“The Market” did this or “The Market” did that! The market is overvalued; the market is undervalued! What’s “The Market”? Ah ha! A very good question!!
DRIPs cause you to build a position in one company stock - that is concentration not diversification. In investing, concentration is our enemy and diversification is our friend.
In fact, low growth countries had slightly higher average returns than high growth countries, although this return difference was not reliably different from zero. In other words, there is no evidence that this return difference occurred by anything other than random chance.
Great idea: Act now to set your children on the path to have approximately $1.5M tax free at age 65. Savings from summer jobs starting at age 10 totaling just $17,100 by age 29 can set your children on a wonderful retirement plan.
Q2 2016 is in the books. It was a reasonable quarter in the markets. Most asset classes were modestly up and a few were down. There's no evidence of the market volatility in the last week of the quarter, down then up, after the surprise "Brexit" vote results.
In two hypothetical situations investors finished thirty years of 401(k) saving and investing with $208,000 to $762,000 less than what they could have had by avoiding various types of mistakes.
One of the many great attributes of my family is that the vast majority of the time we do not take ourselves too seriously individually or as a family. Life is too short, isn’t it?
Do you ever listen to the news and find yourself thinking that the world has gone to the dogs?So here’s an alternative news bulletin:Over the last 25 years, 2 billion people globally have moved out of extreme poverty....read more
I noticed at the end of May, that small stocks were in favor for a number of days almost every day over the large stocks indices of S&P500 and Dow Jones. So just for fun I threw together a chart from Tuesday May 24 through Thursday June 2.
Dear Readers: I am looking into your eyes with the most sincere expression on my face and in my heart and I am saying and writing:“THERE IS NO DEBATE HERE!
Anyone building anything worthwhile for tomorrow needs to be able to describe that future in a clear way and even more important - a compelling way - in order for the team to be able to follow with passionate commitment to that future.
An analysis of 68 years of data shows that stock market returns 3 months after the bottom quartile of GDP reports do not differ significantly from the overall average.
As you look at the MSCI Emerging Markets Index from 1988 - 2015, it was down 13 of 28 years - geez - why would you bother with that? Let's take a look behind the numbers....
