrospective
with the potential of
bias from selective reporting.
It is not «
biased» to tell women that as a low risk, middle class white woman, if they opt to have their full term, singleton baby at
home with a CPM, using MANA's own statistics, their baby is almost 5 times more likely to die than if they give birth in the hospital.
The other one is how to use your
home made
bias tape to hem
with and again
with minimum ironing.
As Mansky speaks
with relatives, televisions broadcast news reports in the background, making us aware of the stream of
biased information beamed into citizen
homes daily.
Home visits support mindset shifts and this family engagement strategy is aligned
with evidence - based approaches that reduce negative implicit
bias.
Teachers were never asked to compare their own scripts
with another school's scripts to avoid any possibility of
home bias.
That's why Teach Plus is offering a
home for teachers interested in an organization, as Coggins puts it, «
with a
bias toward high performers» — eduspeak for wanting to support and reward the best rather than focus on defending the worst.
That training and the subsequent
home visits have been identified in a recent study by RTI International as an effective strategy for increasing teachers» sense of empathy and reducing their negative implicit
biases, as well as helping parents to feel more positive and confident about interacting
with school officials.
The A6's suspension pairs
with Audi's rear -
biased Quattro all - wheel drive (40/60 torque split, front / rear), which reveals its secret sporty driving nature only on favorite s - curves coming
home from work.
I can't think of anything that I've done an about face on, but one thing I am sticking
with is my conviction to minimize the
home country
bias.
In my recent interview
with Meir Statman, author of What Investors Really Want, I asked the professor why we suffer from
home bias.
The bottom line: VXC is a useful ETF for anyone looking to wipe out
home - country
bias with a single holding.
It's easier for Canadian investors to achieve a portfolio
with substantial
home bias because, unlike the U.S., Japan and Europe, Canada's economy and financial markets are a relatively small share of the overall pie.
One of the reasons investors tend to invest most of their money at
home (
home country
bias) is because they feel comfortable
with their knowledge of the political climate.
As mentioned often here over the past year, people
with too much maple in their accounts paid a high price for that
home - country
bias.
First, investors exhibit a pronounced «
home bias» French and Poterba (1991) report that investors in the USA, Japan and the UK allocate 94 %, 98 %, and 82 % of their overall equity investment, respectively, to domestic equities explain this fact on rational grounds [Lewis (1999)-RSB- Indeed, normative portfolio choice models that take human capital into account typically advise investors to short their national stock market, because of its high correlation
with their human capital [Baxter and Jermann (1997)-RSB-.
There's other benefits: I'm squeezing more investment themes / asset classes into my portfolio — so I end up
with far less room for individual holdings, vs. investors who focus exclusively on (regular) equities (& possibly suffer from
home bias).
I am well aware that I have very little control over the equities market and thus I am very careful to diversify globally and not be caught out
with home country
bias.
I have about 22 % of my portfolio
with international exposure, but I think Canadians have even more
bias towards
home country (especially
with the preferential dividend tax treatment that Canadian dividend paying stocks get).
I certainly have
home bias but don't plan to leave the US so I will go down
with the ship.
«
Home country
bias is a common problem
with investors,» says DeGoey, who recommends Jeff lower his Canadian equity holdings to 18 % from 41 %.
To me,
home bias is a more unique / significant risk,
with some (perhaps small) probability of catastrophe (which unfortunately is often amplified in the rest of your life / finances in the worst case scenario), and something I want to avoid.
Despite
home bias risk, I'm comfortable
with having, say, 3 good Irish stock picks in my portfolio.
Is there evidence (I suppose using the analysis tools you mention) that portfolios
with geographical allocations mirroring the size of the respective markets IS in fact a lower risk strategy than a portfolio showing
bias towards your
home nation?
Although at times, I have been accused of being
biased toward this remarkable species, I am certainly not unique in my opinion — there are at least 40 percent of households throughout the United States that share their
home with kitties.
Alternatively, the owners in these «busier»
homes (
with several dogs or children) may not have had sufficient time to observe the dogs» behaviour, causing a
bias in the TC frequency.
I'll admit I'm a bit
biased, launching into this genre
with Dear Esther and Gone
Home under my belt years ago.
Whether we broach the perimeters of exploratory physics at CERN or try to reconcile logic
with mental illness and addiction at
home, human life seems incapable of shaking its
biases, coping mechanisms and eccentricities.
Spencer has recently made a big deal of his latest opus not getting published by his first venue of choice, only his second,
with all sorts of dark hints about
bias, but the reality is a high percentage of papers have to search for a
home, nothing unusual about this at all.
Certainly if you look at blog discourse virtually anywhere on the net, you would see that to be the prevailing pattern — not withstanding the possibility that beneath the surface of responding to ad
home with another ad hom, someone is examining for their own
biases at a deeper level (or that those two outcomes need to be mutually exclusive).
The appellant, who was self - represented on appeal, argued that the trial judge was
biased and that she had erred in nearly all of her conclusions
with respect to child support, spousal support, the sale of the matrimonial
home, etc..
We join forces to change hurtful relations at
home and at work, cope
with a sense of emptiness, depression, anger, self destructive tendencies, and overcome cultural, and gender
biases.
Missing data for longitudinal analysis (
HOME Inventory, maternal health, depression, social support, stressful life events, family functioning and experience of being a mother) were dealt
with using a three - step procedure to provide a balance between maintaining study power and minimising
bias in parameter estimates.27 28 First, participants who had not completed any data points for these outcomes were deleted from analysis.
Early research examining overprotective and critical parenting focused on retrospective reports from adults
with anxiety and depression, leading to potentially
biased reports.12 More recently, researchers have used observational methods to assess parental overprotection and negativity.13 Observational methods however, are not without problems, as parents may behave more positively when being observed in a research laboratory or at
home.
That training and the subsequent
home visits have been identified in a recent study by RTI International as an effective strategy for increasing teachers» sense of empathy and reducing their negative implicit
biases, as well as helping parents to feel more positive and confident about interacting
with school officials.
So far from these topics being off - limits, any MHP seeking appointment in a court case needs to fully inform the parties prior to their consent [123], of information about the following kinds of potentials for
bias and agenda: whether the MHP has been married or divorced, and how many times, and under what kinds of circumstances, and how the MHP currently feels about those events; whether, if divorced, the MHP went through litigation over custody or property, and such details as whether the MHP had problems paying or receiving child support, as well as the custody arrangements of the MHP's own children and how these worked out and everyone's feelings about them; the MHP's own personal experience taking care of and spending time
with children, within and without the scope of «parenting», and
with regard to parenting, whether that was parenting as a primary caregiver, married or single parent,
with or without household and third party help, or as a working parent or stay -
home parent, and for how many children, and for how long, and the outcomes from all of that; i.e. how much time has this person actually spent caring for children on his or her own, and how well did this person's own family systems function, and is this person in fact an «expert» in creating a functioning family and raising happy, healthy, successful children
with good outcomes, nay «best» outcomes, thoroughly well - adjusted and having reached the very pinnacles of their innate potential.