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Over What Time Period Should I Sell My LinkedIn Shares?

Qian Liu, PhD — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:36:10 +0000

The lock-up at my company (LinkedIn) has come off, and I’m thinking about how to invest the proceeds from selling some of my shares. Is there an optimal strategy for investing my money into an asset allocation? Should I suddenly buy all at once or over a period of time? Psychologically, dollar cost averaging might […]

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Yelp Joins IPO Parade

Elizabeth MacBride — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:31:38 +0000

This week saw two tech IPOs and news of one more in the offing, Yelp’s. If you’re one of those employees at a company that’s gone public or is preparing to go public, you may end up with options that are suddenly worth a lot of money, and facing questions about whether to exercise your […]

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9 Investment Mistakes To Guard Against, According to the Library of Congress

Elizabeth MacBride — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:32:44 +0000

After many decades of public health campaigns, Americans know the sure-fire ways they can sabotage their health. Smoke. Eat too much. Be a couch potato.

Last year, the SEC asked the Library of Congress to survey the universe of research into investor behavior to come up with a similar list of ways that investors screw up.

Surprisingly, the evidence was clear-cut against nine specific practices, many of which are commonly, often implicity, promoted by the financial services industry and the media that covers it.

According to the Library of Congress, these are the nine most common investing mistakes (In some cases, the links below are to subscription sites, as some of the research is not available online for free.)

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