Interviewed by Portfolioist

Featured in Portfolioist today.  Nanette Burns and I talk about how individual investors can beat institutional investors and hedge funds. You can read the entire interview  in the smart section of Portfolioist.com

 Individual Investors have some real advantages over Institutions. First, they can think with a time horizon of more than one year.

Individual investors are “better at identifying long term consumer trends than professionals.

Institutional Investors make a lot of the same mistakes individual investors do.

There are two ways he recommends someone new to investing can build a portfolio.

People with a negative net worth should be paying off their debt.