{"id":1911171,"date":"2014-02-04T10:02:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T04:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/?p=1911171"},"modified":"2014-03-05T11:31:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T06:01:55","slug":"investing-man-vs-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2014\/02\/04\/investing-man-vs-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Investing: Man vs Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A must read article at Priceonomics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2010, a Russian circus monkey named Lusha picked an investment portfolio that \u201coutperformed 94% of the country\u2019s investment funds\u201d to great acclaim. Given 30 blocks, each representing a different company, and asked \u201cWhere would you like to invest your money this year?\u201d, the chimp picked out 8 blocks. An editor from a Russian finance magazine commented that Lusha \u201cbought successfully and her portfolio grew almost three times.\u201d He suggested that \u201cfinancial whizz-kids\u201d be \u201csent to the circus\u201d instead of rewarded with large bonuses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Can your portfolio beat a blind-folded monkey, when adjusted by risk?<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/priceonomics.com\/how-well-do-blindfolded-monkeys-play-the-stock\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Well Do Blindfolded Monkeys Play the Stock Market?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A must read article at Priceonomics: In 2010, a Russian circus monkey named Lusha picked an investment portfolio that \u201coutperformed 94% of the country\u2019s investment funds\u201d to great acclaim. Given 30 blocks, each representing a different company, and asked \u201cWhere would you like to invest your money this year?\u201d, the chimp picked out 8 blocks. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1911261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3251],"class_list":["post-1911171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-your-money","tag-behavioral-finance","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1911261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}