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Start with my latest for CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor below. The Whitledge Brief, my monthly newsletter on investing, planning, and behavioral finance, launches soon.

Your Client's Biggest Asset Isn't in Their Portfolio

A practical lifecycle-finance framework that treats human capital, a client's future earnings, as a core input to portfolio allocation, not age alone. Building on the work of Robert Merton.

The Whitledge Brief launches soon — the themes it will explore

Why your plan matters more than your portfolio

Planning decisions, not portfolio decisions, drive the outcomes that matter most. A recurring theme of The Brief.

The quiet decisions that compound

Evidence-based takes on markets, costs, and the small, unglamorous choices that build real wealth over decades.

What the classroom teaches about risk

Risk isn't volatility, and it isn't what the financial news tells you. How an economist separates signal from noise.